For Arnab Basu, CEO of Kromek Group, the expansion of his company and NETPark is totally intertwined. “I came into the park a week before it opened,” he recalls. “It was supposed to open in the new year, but I barged in pre-Christmas.”
Back then, at the end of 2003, Kromek was called Durham Scientific Crystals. It had been spun out of Durham University in a bid to commercialise the production of the semiconductor cadmium zinc
telluride – and has since grown into a global supplier of cutting-edge radiation detection products. It now employs 75 people at the Sedgefield science park alone, and has three other bases, in Huddersfield – and in Pennsylvania and California.
Kromek Group plc designs, develops and produces x-ray and gamma-ray imaging and radiation detection products for the medical, CBRNe security, Homeland Security and civil nuclear radiation detection markets.