Invibio Biomaterial Solutions, a Victrex company, designates their implant grade as PEEK-Optima™, and Solvay brands their implantable product Zeniva® PEEK.ĭrake offers a complete family of PEEK stock shapes, from unreinforced and enhanced bearing and wear grades to glass and fiber-reinforced formulations in the industry’s widest range of sizes.ĭepending on the specific grade of resin used, Drake Plastics applies the Victrex® PEEK or the Solvay KetaSpire® PEEK brands to its optimum quality extruded shapes. More recent developments in PEEK polymers by Victrex PLC and Solvay include biocompatible grades for human implantable and non-implantable life-sciences applications, as well as grades with higher temperature capabilities. The KetaSpire® PEEK product family is also typically melt-processed by extrusion and injection molding and serves numerous industries and applications in the form of molded parts, and extruded stock shapes that are machined into precision components, and extruded film and tube. Commercialized under the designation KetaSpire® PEEK, Solvay’s family of grades includes formulations with performance enhancements for greater wear resistance and structural strength. in the early 2000s and also actively developed products for severe service applications in a range of industries.
Solvay began production of PEEK resin in the U.S. Opening these processing alternatives further expanded PEEK’s range of applications and the industries in which the material is specified. Its relatively easy melt-processability also led to adaptations of PEEK resin for diverse processing methods including injection molding, compression molding, and extrusion of fibers, pipe, tubing, film and machinable stock shapes. Enhanced performance grades include formulations with improved bearing and wear properties and with glass and carbon fiber reinforcement that significantly increases PEEK’s structural strength.
These opportunities led to development of PEEK materials that serve a broader range of applications.
With the proliferation of parts specified in Victrex® PEEK and engineers’ growing awareness of the material’s capabilities, new application possibilities emerged that were beyond the performance limits of the initial grades. The company’s application development efforts span more than 40 years and have led to the widespread use of PEEK for components in aerospace, oil and gas exploration and production, semiconductor manufacturing, medical and military and defense equipment. Since the commercial introduction of PEEK in 1980, Victrex PLC has become its leading producer and supplies the ultra high-performance thermoplastic worldwide from its operations in the UK.
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