Calder Industrial Materials Ltd is the premier supplier of Lead based radiation shielding products in the UK, with manufacturing facilities in five European countries.
Calder Industrial Materials Limited has manufactured the chevron lead plates used to shield the bunker walls of the new Radiotherapy Cyberknife installation at HCA Harley Street Oncology Centre in London.
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The Company’s “Chevron” product shown is an international market leader
and is available in various shielding thicknesses and lengths.
Calder is Europe’s number one manufacturer of radiation shielding products, with experience of meeting customer demands in all of the following applications:
- Nuclear medicine – for the safe transport and storage of radio-active isotopes used in modern scanning technologies
- Hospitals, doctors and dentists surgeries wherever x-ray facilities exist
- Electronics and industrial applications (for example in linear accelerators or NDT X-ray equipment)
- Research establishments
- Nuclear power industry – power generation, decommissioning and waste storage
- Defence
We are able to supply either standard products or to design and develop customer specific solutions for one-off challenges!
The Company’s product capability includes heavy gauge plate, chevron brick, extruded chevron rail or other profile, pipe shielding, bespoke cast components, lead wool, lead granulate, lead strip and flexible lead mats
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Calder Industrial Materials Ltd:
- Is the UK’s leading supplier of engineered products in lead, with a wide product portfolio and a diverse customer base in the nuclear, nuclear medicine, x-ray, electronics, transport, defence and other industries.
- Has a complete range of lead engineering process plant, and offers customers a complete solution from design to installation.
- Produces lead shot for a global customer base of specialist steel makers.
- Designs, manufactures and installs shielded chambers (“hutches”) in synchrotrons – one of a handful of specialist businesses worldwide with this capability.
- Offers customers a CAD design capability fully linked to a CNC machine shop.
- Manufactures lead sheet to EN 12588 in a modern, world-class manufacturing environment.
- Operates a ISO 9001 Quality system and an ISO 14001 accredited management system with a goal of environmental sustainability
- Has a history of 200 years of lead engineering expertise.
- Is one of the UK’s leading building materials suppliers, distributing lead sheet and ancillary products to builders merchants throughout the UK.
Produces lead shot for a global customer base of specialist steel makers.
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