Plastics Training Online Launches New Subscription Model for Workplace Training Courses

Education provider Plastics Training Online, in partnership with North American providers Paulson Training and Certus, has radically overhauled its online training course model. The changes make a wide range of polymer and factory training courses available and affordable for individuals, small businesses, and corporate clients through a new and simplified subscription model.

Plastics Training Online provides online training courses, powered by Paulson Training, with over 40 years of experience and 50,000 successful trainees. With skill shortages and worker shortages being a topic of growing concern amongst the plastics industry and wider engineering sectors, Plastics Training Online is delighted to announce changes to its training provision, aimed at increasing access to a wide range of potential trainees.

Self-Paced Online Training

The Paulson online courses provided by Plastics Training Online are designed not to replace time-served experience, but instead to provide a solid foundation of knowledge for new staff members, or as repeatable top-ups for existing team members.

With pre- and post-training assessments, employers can keep full visibility on each student’s progress on every training course, all of which are self-paced, to suit the needs of each trainee.

The courses are a valuable complementary tool to existing training, and fit easily into a manufacturer’s staffing schedules, without relying on management or experienced staff spending time training others directly. Instead, learners can spend a couple of hours on a self-paced course, rewind materials and videos when necessary, or repeat any modules giving them trouble. With features like interactive troubleshooting and machine simulations, the courses provide tangible feedback to decisions, building a trainee’s knowledge and confidence over time.

Flexible Subscriptions for a Wide Range of Processes

Plastics Training Online offers a wealth of over 40 training courses, with programmes covering manufacturing fundamentals, injection moulding, extrusion, PET-ISBM, thermoforming and a variety of other factory-focused courses, such as electrical systems, mechanical systems and plastics AI.

Traditionally, one training course purchase was directly linked with one trainee by their email address, tightly controlling the number of individuals able to access training materials. But the new subscription model from PTO is different, enabling flexibility to meet the needs of modern businesses.

“Think Netflix passwords, shared between a family”, says Ben Sutch, Director of Plastics Training Online. “Our new model is designed for flexibility, and the reality of changeable workforces and shift patterns. Purchasing a training subscription to PTO gives you a ‘seat’ on the training course, which can then be rotated around between multiple members of the same team.

“This is a much-needed modernisation of workplace training courses. All courses are a self-service model, with online payment, instant activation and no minimum term. For larger companies, we give discounts for subsequent licence purchases, or a single licence would be sufficient for an individual learner or an SME with a small team of trainees.”

With the modernisation of its training model, Plastics Training Online is making top-quality training courses available to more learners, for a more affordable price. With month-by-month billing and no minimum period, businesses can be agile and adapt to changes, without being locked into costly, long-term agreements.

Four Simple-to-Understand Tiers

• Free – includes the ‘Injection Moulding Fundamentals’ course for a free introduction to the system
• Lite – adds the 5-course injection moulding module, and a basic electronics and electricity course
• Pro – includes 9 specialised injection moulding courses, 4 extrusion courses, 2 thermoforming courses and a PET-ISBM course
• Enterprise – covers all training content, including all previous courses, plus SkillBuilder Labs, SimTech Discovery Labs, and over 30 factory training courses on electrical and mechanical systems

To contrast and compare each package, as well as view prices and other optional additions, visit the Plastics Training Online website here: https://plastics.training/pages/pricing

Limited Time Discount for PlastikMedia Readers

To celebrate the launch of the new training packages, Plastics Training Online are offering a discount code for any bookings made before the end of 2025.

For 50% OFF your first month of the Lite, Pro or Enterprise training packages, please enter code “PLASTIKCITY50” at the online checkout. Or to receive 20% off every month, you can opt for a yearly subscription.

To learn more about the training courses offered by Plastics Training Online, including optional modules, or custom-built training packages to suit your business, visit the Plastics Training Online website, or email Ben Sutch directly at ben@plastics.training.

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