Whois & Analysis for victrex.com

Victrex plc is a British-based supplier of high performance polymer solutions.

It is a constituent of the FTSE 250.

The company’s headquarters and manufacturing facilities are based in the UK with technical and customer support facilities in multiple markets, serving more than 40 countries.

Victrex serves a diverse range of industries including aerospace, automotive, electronics, oil and gas and medical.

Polyketones are a family of high-performance thermoplastic polymers.

The polar ketone groups in the polymer backbone of these materials gives rise to a strong attraction between polymer chains, which increases the material's melting point (255 °C for copolymer (carbon monoxide ethylene), 220 °C for terpolymer (carbon monoxide, ethylene, propylene).

Trade names include Carilon, Karilon, Akrotek, and Schulaketon.

Such materials also tend to resist solvents and have good mechanical properties.

Unlike many other engineering plastics, aliphatic polyketones such as Shell Chemicals' Carilon are relatively easy to synthesize and can be derived from inexpensive monomers.

Carilon is made with a palladium(II) catalyst from ethylene and carbon monoxide.

A small fraction of the ethylene is generally replaced with propylene to reduce the melting point somewhat.

Shell Chemical commercially launched Carilon thermoplastic polymer in the U.S.in 1996, but discontinued it in 2000.

SRI International offers Carilon thermoplastic polymers.

Hyosung announced that they would launch production in 2015.

A polymer (Greek , "many" + , "parts") is a large molecule, or macromolecule, composed of many repeated subunits.

Because of their broad range of properties, both synthetic and natural polymers play an essential and ubiquitous role in everyday life.

Polymers range from familiar synthetic plastics such as polystyrene to natural biopolymers such as DNA and proteins that are fundamental to biological structure and function.

Polymers, both natural and synthetic, are created via polymerization of many small molecules, known as monomers.

Their consequently large molecular mass relative to small molecule compounds produces unique physical properties, including toughness, viscoelasticity, and a tendency to form glasses and semicrystalline structures rather than crystals.

The ampere (SI unit symbol: A, dimension symbol: I), often shortened to "amp", is a unit of electric current.

In the International System of Units (SI) the ampere is one of the seven SI base units.

It is named after André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics.

Polyether ether ketone (PEEK) is a colourless organic thermoplastic polymer in the polyaryletherketone (PAEK) family, used in engineering applications.