Plastics training course to begin

The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) will be holding an 'Introduction to Plastics' half-day training course in Sydney and Brisbane in March for the industry. Pierre Pienaar, a Fellow of the AIP, will be the course presenter, commencing in Sydney on Friday 7 March, and in Brisbane on Wednesday 26 March.

Those most likely to benefit from this course are employees from plastics manufacturers, plastics salespeople, plastics wholesalers and plastics end users from technical staff to line personnel.

The half-day course will present a precise, non-mathematical introduction to plastics, their raw materials, syntheses and applications, discussing the manufacture and properties of plastics as a function of the molecular properties of polymers used in the plastics industry.

The course will consist of the properties of the main classes of materials, on the principles of such processes as injection moulding, extrusion, blow moulding and thermoforming polymers. No previous experience will be assumed in the subject matter of the lectures.

For further information, visit www.aipack.com.au.