Thermoplastic Materials

When 4-6 November 2013 Where Cockcroft Building, University of Brighton Cost Standard fee £750 for the three day course. Contact us at traininganddevelopment@brighton.ac.uk or call us on +44 (0)1273 643577 for details of fees when two or more delegates are attending from the same organisation.

The course

A three-day short course for those wishing to learn about commodity, engineering and high performance plastics which will give participants knowledge of their nature, properties, design and use applications. The course will benefit both those new to the subject or those who wish to extend their existing knowledge of plastic product design, plastics materials, polymer processing or who are working in a polymer product design related area. This course has been approved for professional development by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

The course assumes no prior knowledge and will benefit and interest managers, designer makers, product designers, production engineers and those involved in polymer product supply and sourcing, QA assessment of polymer products, management of polymer product development projects and processors, setters and manufacturers of polymer products, etc.

Course content

Day 1

Commodity Plastics: the nature of plastics materials - polyolefines, syrinic polymers, PVC based polymers and acrylics.

Day 2

Engineering Plastics: the definition of an engineering polymer and the nature, properties, use applications processing and design requirements of a number of polymers including polyamides, polyesters, POM and PPO materials, polysulphones and polyurethanes.

Day 3

High Performance Plastics: the definition of a high performance polymer and the nature, properties, use applications, design and processing requirements of polymers, including polyamides, LCP materials and PEEK materials. High performance inhection mould construction and moulding machines, PTFE based materials and technology.

Course tutor

The course is delivered by Peter Cracknell, who is highly knowledgeable and very experienced in polymer technology, having been employed in industry and academia. He taught polymer engineering, tool design and polymer processing at the London School of Polymer Technology and was academic leader responsible for short courses, consultancy and industrial project management. He has been involved with many polymer projects, including product development, failure analysis, re-cycling, tool design and development and knowledge transfer partnership programmes.

Peter now runs his own company (PSC Associates Ltd) providing polymer consultancy, expert witness and on-site training services, within the polymer industries in the UK and overseas.

For further details of the course content please email Peter.

Download course leaflet 754 KB pdf