Ketaspire - PEEK - Solvay Specialty Polymers

Kunststoffe international, 2007-10-21, Polyaryletherketones (PAEK)
...in the US. They plan to have a full scale production unit go on stream with a capacity of 500t/a by first quarter 2008 [1]; for reasons of existing infrastructure, this plant will be located in India. Solvay’s product range is twofold: KetaSpire and AvaSpire. KetaSpire includes unfilled, glass- and carbon-filled grades of PEEK in two melt viscosities and is quite similar in performance to equivalent Victrex PEEK grades. The AvaSpire product range is PEEK-based blends of proprietary composition, ...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, Polyaryletherketones (PAEKs)
...d injection molding; powder and fine powder grades are also included. In early 2006, Solvay''s Advanced Polymers Division acquired the PEEK manufacturing business of Gharda Chemicals whereupon Solvay entered the market with two products. KetaSpire is a PEEK available in two melt viscosities, unreinforced and reinforced with glass fiber or carbon fiber. The second product line is sold under the name AvaSpire. AvaSpire products are PEEK-based, patent-protected blends, which are also availa...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Polyaryletherketone (PAEK)
... end of 2011. Dolder AG, Basel, Switzerland, has taken over the European marketing of Evonik Industries’ Vestakeep PEEK polymers. The Belgian chemical company Solvay S.A., Brussels, is also intending to expand its capacity. Solvay manufactures its KetaSpire and AvaSpire PEEK grades in the USA and India. In the German speaking regions Solvay markets its products via the raw material trading company B. Bigler AG, Zug, Switzerland. Europe Remains the Most Important Market Europe is still the larges...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Polyaryletherketones (PAEK)
...issioned in 2015, raising capacity by 70 % to 7,000 t/a. The key raw materials are produced at other sites in Great Britain, uniquely providing Victrex with a largely integrated supply chain.Solvay SA of Brussels, Belgium – with the products KetaSpire PEEK and AvaSpire PAEK, and also the biocompatible Zeniva (PEEK) – announced at the end of 2012 plans raising the capacity by approximately 70 %; the starting capacity of its production plant in Mumbai, India, was around 500 t/a. Evonik AG of Essen...