Loss of knowledge is an acute threat to companies. The crucial question is how existing knowledge and new technologies can be harnessed as a corporate resource. A major problem facing industry is retaining knowledge within the company, in particular in times of acceleration of innovation. Moreover, in industrial research there is an unmistakable shift from generating knowledge and solving problems by experimental work towards detecting, selecting and absorbing knowledge from the external knowledge infrastructure and adapting it to specific situations. This book contributes a great deal to preserving and critically evaluating knowledge in the field of the analytics of polymer additives. Additives play a leading role in the success of commercial plastics, elastomers, rubbers, coatings and adhesives. Without additives, many polymers would simply be of limited use.