Company History

Founded in 1983, the company continues to supply the nuclear industry, hospitals and research establishments with a wide range of medical and scientific equipment.

Premises

The company is now housed in an approximately 10,000 sq. ft. office and workshop premises in Sompting, which allows for present and future expansion.

Staff

There are currently 27 employees with appropriate use made of contract services.

The company employs a direct sales force of 8 persons, who have specialist skills in their particular market segment. The engineering staff includes four design engineers providing appropriate detector, electronic, software and system integration designs, with full in-house CAD drawing and documentation services, ensuring full compliance with EU regulations.

Major Customers

Some of the major Southern Scientific Ltd. customers include

• M.O.D., Army, Navy and Air Force, and AWE
• Nuclear Power Stations, British Energy, BNFL Magnox and Scottish Nuclear.
• National Health Service and Private Health Industry.
• British Nuclear Fuels Ltd., BNFL Engineering, BNFL Instruments.
• Major Steel Works, and Scrap Yards for Vehicle Monitors, Scrap steel monitors.
• Environmental Agency, CEFAS, and Department of Energy, Transport and Roads.
• Universities and research organisations, Rutherford Appleton, Daresbury, etc.
• UKAEA and AEA(T)

As well as service companies to these organisations. We also export to a number of European and other countries.

Companies Represented

Nucleonics

• Eljen Technology – Plastic & Liquid Scintillators
• CAEN – NIM, CAMAC, VME modules for High Energy Physics Research
• Wiener – Crates and Power Supplies for NIM, CAMAC & VME
• Mechtronics – general purpose NIM instrumentation
• Eurisys Mesure – Ge detectors, and electronics and MCA’s

Health Physics and Environmental Monitors

• UK manufactured range of portable and installed radiation monitors and systems.
• TSA Systems Inc – Vehicle and Walk Through Monitors, SNM monitors, Tool, bag and barrel clearance monitors. Road and Large Area Monitors with GPS.
• Hi-Q - Air Sampling Systems and Accessories, pumps
• Pylon – Radon monitors
• Sartrex – Tritium Monitors.

Southern Scientific Ltd. designs and supplies from within its own in house resource, a range of Area Gamma Monitors, portable units and probes, as well as other customised systems for Radiation Monitoring.

Quality Assurance

Southern Scientific LTD achieved ISO 9001 accreditation in 1997.