PMBTECH403 Test fibre-composites materials and laminates

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for PMBTECH403 ended on 16 February 2021 — 5 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 18 February 2022 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
PMB — Plastics, Rubber and Cablemaking
Currency period ends
16 February 2021
Latest release
Release 1 · 22 June 2016
Supersedes
PMBTECH403B
Superseded by
PMBTECH403E equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. PMBTECH403Superseded — equivalentTest fibre-composites materials and laminates
  2. equivalent
  3. PMBTECH403ECurrentTest thermoset composite laminates and materials

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • PMBTECH403BPMBTECH403equivalent21 June 2016

    Supersedes and is equivalent to PMBTECH403B Test fibre-composites materials and laminates

  • PMBTECH403PMBTECH403Eequivalent17 February 2021

    PMBTECH403E Test thermoset composite laminates and materials supersedes and is equivalent to PMBTECH403 Test fibre-composites materials and laminates

Is PMBTECH403 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether PMBTECH403 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

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Where PMBTECH403 is used

training.gov.au lists PMBTECH403 inside 4 training products, 1 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for PMBTECH403 in that product.

Current products 1 listed

CodeTraining productTypePMBTECH403 is
MSM40116Certificate IV in Process ManufacturingQualificationelective

Products no longer current 3 listed

The register still records PMBTECH403 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypePMBTECH403 is
PMB40116Certificate IV in Polymer TechnologyQualificationelective
PMB50116Diploma of Polymer TechnologyQualificationelective
PMB60116Advanced Diploma of Polymer TechnologyQualificationelective

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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