本书是教育部高职高专规划教材，是按照教育部对高职高专人才培养工作的指导思想，在广泛吸取了多年来专业英语教学经验的基础上编写的。
全书共分为六大部分（PART A～PART F），内容包括高分子材料的基本知识（Introduction），塑料加工中的助剂（Plastics Additives）和各种树脂（Resins），橡胶加工中的配合剂（Rubber Compounding Ingredients）和各种生胶（Raw Rubbers）以及高分子材料的成型加工（Polymer Processing）。每课均由课文（Text），单词和词组（Words and Expressions，包括音标及解释），注释（Notes），练习（Exercises）和阅读材料（Reading Material）组成。每课的课文和阅读材料均可独立成篇，取自各种不同风格的专业文献资料。具有词汇量适中、覆盖面广的特点。另外，在附录部分专列了高分子材料专业名词术语表（Glossary of Polymer Engineering）以利于学生查阅。本书主要作为高职高专教材，也可为从事高分子材料加工及应用的专业技术人员参考。
本书是《高分子材料专业英语》的第二版，是高职高专高分子材料专业的专业英语教材。全书共分为六大部分（PART A～PART F），内容包括高分子材料的基本知识（Introduction），塑料添加剂（Plastics Additives）和各种树脂（Resins），橡胶配合剂（Rubber Compounding Ingredients）和各种生胶（Raw Rubbers）以及高分子材料的成型加工（Polymer Processing）。书后附有合成橡胶的命名（The Nomenclature of Synthetic Elastomers），高聚物缩写（Acronyms of Polymers）和高分子科学术语的词汇表（Glossary of Polymer Engineering）。
本书为高职高专院校高分子材料类专业师生使用教材，也可供从事高分子材料加工及应用的专业技术人员参考。
PART A Introduction
Unit 1 Polymer 1
[Reading Material] The Rise of Polymer Science 3
Unit 2 Classification of Polymers 5
[Reading Material] Polymer Architecture 8
Unit 3 Synthesis 11
[Reading Material] Techniques of Polymerization 15
Unit 4 Plastics, Rubber and Fiber 17
[Reading Material] The General Properties of Plastics 20
PART B Plastics Additives
Unit 1 Stabilizers 22
[Reading Material] Organic Stabilizers for Pipe 24
Unit 2 Plasticizers 26
[Reading Material] PVC Additives (1) 29
Unit 3 Lubricants 31
[Reading Material] PVC Additives (2) 33
PART C Resins
Unit 1 Polyethylene 35
[Reading Material] High Density Polyethylene 37
Unit 2 Polypropylene 40
[Reading Material] Nanometer Plastic 42
Unit 3 Polyvinyl Chloride 45
[Reading Material] What is PVC? (1) 47
Unit 4 Polystyrene 49
[Reading Material] What is PVC? (2) 51
Unit 5 Phenolics 53
[Reading Material] Future 15 Years in Prospect of Chemical Construction Material 55
Unit 6 Epoxy Resins 57
[Reading Material] Plastics and the Environment 59
PART D Rubber Compounding Ingredients
Unit 1 General Introduction 61
[Reading Material] Importance of Rubber 64
Unit 2 Rubbers 66
[Reading Material] Other Types of Rubbers 69
Unit 3 Vulcanizing System 71
[Reading Material] Other Types of Vulcanizing Agents 74
Unit 4 Antidegradants 76
[Reading Material] The Ageing of Rubber Vulcanizates 79
Unit 5 Fillers 81
[Reading Material] IRHD and Shore A Scales 85
Silica Used in Tires 85
PART E Raw Rubbers
Unit 1 Natural Rubber 87
[Reading Material] Natural Rubber (Polyisoprene) 89
Unit 2 Butadiene Rubber 90
[Reading Material] Difference of NR and IR 93
Unit 3 E-SBR 94
[Reading Material] Polymerization of E-SBR 97
Unit 4 Acrylonitrile-Butadiene Rubber 98
[Reading Material] General Types of NBR 100
Unit 5 Chloroprene Rubber 102
[Reading Material] Rubber Compounding Rules (1) 105
Unit 6 Butyl Rubber 108
[Reading Material] Rubber Compounding Rules (2) 111
Unit 7 Ethylene-Propylene Rubber 114
[Reading Material] Surface Bloom of Rubber 116
PART F Polymer Processing
Unit 1 Extrusion 119
[Reading Material] Extrusion 122
Unit 2 Molding 124
[Reading Material] Rotational, Fluidized-Bed and Slush Molding 126
Unit 3 Rubber Processing 128
[Reading Material] Processing Rubber 131
AppendixⅠ The Nomenclature of Synthetic Elastomers 134
Appendix Ⅱ Acronyms of Polymers 137
Appendix Ⅲ Glossary of Polymer Engineering 140
Vocabulary 150
Bibliography 164
