Solvay Specialty Polymers’ KetaSpire® Resin Achieves NORSOK M-710 Compliance for Use in Oil and Gas Applications

Published May 04, 2015

HOUSTON, May 4, 2015 – Solvay Specialty Polymers, a leading global supplier of high-performance thermoplastics, announced today at the Offshore Technology Conference (booth 5324) that semi-finished tubes made of its KetaSpire® KT-820 NT polyetheretherketone (PEEK) resin achieved NORSOK M-710 compliance for use in highly demanding oil and gas applications. ATO s.r.l., a top supplier of sealing components based in Milan, Italy, manufactured the semi-finished tubes using its STABIL Hot Compression Molding process. Following the certification of KetaSpire® PEEK, ATO unveiled plans to specify the high-performance polymer for additional products distributed under its STABIL label, including bearings, seals and back-up rings that target critical oil and gas equipment and installations.