Gibsonton, Florida · Family-owned since 1970
Built to stop what you can’t see.
A-fabco engineers and manufactures radiation shielding for diagnostic imaging, radiation therapy, and industrial NDT: lead-lined doors and frames, lead glass, brick, barriers, and complete vaults. Made in Gibsonton, Florida. Shipped across the country and around the world.
- 20,000+ projects completed
- Five decades, one family
- X-ray · CT · PET · Linac · NDT
Why the industry calls here first
Fifty-six years of getting the physics right.
Hospitals, imaging centers, contractors, and NDT lines have trusted the same family-owned shop since shielding was a young trade. Here is what that buys you.
01 / The product line
Everything between the beam
and everybody else.
Stock items ship fast. Custom work is our favorite kind. Every product below is fabricated or finished in our Gibsonton plant, and every one has its own page with the specs.
See every product, A to Z
Lead glass & view windows
Schott lead glass sized to stock, leaded frames welded here. Sizing guide included.
PB GLASS · FRAMES · SIZING
Lead-lined doors & frames
Wood and steel to 1/2″ lead, commercial doors and hardware, STC sound doors.
WOOD + STEEL · HARDWARE · STC
Neutron & vault doors
Swing and sliding, 3,000 to 30,000 lb, engineered, built, hung, and serviced.
FEATURED · SEE THE BUILD
Lead brick & sheet
Interlocking 4 by 12 brick for linac vaults, and every sheet and plate below it.
INTERLOCKING · 1″ TO 3-1/2″
Lead-lined drywall & plywood
Type X laminated in-house with 2 lb to 8 lb sheet lead. Clean board, stamped and color coded.
TYPE X · 1/32″ TO 1/8″ PB
Personnel barriers
Control walls shipped assembled and mobile acrylic barriers for the people who stay in the room.
MOBILE + STATIONARY
X-ray cabinets & enclosures
Lead sandwiched in steel over Uni-strut, manual or motor-operated doors, built to NRC codes.
PB / STEEL · UNI-STRUT
Modular X-ray & NDT rooms
Complete 200 to 400 KV rooms, fabricated and tested here, assembled at your site by our crew.
SITE-ASSEMBLED · 200 TO 400 KV
High-density concrete
Poured and interlocking block at 250 and 300 PCF, the cost-smart route when lead gets heavy.
POURED + BLOCK
Also from stock
Leaded finish hardware · Sound & STC doors · Commercial doors & hardware · Automatic door operators · Lead remediation · LCN · Von Duprin · Hager · Schlage · Glynn-Johnson · Roton · Rixson
We have never had a price list, on purpose. Send the specs and we quote it fast.
02 / Capability
From a 32nd of an inch
to a poured vault.
Shielding is a ladder, and we build every rung of it. Whatever thickness the physicist orders, there is a right way to reach it, and a wrong way to pay for it. We quote the right one.
Laminated drywall & plywood · 1/32″ to 1/8″ lead · exam rooms, imaging suites
Sheet lead systems · up to 3/4″ equivalency · CT, PET, high-output rooms
Interlocking brick & high-density concrete · beyond 3/4″ · linac and vault territory
03 / Field work
Twenty thousand projects.
Here’s what a few look like.
Private sector and government, one-day repairs and year-long builds. Photographed the way we found them: mid-pour, mid-stack, mid-install.
Custom projects & retrofits
“As specialists in healthcare facility construction, we have consistently relied on a-fabco as a key partner to help deliver our projects on time and on budget. Over the past 18 years we have contracted with a-fabco on countless projects due to their professionalism, integrity, and experience. I would highly recommend a-fabco as a leader in the fabrication and installation of high quality radiation shielding products.”
04 / Who calls us
Hospitals & health systems
Imaging suites, therapy vaults, and the doors, glass, and drywall that wrap them. Your patients are there once in a while. Your people are there every day.
Imaging & oncology centers
X-ray, CT, and PET buildouts, plus linac, HDR, CyberKnife, and TomoTherapy doors.
Industrial NDT & aerospace
Cabinets, cells, and 200 to 400 KV rooms for non-destructive testing lines.
Contractors & CMs
Submittals, lead times you can schedule around, and a shop that answers the phone.
05 / The company
Fifty-six years of
stopping radiation.
A-fabco has been family-owned since 1970, back when shielding was a young trade. We started in radiographic equipment sales and service, so we learned how these rooms actually get used before we ever built one. It still shows in the work: products shaped by the people who order them, not by a catalog committee.
Customers get a straight answer, a fast quote, and a shop that picks up the phone. Our philosophy has not changed in five decades: put the customer first, fix what we find in the field, and let the work earn the next call.
Start something
Send the specs.
Get a number.
Tell us what the physicist ordered: thicknesses, openings, room sizes, timeline. We respond promptly with pricing, and drawings are always welcome. Phone, fax, or email, whichever you prefer.
Or skip the form. Real people, real extensions:
- Jerry HarburgPresident / Ownerx104
- Dave BarkleyGeneral Managerx102
- Ken KennedyPM / Commercial Door Salesx107
- Joel ChristyPM / Salesx113
- Daniel CurreyProject Designer / PMx105
- John LoenSenior Mechanical Engineerx111
- Cindi Rizzo-MillerOffice Managerx101
Toll-free (800) 330-5323 · Office (813) 677-8790 · Fax (813) 671-1865