Seafab Metals Co

Seafab Metals Co. is dedicated to turning our expertise into your solutions. Our goal is to make our customers world leaders in creative lead applications.

How can we help you to make lead products technically beneficial and environmentally benign

Seafab Metals Company is continuing it's long history and tradition of it's predecessor which began in the early 1920's as the Northwest Lead Company in Seattle, Washington.

During the past 80 years, the company has been affiliated with the world's largest lead mining companies while being directly involved in secondary lead and lead-alloy smelter and refining as well as operating lead manufacturing facilities with rolling mills, extrusion presses, casting equipment and ball mills for manufacturing of lead oxides. Today Seafab operates manufacturing facilities in Casa Grande, Arizona and Vancouver, Washington.

Seafab is a primary manufacturer of lead and lead alloyed products used for radiation, x-ray shielding and nuclear shielding in maintenance areas in the forms of sheet, plate, brick, castings and extrusions.In addition, we have the facilities to perform hot lead pours for nuclear shielding into casks-containers-lids used for storage and transportation of radioactive wastes. The facilities for continuous hot lead pours have kettle capacities of up to 250 tons.

Seafab Metals Company has been a provider of shielding technology since the days of the Manhattan project. Over the years we have been instrumental in offering new materials and new methods of manufacture to meet the needs of the nuclear industry, both in research and in power generation. Seafab and it's parent company, Doe Run, were the first to suggest and successfully apply calcium lead alloys as a solution to the creep related dimensional stability problems in high energy calorimeters and radiation oncology focusing devices.

Seafab remains in the forefront of supply by being responsible for the manufacture of ultra high integrity lead castings for spent nuclear fuel casks and related components. Continuous lead pours of up to 500,000 pounds are possible within our facilities. Seafab's manufacturing experience dating to the 1920's combined with Doe Run's knowledge of metallurgy dating from the mid 1800's combine to provide an unbeatable blend of manufacturing and materials application.