Lead sheet manufacturer, Derbyshire

Recycled lead sheet, made to your code.

One 13 acre site, two melting kettles and more than 20,000 tonnes of lead sheet a year. BBA certified, with a 60 year guarantee, and a phone answered by people who know lead.

2024
The King's Award for EnterpriseSustainable Development 2024. One of 29 businesses in the UK.
40+years supplying lead worldwide
20,000tof lead sheet made on site each year
600,000tsupplied to construction projects
60 yrBBA guarantee on machine cast lead

Start with the job

What are you specifying?

Eighteen product lines is a lot to scroll. Tell us the application and we will point you to the right lead.

Machine cast and rolled lead sheet, Codes 3 to 8

BBA certified with a 60 year guarantee, CE marked to EN 14783 and approved by NHBC. Supplied with everything needed to lay and finish it.

Rolls of Midland Lead machine cast lead sheet

Sandcast lead for castles, cathedrals and churches

Hand-finished, slightly grainy sandcast lead in Codes 6 to 8 as standard, higher codes on request. We can collect and re-cast the original lead, closing the loop on a historic roof.

Midland Lead sandcast and rolled lead

Lead-lined boards and bricks for healthcare

Worked out with Radiation Protection Advisors for decades. Codes 1 and 2 for radiation and acoustic use, plus lead-lined boards and chevron bricks for hospitals, vets, NDT and nuclear.

Radiology unit at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

Ingots, offcuts and bespoke lead filling

Dense, castable and recyclable. From sailing keels to counterweights, we supply ingots and offcuts and offer a bespoke lead filling service.

Lead ingots

How the lead is made

Scrap in. Certified sheet out.

Lead melts at just 327 degrees C, which is why recycling it costs so little energy. Every tonne we cast has already lived one life on a roof, in a battery or behind a wall.

Midland Lead cutting lines

Source

Recycled lead from trusted sources. We also buy your scrap lead.

Melt

Two melting kettles on our 13 acre Woodville site, partly powered by our own energy production.

Cast and cut

A casting machine, a sand-cast facility for heritage work and four cutting lines.

Deliver

To merchants and contractors across the UK, and worldwide with export paperwork handled.

Specified with confidence

BBAcertified, 60 year guarantee
EN 14783CE marked for roofing and cladding
NHBCapproved machine cast lead
BSIHealth and Safety, Environment, Quality
EPDthe only UK lead sheet maker with one
BRE A+ / AGreen Guide rating for lead

Case studies

Trusted by businesses all over the world

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Sustainable manufacturing

Lead that has already been recycled once.

100%recycled lead sheet, with a BRE Global Environmental Product Declaration
24%self sufficient in energy for lead sheet production
2024King's Award for Enterprise, Sustainable Development
RealLiving Wage Employer since May 2026

Delivered worldwide

From Derbyshire to your site, wherever it is.

We export from Woodville to the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Australasia, with technical advice and export paperwork handled by a team that has done it for decades.

World map of Midland Lead export regions

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Behind the scenes of a 40 year business

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