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NEW EMAIL FOR ALL SEMINAR/CONSULTING REQUESTS:
bims.seminars@gmail.com

Vito LEO consulting services

After retiring from Solvay in February 2021, Vito is now offering consulting services in addition to his classical training courses.
A few major companies are alredy taking advantage of this offer. Currently MS-Teams distant sessions are the easiest and safest, but onsite meetings are now coming back strongly.
We offer spot help (as low as a single hour session) all the way to long term support, with anything in between. You don't have to commit and can end the collaboration when you prefer/decide.

Get in touch via mail or messaging on LinkedIn or Whatsapp (+32475556198) for fee details or other enquiries.

ONLINE COURSES CLICK HERE TO CHECK THE ONLINE PLATFORM

Please register on the platform to see courses and check the free introductory videos. We also have a completely free course for you to check the quality and style of teaching.
On the ONLINE platform you will now have the opportunity to buy both the BIMS-1 and/or BIMS-2 bundles .

We also have, on sale on this platform, the complete collection of my Technical Articles published on LinkedIn over the years. Check the table of content for free and see if you are interestd. We have about 185 articles over 250 pages !

If you are in India or possibly other areas of typically lower income, please enquire with us about possible rebates to the ONLINE courses that will apply to you.
We often promote the courses through a discount "coupon".
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Quick update _ Latest news

We have now a BIMS-0 seminar, a one day session introducing plastics to non-experts, already presented in private and public settings in the last few years. This is a perfect seminar for newcomers to the plastics world. So if you are hiring people with lowish prior knowledge of plastics, this will be a perfect intro for them.
It is also the ideal preparation before taking the more advanced 2 days long BIMS1 or BIMS2 courses.

Year 2026 as been the worst business year for us in 25 years.
I am not sure if it is mostly about the current Economy/Geopolitical situation or if there is a more fundamental change in the world of technical training, possiblyalso linked to A.I.

While public sessions in Denmark attracted small groups this year 2026, I am glad to report that my public session in France was the largest ever. As you can see in the calendar below, I am also glad that this last quarter of 2026 has populated with a number of private sessions !
A few companies have also taken advantage of my consulting services this year.

Check the calendar below.

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Thank you to all participants and organizers. A particularly warm "Thank you" to Pernille BLOM from Teknologisk Videndeling, Cristoph Hinse from Simpatec Germany and Fabien Buchy from Simpatec France for their continuousefforts in making this venture a big success..

For German customers
It is not easy to attract people to "english speaking" seminars in Germany and a few other countries, but thanks to the efforts of the Simpatec team, offering also translated printouts to participants, we are slowly building-up our reputation in Germany and other German speaking countries.
To further help german speaking customers, PlasticsYOU GmbH just announced german spoken BIMS-1 to be presented in Germany this coming fall 2024 (Cristoph HINSE, presenter, Vito LEO in the room for Q&A or discussions). Check the schedule for future sessions in Germany or send an email to info@plasticsyou.com.

If you are in doubt about your ability to understand my English language, listen to me by clicking HERE, or watch some of the videos I publish regularly here (Click HOME in the menu above) or on LinkedIn (please join my network there !).

go straight to : SCHEDULE of coming sessions in 2026

Please note that private sessions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are managed by PlasticsYOU GmbH Germany. Contact them to schedule a training.

For all other public or private session, please contact us.
You can always pre-book by sending me a mail, or, for public sessions, getting directly in touch with organizers

Hope to see you at some coming seminar and please let know all your contacts or colleagues about these trainings. Don't hesitate to come again if you attended several years ago since we constantly update the material, and many returning attendants keep telling us they learned/understood new things by coming back again.

Vito

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The current agenda for 2025/2026 is the following

AGENDA end 2026

Also, keep an eye on our ONLINE training offer here : BIMS ONLINE COURSES info/preview

FRANCE	Oct. 27-28	SIMPATEC	BIMS 1 - French	PUBLIC SESSION
FINLAND	Nov. 10-11	ORAS Ltd	BIMS1 - English	PRIVATE SESSION
DENMARK	Nov. 24-25	NOVENCO	BIMS2 - English	PRIVATE SESSION
DENMARK	Dec. TBD	FOSS	BIMS2 - English	PRIVATE SESSION

We are always open to discuss possible additional private sessions trainings, anywhere, or new public sessions in other geographical areas than France, Denmark, Germany, Austria.

BIMS-0 : Introduction to Thermo-Plastics

BIMS-1 : Understanding Injection Molding of Thermoplastics :
The classical BIMS seminar now presented 178 times throughout the World

BIMS-2 : Understanding Mechanical Properties of Thermoplastics : NEW seminar on Mechanical Properties of Plastics, presented 50 times so far.