About Us
Latitude Yachts gathers together more than 200 high-class professionals to ensure excellent quality of each and every detail on board. Designers, naval architects, carpenters, painters, welders, managers work together and turn your dreams into reality.
We act responsively with full drive, because our team is capable of fulfilling any project at the highest level.
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Composites Education & Training
Since 2012 our company has started to educate and train workers for composite material application and all lamination processes.
Ask the production manager at a composite manufacturing what is the company’s biggest need. You are likely to hear skilled labor.
For example, only two of 10 new employees last out the probation period. The cost of in-house training can be thousands of euros per technician. While some formal education programs exist, they are too few to effectively meet the current need. Moreover, program depth and content are inconsistent, and most engineering school graduates have little to no exposure to composite materials.
As the use of composites continues to expand across a wide array of industries and new technologies are developed at a faster rate than ever before, our company is building yachts using newest technologies in composites manufacture and meantime we are educating and training new employees.
Our educational program includes trainings in all areas related to the production of high-quality composite products for a variety of tasks and customer needs, applicable to all areas of application, ranging from architectural products, boats and yachts and luxury mega-yachts.
Overview of training:
| Theoretical course | Training time, hours |
|---|---|
| Types of composite materials, features | 80 |
| Safety precautions and requirements for production facilities | 40 |
| Product manufacturing stages, logistics | 40 |
| Production of molds, Mold types | 40 |
| Epoxy and polyester resins, gelcoats, adhesives and paints, transportation features, manufacturers | 80 |
| Features of application, manufacturing, selection of fiberglass, roving, strength characteristics, principals of materials selection for special tasks | 80 |
| Theory of quality control at all stages of production | 40 |
| Practical course | |
| Production process of molds | 240 |
| Application of polyester gelcoats and resins, hand lamination, infusion | 240 |
| Epoxy materials: hand lamination, Sprint, Prepreg | 240 |
| PVC/Core materials cutting, grinding, Infusion process | 240 |
| Quality control, thickness measurements, product visual control, NDT testing methods | 80 |
| Correction of defects, repair of composite products | 160 |
Successful graduates receive a certificate confirming them as a Trained Composite Worker (TCW), with the recognition of being a qualified specialist and worker for the international industry.
Graduates are offered an internship with a probationary period and, subsequently, employment in our constantly developing company.