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BENEFITS
  • Held on your premises with the seminars timed for your convenience.
  • SPE selects seminar instructors who are recognized experts in the field. Our faculty members are drawn from both industry and academia and bring many years of practical and theoretical experience to the program.
  • Presentations focus on your organizations' needs with information to be applied to your plant operation. The instructors take the time to know your company.
  • This format allows for a free exchange of ideas and problem exploration.
  • Less time lost from the job with personnel on-site and still available for plant operational needs.
  • Considerable savings by paying only for the instructor's travel expenses, rather than for your personnel.
SEMINAR COSTS

The In-Plant Seminar fees are structured and priced according to the number of days the seminar is presented. The price list explains fees and areas of responsibility. The one-day prices break down to the equivalent of training 11 employees while the two-day and three-day prices break down to the equivalent of training 10 employees at our standard seminar rates, exclusive of their travel costs (also the amount of time the employee is away from the plant), which at today's prices could run into several thousand dollars in additional expenses.


One-Day Presentation: $6,000.00*
Includes cost of presentation for up to 15 attendees, instructor's honorarium fee, course manuals and shipping of manuals and certificates of completion for attendees. However, this does not include the instructor's transportation expenses (airfare, transportation to and from either airport), hotel accommodations, meals, audio visual equipment, textbooks (if any), refreshments and miscellaneous expenses.

Two-Day Presentation : $7,500.00*
Includes cost of presentation for up to 15 attendees, instructor's honorarium fee, course manuals and shipping of manuals and certificates of completion for attendees. However, this does not include the instructor's transportation expenses (airfare, transportation to and from either airport), hotel accommodations, meals, audio visual equipment, textbooks (if any), refreshments and miscellaneous expenses.

Three-Day Presentation: $9,500.00
Includes cost of presentation for up to 15 attendees, instructor's honorarium fee, course manuals and shipping of course manuals and certificates of completion for attendees. However, this does not include the instructor's transportation expenses (airfare, transportation to and from either airport), hotel accommodations, meals, audio visual equipment, textbooks (if any), refreshments and miscellaneous expenses.

* Additional attendees over 15 at $100.00 per person
Extensive modification of the seminar can incur additional charges



Areas of Responsibility:
SPE staff schedules with the client and the speaker, provides a letter of confirmation with speaker audio visual requirements, arranges overnight accommodations for the speaker, supplies all course materials and seminar evaluation forms and textbooks (if any), and invoices client after the in-plant is presented and provides attendees with certificates of completion. The client provides a signed confirmation, a suitable meeting room, audio-visual requirements, lunch and refreshment breaks (if desired), and information on local hotel and directions to and from the airport, to hotel and the plant.

Discounts apply if two seminars are presented consecutively
These prices apply to in-plant programs presented in the continental U.S. only.
Shipping Charges for manuals & course materials outside of the continental U.S. are the responsibility of the client.
IN-PLANT SEMINAR TITLES
Seminars are listed by technology/SPE Division

Following is a list of our in-plant seminar offerings. Seminars are listed by technology/SPE Divisions. These seminars are offered publicly through the SPE Seminar Program before they are promoted for inplant training. SPE carefully evaluates and monitors the instructor and class responses in order to provide the industry with quality presentations. SPE Seminar Instructors are experts in their field, drawn from both industry and academia and bring many years of practical and theoretical experience to the SPE Seminar Program.

Also included is detailed content information on each seminar including the seminar title, number of days the seminar is offered, purpose and overview of the seminar, instructor's biography, and a course outline.
# of days offered Seminar Title/Instructors Name
 
  COLOR & APPEARANCE
2 days Plastics Color Science, Pigments & Color Matching Workshop - Robert Charvat
 
  ENGINEERING PROPERTIES & STRUCTURE
2 days Crystallization and Mechanical Behavior of Polymers - Pravin Soni
1 day Fundamentals of Plastics Materials and Processes - Jean-Michael Charrier
2 days Plastic Materials, Processing and Applications - Jean-Michel Charrier
2 days Practical Applications for Melt Rheology in Polymer Processing  - Pravin Shah
1 day Principles of Polymer Blending and Alloying  - Donald Witenhafer
 
