Your Partner In The Future Of Flight
PEEK and PAEK-based solutions that replace metals, thermosets and other aerospace polymers
Performance meets processability
Our high-performance PEEK and PAEK-based polymer solutions offer an exceptional combination of benefits to help aerospace OEMs, designers and processors reach new levels of cost savings, quality, and performance. Victrex solutions help lower weight, improve buy-to-fly ratios, and provide design freedom to optimise the design and consolidate parts.
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Fast and efficient production
Victrex and Coriolis Composites teamed up to improve the manufacturing efficiency of composite parts.
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Up to 85% better buy-to-fly ratio
Vs. aluminum - significantly reducing material waste by optimal use of raw materials in the injection moulding process.
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High strength with design flexibility
Designing hybrid parts with VICTREX AE 250 LMPAEK has the potential to reduce scrap rates, cycle times, part count, and buy-to-fly ratios.
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Reducing costs with smart designs
Novel hollow profile process helps reduce cycle times and increase process efficiency for composite profile production.
PEEK is Victrex. Victrex is PEEK.
Victrex solutions deliver exceptional performance in extreme environments, helping customers solve critical challenges that go beyond current material limitations, typically replacing metal.
Victrex focuses on PEEK & PAEK polymers, considered the world's highest performing thermoplastics
PEEK Forms
Manufacturing product forms: Pipes, Films, Fibres and Composite tapes
PEEK Parts
Developing new applications for PEEK, PAEK and Thermoplastic Composites
“The original idea was to create a sort of center of excellence where you could do all of the design and engineering, get tools built, make prototypes and, ultimately, produce commercial parts.”
Jonathan Sourkes -
Victrex Head of Sales for Aerospace
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Innovative designs offer more than weight savings alone
- Fasteners
- Loaded Brackets
- Fluid Transport
Wire bundle and tubing clamps
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Up to 20% weight reduction versus metal
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Up to 30% faster installation versus metal
- Injection-moulded PEEK for high volume production
- Introduced on the Boeing 787 and translated to the Boeing 737
- Corrosion resistance for longer life
- Lightweight, ergonomic, and durable solution
- Fasteners
- Loaded Brackets
- Fluid Transport
Flexible composite platform
50
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Up to 50% reduction in weight versus aluminium
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Up to 5x better buy-to-fly ratio versus aluminium
- Standardised parts
- Reduced weight
- Streamlined manufacturing
- Potential installation time savings
- Fasteners
- Loaded Brackets
- Fluid Transport
Fluid transport tubing
33
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Up to 33% reduction in weight versus metal
- Significant weight savings
- Bend, flare, and form for improved design
- Faster installation
- Corrosion resistance for longer life
- Low maintenance
Hybrid overmoulding
Hybrid technology allows engineers to overmould a VICTREX AE™ 250 LMPAEK-based composite with fibre-reinforced injection moulding PEEK polymers. Hybrid solutions can help reduce system costs and optimise buy-to-fly ratios verses metals and thermosets.
Transforming industries
Find out how VICTREX PEEK polymer delivers innovation in focus industries.
Automotive solutions
500+ million
VICTREX™ PEEK based parts in automotive applications.
Electronic solutions
4+ billion
Mobile devices use APTIV™ acoustic film.
Energy solutions
75+ million
VICTREX™ PEEK seals in use today.
Industrial solutions
100+ million
Machines operate using Victrex solutions.
Medical solutions
~15 million
Implanted devices worldwide use Invibio PEEK-OPTIMA™ polymers.
Design guidelines
Designing hybrid parts with VICTREX AE 250 LMPAEK has the potential to reduce scrap rates, cycle times, part count, and buy-to-fly ratios.
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Press release
Victrex and Safran Cabin to launch flexible composite platform for multiple aircraft bracket projects.
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Technical paper
VICTREX AE 250 LMPAEK unidirectional tape provides a larger processing window which helps improve press consolidation and forming.
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