The Lead weights will be used in several applications including elevator weights, ship ballast, CAT scan machines, handicap weights and lead diving weights.
West Bridgewater, MA, 8/25/2020 – Nuclead Inc., a leader in lead materials and lead products announces the shipment of several orders of Lead Counterweights and Lead ballast to customers in medical, marine, sports, and construction industries.
Because Lead as a high density and easily formed into various shapes, but is relatively low in cost, it is often used in counterweight or ballast applications.
In marine applications such as ship ballast and lead diving weights the lead is used to counter the effect of buoyancy due to the water. Often lead is used in the keels in sailing vessels and on diving belts.
In construction of high-rise buildings lead is used for a counterbalance in elevators, to offset the weight of the loaded elevator car and reduce the load on the elevator motors. It is also used as a counterbalance weight for cranes and other heavy equipment
In sports, such as horse racing and auto racing, lead weights are used for handicap purposes to make for a more competitive race.
Nuclead can supply lead weights is all sizes and weights ranging from ounces to a much as 100,000 lbs.! Lead weights can also be supplied in pure lead or in alloys of metals such as antimony, tin, zinc, bismuth and copper.
Here are some of Nuclead’s recent shipments in these areas.
- Provide lead counterweights per customer written specifications, for an OEM that manufactures high RPM CAT Scans
- Draw from inventory and deliver Pure lead Pig ingots, approx. 40#-70# ingots. Sold to an ocean research firm in New England for lead counterweights of ocean sampling laboratories.
- Pick and ship Scrap Lead solids &/or sheet: For Misc. Weight/Ballast or Re-melting: Misc. sizes & grades. Sold to an excavation company for heavy equipment ballast.
- Pick and ship one ton of Pure lead Pig ingots, approx. 40#-70# ingots (approx. size: 3.00″ x 4.00″ x 20.00″, loaf shape).
- Sold and delivered to a heavy equipment repair company in Missouri, used for counterweight ballast in heavy equipment.
- CNC mill, lead molds and cast lead elevator weights, 1.00″ x 7.50″ x 45.75″. These lead elevator weights were fabricated per sketch provided by the customer. They are being installed into a new luxury hotel in the northeast for its grand opening. They weigh approximately 130lbs each.
- Fabricate and ship special gram weighted lead weights, packed per customer blueprints. These weights are machined to within +/- 0.5 grams: Sold to a laboratory for research and development project in New Jersey.
- Fabricate a set of gram lead weights per customer’s specifications. All the weights are used for an experiment for a pharmaceutical company in Cambridge. The lead had to be 99.99% pure or better and weights were held to extremely tight tolerances.
- Fabricate and ship a variety of handicap weights for thoroughbreds. Sold to a trainer in Maryland.
- Pick Re-claimed Lead shot/balls: For Re-loading, Ballast, Re-melting, or Misc. weight/Ballast: Misc. sizes & grades. Sold to a Forging company in Maine that needs economical lead for its refining process.
- Draw from inventory and deliver Pure lead Pig ingots, approx. 40#-70# ingots. Sold to an ocean research firm in New England for lead counterweights of ocean sampling laboratories.
- Cast and sell lead diving weights to a Spearfishing company in Florida. Nuclead fabricated hundreds of pounds of scuba weights for this order and keeps tons of materials in stock for quick deliveries.
- Cast: Lead Diving Weight: 2lb: Sold to a University diving team that uses the lead weights as lead handicap sport weights.
- Lead cast and ship: Nuclead brand Lead Diving weights. Nuclead shipped over 100# to a commercial Scuba Company in The South Carolina to be used to teach their customers how to Scuba Dive.
About Nuclead
Nuclead Mfg Co Inc. is the leading worldwide supplier of innovative Shielding, and X-ray inspection products. With nearly 40 years in providing advanced Shielding & X-ray security systems, the Company’s product line utilizes a combination of technologies, and expertise unmatched by any other company.
These technologies offer superior service and products. Nuclead’s has a complete range of lead products including shielding for cargo inspection, baggage screening and passenger screening systems for facility and aviation security.
Nuclead also supplies products for the Nuclear & energy, Oil, Construction, Manufacturing, X-ray, medical & research, Elevator, Marine/boating, Bridge and Sporting industries.
Nuclead’s sophisticated products are used to protect high-threat facilities and help combat terrorism and trade fraud; Gamma ray, Neutron, & X-ray shielding; and counterweight – ballast- & weight requirements. Nuclead customers include Major Universities & Research centers, Leading government agencies, Military bases, General contractors, Manufactures, Hospitals and Corporations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and branches of the U.S. Military.
For more information on Nuclead’s products, services, and technologies, please visit https://nuclead.com/or
https://www.nucleadinc.com/.
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