DEStech Publications, Inc. publishes original books, textbooks, CD-ROMs, eBooks, proceedings, and refereed journals in advanced technology and engineering. To specialist authors and editors in technical disciplines, DEStech Publications offers a combination of high-level editing, excellent review procedures, and royalties with state-of-the-art book and journal production and global marketing. For societies and conference organizers, DEStech produces custom books, CD-ROMs and flash drives for meetings and congresses worldwide...on time and on budget. DEStech currently develops and publishes in six main technical areas: advanced materials, food and packaging technology, environmental science, packaging technology, plastics/polymers, and reliability engineering. To authors and editors, DEStech offers a combination of high-level editing and review with state-of-the-art book and journal production and global marketing. For authors in science, engineering and technology, DEStech delivers what conglomerate publishers cannot: excellent editing by knowledgeable staff, help with figures and copyright, expedited book production, and significantly higher royalties. DEStech books and journals are marketed worldwide by an in-house marketing team with over 40 years experience in sci-tech book promotion. As a full-service contract publisher, DEStech is organized to meet the publishing needs of societies, conference organizers, and foundations. DEStech's staff of experts in electronic typesetting, book design, and CD-ROM/online technologies can deliver highly attractive customized publications for technical meetings and societies-on time and for less cost to you. In addition, DEStech can add the follow-on benefits of selling your group's publication worldwide, thus providing post-publication revenue. Contract publishing services include proceedings in print and electronic media; the full production and distribution of journals and newsletters in print and/or online, design and manufacture of custom publications such as specialty books for companies, directories, and yearbooks, and the marketing and sales of these products.