Eckert & Ziegler Nuclitec GmbH

Company Presentation

Klaus Thieme

LSC 2010 Paris 08. September 2010

- Headoffice based in Berlin- approx. 550 people worldwide- 9 companies in US and in Europe

“A world leader specialising in the supply of high quality and high performance radioactive sources, recycling, and end of life disposal services”

Eckert & Ziegler Group

Overview– Over 4,000 standard catalogue and customised

products

Over 2,000 Industrial, laboratory, medical and military customers

– Calibration of measurement instrumentation and detection devices

– Sustainable markets driven by regulations

Competitive advantage– Strong market position in Europe; No. 2 or No. 3 in

the rest of the world– Ability to custom design purpose fit devices– Internationally unrivalled calibration and

measurement laboratory

Strategy– Maintain market position, trim product range and

price for value– Leverage our reputation and recognition as a

worldwide centre of excellence for calibration and measurement of radioactive devices

– Become the preferred supplier for new medical imaging cameras (Flood Sources)

Eckert & Ziegler Nuclitec GmbH

Offering products for applications

Facilities of E & Z Nuclitec

Braunschweig

Head Office/Manufacturing Site

• 6,500 sqm on a shared site

• Space for expansion

• Advanced manufacturing facilities

• Waste processing operations

• cGMP certified clean room

• ISO 9001 and EN ISO 13485

• Accredited German Calibration Service

Prof. Friedrich Giesel in the age of 55 Color diapositive after Lumiere´s Autochrome-Process, made with selftimer

Our History

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Our History

Formation of Buchler & Co in Braunschweig

Buchler & Co is the1st commercial supplier of Radium worldwide

Formation of Amersham Buchler GmbH & Co KG(affiliated to the Buchler group)

Amersham Buchler Braunschweig becomes AEA Technology

AEA Technologybecomes QSA Global

Around 1900 Friedrich Oskar Giesel starts the commercial production of radium for Buchler & Co in Braunschweig. One of his customers was Marie Curie.

QSA Global becomes nuclitec

1990 Accreditation ofDKD Calibration lab

nuclitecbecomesEckert & ZieglerNuclitec

2009

Marie Curie had strong ideas about the directions to take towards international standards.

It was agreed that the unit for radioactivity would be the Curie in memory of Pierre Curie, but there was considerable discussion over the amount of activity that would correspond to 1 Curie.

Mdm. Curie insisted that a Curie corresponds to a larger amount. Her definition was "la quantitéd'émanation en équilibre avec un gramme de radium." That is, that quantity of 222Rn (3.8 day half life) in equilibrium with one gram of its parent 226Ra.

Internat. Standards of Radioactivity

Radium as Standard

Short history of radionuclide standards comparable to other physical units

~ 100 a ago the unit Radioactivity was measured in

Milligram Radiumelement

First definition

1 Curie = 3,7 * E+10 s-1

Since 1986 SI unit

1Becquerel = 1 s-1

Reference-Date

Certificate number

Phys. unit „Radium Content“

Measuring value

Source Number

Uncertainty ( 1% )

Sign

Chem. Composition

DKD-Accreditation

of Amersham-BuchlersCalibration laboratory by PTB in 1990for units of Radioactivity

1. Activity 2. Specific Activity3. Particle flux4. Photon flux

Since 1990 ~ 23.000 DKD Certifications

Traceability

Definition

The property of a result of a measurement whereby it can be related to appropriate standards, generally international or national standards, through an unbroken chain of measurements….

Traceability to

PTB, NIST, …

NMIAccr.body DKD(D) HPS UKAS(UK) ……Calibr. lab. DKDK…

Traceability

BIPMBIPM

NIST NPLPTB NLHB

19.03.2009 Test AM

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