Transform your team with custom polymer training
If you are facing technical skill gaps across your plastics or rubber teams, Smithers 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 Smithers?
Smithers 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.
- Learn from seasoned polymer consultants who don’t just teach - they problem-solve, test, and innovate every day.
- 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 optimsation, 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
Ready to elevate your polymer knowledge?
Download our brochure to find out how the SCOPE | DESIGN | DELIVER process works.
Let Smithers design a training programme just for you.