Alrad Instruments Ltd

Through our six technology divisions, ALRAD Imaging, ALRAD Electronics, ALRAD Photonics, ALRAD Medical, ALRAD Thermal and ALRAD Vacuum, we offer thousands of product items from the world's leading manufacturers. We also provide installation, demonstration, and product support services. 

We represent many of our principals as their sole distributor in the UK. Some of these exclusive companies have been with us since the 1970s, many of our distribution agreements have been in place for a very long time and that must say something about the service we offer. The products and service we provide open up new opportunities for our customers to improve quality,automation and productivity which is why many of our existing customers have been experiencing ALRAD high quality service for decades.

Alrad employ experienced staff to help our customers generate a competitive edge for their companies backed by world class products.

Alrad are members of the UKIVA (United Kingdom Industrial Vision Association) group of organizations and companies within the PPMA ( Processing and Packaging Machinery Association).


ALRAD Imaging supplies imaging components, equipment and services to both industrial system integrators, OEMs, scientific and research customers.

ALRAD Electronics provides a wide range of optical detectors, laser products, high voltage components, optoelectronic sockets, analytical systems and densitometers.

ALRAD Photonics offers Infrared detectors, power supplies, laser diode modules, photodetectors, optoelectronic components , optical filters, diffraction gratings and laser accessories.

ALRAD Medical is responsible for the marketing and sales of air disinfection systems, endoscope cameras, medical screening, molecular detection, personal protection equipment, temperature screening, UV sterilization and UV C Germicidal LED Lighting.

ALRAD Thermal is responsible for marketing and sales of automotive thermal cameras, commercial vision thermal cameras, thermal industrial cameras, thermal security cameras and thermography thermal cameras

ALRAD Vacuum provides a range of product for high vacuum and space applications including electron multipliers, long distance microscopes for vacuum chamber ports and vacuum image sensors

If you need any help in selecting the right product for your application
please call our friendly sales office on 01635 937000
we will be pleased to assist you.

Thank you for visiting Alrad at the MVC!

Thank you for visiting Alrad at the MVC!

After yet another successful year at the UKIVA’s Machine Vision Conference, it has been a pleasure to see so much interest from new and existing customers and we look forward to working on all of your projects with you! As well as this we also welcomed Julian to the Alrad team at the MVC, and he has already provided crucial attributes to the team and the future of Alrad! Please feel free to contact our sales team directly or through sales@alrad.co.uk!

The Imaging Source helped us to steal the show with embedded face recognition systems and their all new MIPI CSI-2/FPD-Link III Modules, which make for a perfect all-in-one option for industrial embedded-imaging needs, containing a range of sensor modules.. Furthermore, we provided a great insight into products for microscopy from Sentech, BitFlow framegrabbers and more! We had a fantastic time at the show and hope that you have found the solutions that you are looking for. We will be counting down the days to MVC 2019 and cannot wait to share what we will be working on to show you in the future

At 10:30 am, Ryan from our Support and Marketing team conducted a presentation on ‘Lighting and the Importance of Getting it Right’, helping to give members of public a better understanding on the importance of using lighting correctly and efficiently. This was shown through various lighting methods used in machine vision and followed by examples of how you can use different lighting techniques to create entirely different effects. Machine vision is analysing reflected light, therefore to get the best out of your desired image you must understand the principles behind illuminating the image to suit your requirements. If you are interested in our presentation please contact support@alrad.co.uk and we will be happy to supply you with a copy!

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