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Smithers Rapra Membership: for the Rubber and Plastics Industries

Membership Value Guarantee

Welcome to Smithers Rapra Membership
Privileged access to world-leading independent services

Smithers Rapra has been a trusted partner of the plastics and rubber industries for over 90 years. Supporting our clients and adding value throughout the life cycle of their products is at the very heart of what we do. So we are delighted to tell you about a new way in which you can make our specialist services work even harder for your organisation.

Smithers Rapra Membership allows you to work directly with our experts and access a combination of products, services and special benefits that will help you achieve your business objectives faster and with confidence.

Read on for details or download the Smithers Rapra Membership brochure
You can also call us for details on +44(0)1939 250383.

What's included in Smithers Rapra Membership?*

If you become a Smithers Rapra Member you'll have a unique combination of tools and expertise at your fingertips together with special Member discounts. You can draw on free technical consulting time and get advice on securing funding, take advantage of free expert training, access technical books and world-class research tools such as the Polymer Library and a choice of over 50 specialist polymer bulletins. You’ll even have a Personal Researcher who can do the hard work for you using our entire library and a network of industry experts to answer your questions. These product and services are only available direct from Smithers Rapra.

Special Member discounts

Special Member discounts on a range of technology products and services.

Technical consulting

Technical consulting: Understand and overcome technical challenges

  • Free technical consulting time with our experts in plastics, rubbers and composite materials.

Advice on funding, research and development opportunities

Advice on funding, research and development opportunities:
Support to help make your innovative ideas a reality

  • Our experts can help your organisation benefit from research and development initiatives funded via European, National and Local Government.

Expert training

Expert training: Educate new employees or develop existing staff

  • One free place at any of our expert-lead plastics and rubber training courses
  • Or two free passes to webinars of your choice from our 2012 programme.
Polymer Bulletin subscription

Polymer Bulletin subscription: Easily monitor trends, technology and competitors

  • Free twice-monthly electronic briefing. Choose from over 50 specialist titles
Polymer Library access

Polymer Library access: Turbocharge your research capabilities

  • With over one million abstracts, the Polymer Library is the largest dedicated resource of polymer information in the world and an unrivalled technical or market research tool.

Personal researcher

Personal researcher: Save time, let our researchers do the hard work

  • 16 hours of free personal researcher time. With access our entire library and a network of industry experts, our professional information experts will help answer your questions.
Technical books

Technical books: Invaluable guides to the latest technology at your fingertips

  • Choose from four special interest areas and select an online archive of 5-7 technical books with instant and searchable access.

For a print off and keep Membership summary, download brochure now

Join now – Becoming a Smithers Rapra Member is easy

Join now

Please call us on +44 (0)1939 250383 today and ask about Membership.

We'll talk you through the details and answer any questions you have.

We will assign you a dedicated membership account manager, organise billing and send you an e-welcome pack.