OBJECTIVES:
To impart theoretical/ practical knowledge and skills in rubber manufacture, factory
management, quality improvement and market requirements
To prepare candidates towards obtaining professional membership of NIPM
To assist self and career development
METHODOLOGY:
Lectures, demonstrations, practical sessions, group discussions, presentations and
assessments.
COURSE CONTENT:
- General aspects of rubber industry
- Composition & preservation of latex
- Chemicals used in raw rubber processing.
- Latex weighing and metrolac reading.
- Drying towers & crepe rubber manufacture
- Smoking and smoke houses
- Ribbed smoked sheet (RSS) manufacture and their defects.
- Defects in sheet rubber manufacture
- Centrifuged latex
- Manufacture of rubber products
- Latex based products
- Dry rubber-based products.
- Value added grades/special grades.
- Rubber wood industry
- Technically specified rubber (TSR)
- Rubber discolorations
- Effluent treatment and disposal
- Defects in grading and packaging of rubber
- Domestic and global trends in marketing of rubber
- Quality management
- Rubber machinery and maintenance
- Cost control & labour deployment
- Occupational safety and health (OSH)
