Burn marks are serious defects that can occur during injection molding, and from the viewpoint of the molding engineer, are a problem that urgently needs to be solved. In the present study, a gas collection and component analysis system was used to determine the gas production mechanism during injection molding of PBT polymer. The relationship between the occurrence of burn marks, the injection speed and the gas production mechanism was investigated, and the following results were obtained.
1) The principal components in the collected gas were CO₂, CO, CH₄ and H₂.
2) When burn marks were observed, about 70% of the collected gas was CO₂.
3) It is thought that there are some important chemical reactions occur during the plastic molding process.
4) According to the characteristic of chemical reactions, it is inferred that the parts of metal in injection machine and mold have important effects on chemical reactions.
5) When the injection speed was higher, the chemical reaction that is related to the methanation was retarded.

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Desired properties for plastic materials used for optical lenses are high transparency, high refractive index, low birefringence, and good transcription. In the lens injection molding, in order to improve transparency, a good mold-release characteristic is required. In this study, the effect of mold surface treatment for injection molding of fluorene-based polyester (FBP) was evaluated by angle-of-contact measurement. And it is more desirable to use melted resin rather than water as the medium of angle-of-contact measurement.
Moreover, two kinds of surface treatment affecting the mold-release characteristic of FBP were found out from the result of lens injection molding. Moreover, the forming stability at the time of continuous molding was verified using the metallic mold coated on the surface.

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