Victrex plc Wins RoSPA President's Award in Recognition of Sustained Effort in
Successfully Maintaining Health and Safety Management Systems

Victrex plc, the leading manufacturer of high performance materials, including VICTREX® PEEK™ polymer, has won the prestigious Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA ) President’s Award. The President’s Award was given to Victrex in recognition of its remarkable achievement of maintaining a high level of occupational health and safety performance and being awarded a Gold Achievement Award over a sustained period of eleven consecutive years. Victrex won the Gold Achievement Award in recognition of the company’s excellent management of in-house health and safety systems during 2007.

“The health and safety of our employees is fundamental to everything that we do at Victrex,” said Tim Walker, Production and Technical Director of Victrex. “The Board of Directors of Victrex plc believes that all employees should be able to work safely in a healthy workplace and that our activities should not harm the public or the environment. We strongly believe that good health, safety and environmental performance go hand-in-hand with good business performance. Winning eleven consecutive RoSPA Gold Achievement Awards is an honor for Victrex; we have achieved the award thanks to the sustained effort of our team in maintaining excellent safety management systems.”

The RoSPA Awards scheme celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 2006, making it one of the longest running and most highly respected occupational award programs in the UK.

The scheme offers responsible companies, such as Victrex, an ideal way of showing commitment to health and safety; for setting targets for continuous improvement; for motivating employees; and raising health and safety awareness. This year’s awards are sponsored by NEBOSH (The National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health), the leading health and safety professional examining board.

“Our strategy to continually improve lies at the heart of everything we do at Victrex,” continued Walker. “The unique value of Victrex lies in our ability to tailor high performance PEEK-based polymers for our customer's best advantage, to provide the highest quality PEEK product available and to work with our customers to achieve improvements in their product performance, quality, market differentiation and costs.”

About Victrex
Victrex plc is an innovative leading manufacturer of high performance materials, including VICTREX® PEEK™ polymer, VICOTE® Coatings and APTIV™ Film. These materials are used in a variety of markets and offer and exceptional combination of properties to help processors and end users reach new levels of cost savings, quality and performance. VICTREX® is a registered trademark of Victrex Manufacturing Limited. PEEK™, PEEK-HT™, T-Series™, MAX-Series™ and APTIV™ are trademarks of Victrex plc. VICOTE® is a registered trademark of Victrex plc. For more information visit: http://www.victrex.com.