Custom Plastic and Rubber Training
Targeted Training. Measurable Results. Build your team's plastics and rubber expertise with custom training designed around your materials, processes, and products. From one-off courses to tailored programmes, our expert-led training aligns with your technical challenges and business goals.
Transform Your Team with Custom Polymer Training
If you are facing technical skill gaps across your plastics or rubber teams, Smither can help. In addition to our scheduled courses, we offer customised training programmes designed specifically for organisations like yours — whether you are in manufacturing, R&D, quality control, or product development.
Why Choose Custom Training from Smither?
Smither has decades of experience in plastics and rubber material performance and science. Our training solutions are developed from an extensive knowledge of material testing, product testing, technical consultancy and industrial problem solving.
Tailored to your materials and challenges
Get training built around your specific polymers, elastomers, processes, and applications — guaranteed to be 100% relevant to your business.
Led by industry experts with real-world know-how
Learn from seasoned polymer consultants who don’t just teach — they problem-solve, test, and innovate every day.
Flexible delivery that fits your schedule
Choose in-person, online, or hybrid formats. Our team adapts to your timeline and workforce setup.
Tangible impact — faster onboarding and reduced errors
Upskill new hires, boost cross-departmental expertise, and troubleshoot in-house — so your teams work smarter. Making effective material, product and design development choices boosts end-product quality, reduces errors and failures.
Accredited and quality assured
All courses are IOM3 accredited and deliver CPD credits.
Future-proof support
Ongoing consultant-support, post-training reviews and more to ensure you meet your upskilling objectives now and in the future.
Increase employee engagement and retention, kick-start new teams
Building new skills increases employee confidence and job satisfaction. Time spent with colleagues helps build positive relationships and new team dynamics across your organisation.
What Topics and Subjects Can We Support?
We can help your team build critical materials expertise in a broad range of plastic and rubber areas including:
- Polymer selection, behaviour and durability
- Manufacturing optimisation, processing techniques and troubleshooting
- Specialised materials including silicones, polyurethanes, high temperature polymers
- Specific applications (from medical, food and consumer to industrial) regulatory requirements and testing standards
Our SCOPE | DESIGN | DELIVERprocess ensures every custom training programme is aligned to your organisation's goals, materials, and technical challenges.
Ready to Elevate Your Polymer Knowledge?
Let Smither design a training programme just for you. Contact our team to discuss your requirements and get started.
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