  EXTRUSION
2 days Die Design Principles for Extrusion of Polymers  - Leonard Sansone
2 days Extrusion of Engineering Plastics - Simplified for Manufacturing and Process Engineers  - Pravin Shah
1 day Co-Extrusion Principles and Practices   - Eldridge Mount
2 days Twin Screw Extrusion Technology  - Adam Dreiblatt
 
  INJECTION MOLDING
2 days A Virtual Workshop on Injection Molding Troubleshooting  - Robert Beard
2 days Injection Molding Technology  - William Frizelle
1 day Injection Mold Tooling Standards  - William Tobin
2 day Purchasing and Quoting - Bob Beard
 
  MOLD MAKING & MOLD DESIGN
2 days Mold Design and Mold Building  - Robert Dealey
 
  PRODUCT DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
1 day Snap-fits, Press-fits and Welding of Plastics  - Jordan Rotheiser
 
  THERMOFORMING
1 day Testing of Plastics - Its Application to Thermoforming  - Donald Hylton
1 day Thermoforming Design for Designers for Thin and Heavy Gage Products  - Robert Browning
2 or 3 days Thermoforming Technology for Industrial Applications  - William McConnell
1 day Thermoforming Tooling  - Arthur Buckel
 
  THERMOPLASTIC MATERIALS & FOAMS
1 day Thermoplastics Elastomers  - Vivian Malpass
 
  VINYL PLASTICS
2 days Versatile Vinyl Plastics: Formulating, Processing, Properties and Applications  - Leonard Krauskopf
2 days PVC Melt Rheology-Theory and Practical Applications in Melt Processing  - Pravin Shah

GENERAL INFORMATION

Engineers and technicians are faced with constant technological challenges. The best way to keep them at the forefront of their fields in order to meet these challenges is through a program of continuing education. And one of the most effective and efficient ways to do this is through in-plant training. SPE is a recognized leader in providing training for the plastics industry. SPE can help you meet the training needs of your company with a quality in-plant seminar program.

Seminars are listed by technology/SPE Divisions. These seminars are offered publicly through the SPE Seminar Program before they are promoted for inplant training. SPE carefully evaluates and monitors the instructor and class responses in order to provide the industry with quality presentations. SPE Seminar Instructors are experts in their field, drawn from both industry and academia and bring many years of practical and theoretical experience to the SPE Seminar Program.

By conducting an SPE In-Plant Seminar your company can realize considerable savings by paying the travel expenses for just one person, the instructor, and receive a presentation focused to address your company's needs.

Inplant Seminars can be scheduled in as little as three weeks, depending on the instructor's availability. SPE has provided inplant training to companies in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and even Russia. Class size can be as small as 6 people, or up to as large as 50 people.

Seminars can be customized to your company's needs, but if customization is extensive, such as considerable modification of the seminar, additional charges can be incurred.

What is the process of scheduling an inplant?
The client contacts SPE with the seminar of interest and anticipated timing of seminar to be presented. SPE will contact the instructor to check availability. If the instructor is not available, the instructor will call the client to discuss alternate dates. If the instructor is available, definite dates will be verified verbally to all parties.

SPE will send a letter of confirmation and agreement to the client for request of signature and a purchase order. The instructor will make airfare reservations at the best available rate. SPE will make the instructor's hotel reservation at lodging recommended by the client. SPE will provide the client with audio-visual needs and instructor requirements. SPE will ship all course materials to the client at least three business days prior to the scheduled date of the seminar.

SPE will invoice the client after the seminar is presented to the client. SPE will provide certificates of completion to attendees, upon request.

The client provides a signed confirmation and purchase order, number of people attending, a suitable meeting room with audio-visual for instructor, times seminar is scheduled, detailed directions to the location of the seminar, suggestions for instructor's overnight stay, dress guidelines for the instructor, refreshments to attendees, if desired, and payment of inplant seminar. The client also distributes course materials to attendees and returns completed attendee evaluations to SPE with a final attendee list.

If an individual from your company would like to attend and evaluate the seminar prior to scheduling an inplant seminar, they may do so. If your company is then interested in scheduling an inplant seminar per their review, we will deduct the individual's seminar fee from the balance of the inplant seminar. Our seminar schedule can be located on our website.

If you have any questions, or are interested in scheduling an SPE In-Plant Training Seminar, please contact me at my direct line at +1 203-775-8490, or e-mail me at  lmccarthy@4spe.org

Thank you.

Lauren McCarthy
Events Coordinator