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Victrex Victrex is to invest £75m in the expansion of its thermoplastics business over the next three years, including a new £29m factory at its Thornton Cleveleys site in Lancashire. 07-Dec-2005 Victrex has acquired an oxidation plant at Seal Sands in the north-east from Degussa for £16m, in order to secure the supply of the BDF raw material for the production of its Peek polymer. 04-Apr-2005 Victrex is planning to expand its UK production capacity for high-performance plastic materials by 1,000 tonnes a year. 08-Dec-2004 Victrex is considering plans to set up a new speciality plastics plant in China, and plans for a new UK plant would be dropped. 09-Jun-2004 Victrex is planning to spend £20m increasing its production capacity of speciality plastics over the next 30 months. 13-Jun-2001 Victrex is forming a fuel cells joint venture with Ballard of Canada to research new manufacturing processes for ionomers, which could lead to the £17m development of two pilot factories. 23-Jan-2001 Victrex is planning to increase the capacity at its UK thermoplastics plant to 2,000 tonnes a year, and also wants to build a further plant. 10-Dec-1997 Victrex, the thermoplastics producer, is forming a joint venture with Mitsui Toatsu Chemical to streamline its sales and development in Japan. 08-Oct-1997 Victrex, the speciality chemicals concern, expects to raise about £52m from its forthcoming flotation. 08-Dec-1995 Victrex, the speciality chemicals concern, plans to raise about £12m from a share issue. 01-Dec-1995 Victrex, the maker of high temperature plastics, is planning a stock market flotation to invest in plant and staff. 06-Nov-1995 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007