New apprenticeship initiative to help support plastics industry

Posted on 21 Jan 2016 by Jonny Williamson

Industry technical compounder and recycler, Luxus and its partner plastics piping manufacturer, Polypipe have launched a Compounding Polymer Apprenticeship scheme to address the sectors skills shortage.

The first group of three apprentice technicians – Callum Ely (16), James Laurence (22) from Luxus, and Kamil Ostrowski (22) from Polypipe – have begun the new two-year, multi-site apprenticeship in polymer processing, delivered in partnership with training provider, Solutions4Polymers and funded by Cogent. L to R: Simon Thompson (quality manager, Luxus);…

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