Australian Apprenticeship Training Support Payment (AATSP)

• Employers receive Priority Hiring Incentive of $2500 (was $5000) (THIS IS NEW)
• Apprentices receive $2500 paid over 1st and 2nd years of the apprenticeship (THIS IS NEW)

Key Apprenticeship Program Employer Incentive (KAP)

The regime for the KAP incentive system remains as it was set in July 2024:

• Employers receive $5000
• Apprentices receive $10000

Your Apprentice Connect Australia Provider (ACAP or sign-up people) will go over your eligibility for these incentives.

Learn more here: https://www.apprenticeships.gov.au/home/financial-supports-australian-apprentices-and-their-employers-continue-1-january-2026

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12-14 March 2025, Bitec, Bangkok, Thailand

• Expo Brochure
• Booth Booking Form
• Exhibitor List
• Visitor Registration Form

RotoMoulding Training:

12-14 March 2025, Bitec, Bangkok, Thailand

Co-located with “RotoMoulding Trade Expo 2025”, these four courses are aimed for process engineers, technical managers and business owners of rotational moulding processes.

• Rotomoulded Tanks: Design, Manufacturing & Quality Control
  12 March 2025, 10am-5pm, Speaker: Ian Hansen, Australia
• Rotomoulding Raw Materials: Quality & Management
  13 March 2025, 10am-1pm, Speaker: Ian Hansen, Australia
• Best Practices to Operate RotoMoulding Businesses Efficiently
  13 March 2025, 2pm-5pm, Speaker: Ian Hansen, Australia
• Rotational Moulding: Process Troubleshooting
  14 March 2025, 10am-1pm, Speaker: Umakant Savdekar, India

More information (PDF)

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This Association was incorporated in Queensland on 5th July 1984 under the Associations Incorporation Act 1981.

The advancement of the industry’s polymer technology training is the primary function of this Association.

Our key enabling strategies are short courses and apprenticeships, and we advise government training policy development.

In this industry, an apprenticeship is an educational program aiming to improve the enterprise capability and to help the business grow and prosper.

This is my opportunity to thank both the Queensland State Government and all the members of the Queensland Plastics Industry, and our allied industry friends.

James Hunter
Chairman of QPITC,
December 2024.

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The Rodger Wolfe Achievement Award will be presented to a high achiever Composites Technician who works at Riviera Australia, and who graduated from Partec Institute Composites Training Centre in 2024.

Zidane Zinedine Farkas completed his apprenticeship with the Gold Coast based internationally famous boat manufacturer Riviera Australia, and it is a noteworthy coincidence that his surname is the same as the Czechoslovakian “Farkush”  for wolf, and so it is fitting that he gets the Rodger Wolfe award.

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• $2,000 at 6 months and $3,000 at 12 months (full-time)
• $1,000 at 6 months and $1,500 at 12 months (part-time)

Learn more about the Priority Hiring Incentive

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All of our Plastic and Composites apprenticeships are now classed as occupations which can work in the clean energy business.

This means that if you work on solar power, bioenergy, wind power, battery storage, geothermal, etc, then the apprentice (not the employer), can claim up to $10,000 in support during the apprenticeship.

See Clean Energy Apprenticeships Program

The ‘sign up’ contractors (Australian Connect Australia Providers – ACAP) have been designated as your advisors for this bonus.

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FSAE is a worldwide program.

Find our more about the 2024 SEA Australasia Competition here:
https://www.saea.com.au/fsaea-2024

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However, for smaller regional cities and towns, who may choose to collect and reprocess used plastics, the bulk reprocessing is not feasible.

The University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) in Toowoomba, is well advanced in a Commonwealth Government funded program to develop strategies which are suited to regional situations. The UniSQ program is known as the SURF-NO WASTE Pilot Precinct program.

The PARTEC Institute (Plastics Training Centre) is a collaborator with UniSQ in this project. PARTEC is co-funding and developing a plastic reprocessing system “post-MRF” (Mechanical Recycling Facility) which will be feasible for regional towns.

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• PMB30121 Certificate III in Polymer Processing;
• PMB40121 Certificate IV in Polymer Technology; and
• PMB50121 Diploma of Polymer Technology.

In Queensland, the PMB30121 and PMB40121 qualifications cover all of the Government-funded plastics apprenticeships like Composites Technician, Extrusion Technician and Injection Moulding Technician.

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