At the Seminar on 'Thermoplastic foams - innovative and practical processing methods' in Aachen, Germany, on June, 2001, organized by IKV, the following plenary lectures were given: Foaming and nucleating agents for thermoplastic foams (G.Luebke); Low-pressure injection molding (S. van der Steen); Fundamentals of the foaming process (O.Pfannschmidt); Studies of the foaming process by means of an optical device (S.Habibi-Naini); Application of digital imaging for foam structure identification (R.Peters); Machine technology for foamed film production (Tandem line) (J.Bothe, O.Deseke); Extrusion of polypropylene foamed films using CO2 as the foaming agent (R.Heinz); Micro-foam extrusion as a production process (M.Roemer); Direct gassing of the melt be means of an injection die (S.Habibi-Naini); Foam injection molding with chemical foaming agents (R.Benker); Foam injection molding with physical foaming agents (MuCell) (O.M.Becker); Thermoforming of multi-layered composites (J.Wirtz); Transforming of foamed films (H.A.Lochner).SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman