What Cadar does

Cadar Ltd is a privately held UK industrial equipment manufacturer founded in 1985 and headquartered in Market Harborough, Leicestershire. The company designs and supplies filtration and distribution systems for municipal water treatment, industrial process water, pharmaceutical manufacturing, food processing, and chemical industries. Its core product portfolio centers on filter nozzles (available in polypropylene, glass fibre-reinforced polypropylene, Kynar/PVDF, and stainless steel), monolithic cast-in-situ concrete filter floors, under-drain systems, resin traps, stainless steel distribution systems, and spray nozzles. The proprietary monolithic filter floor system uses corrugated Glassfibre Reinforced Concrete (GRC) panels with integral nozzle sleeves and is supplied with 15-year guarantees against media loss exceeding 2% per annum.

Cadar's business model is sales-led and project-based, with pricing determined through custom quotations rather than published list prices. The company sells directly to enterprise and municipal customers via phone, email, and website enquiry, and serves as the exclusive UK and Irish agent for Schlick Spray Nozzle, which provides access to advanced spray technology including the ABC anti-bearding system used in pharmaceutical tablet coating. The company has demonstrated international reach through partnerships such as ASW Engineering in Southern Africa, supplying components for the Umgeni Water Wiggins Road Water Purification Works refurbishment. Distribution is primarily direct, complemented by the Schlick agency relationship, with customers spanning municipal water utilities, industrial operators, food manufacturers (e.g., Batchelors), and engineering contractors (e.g., Western Carbons). No external funding, acquisitions, or headcount growth signals are evident in the available data.

Name

Cadar

Legal name

Cadar Ltd

Website

https://cadar.ltd.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cadar Ltd is a UK-based industrial filtration equipment manufacturer founded in 1985, supplying filter nozzles, monolithic concrete filter floors, under-drain systems, resin traps, and Schlick spray nozzles to municipal water utilities, industrial operators, and pharmaceutical, food, and chemical processors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Water Treatment Equipment

NAICS

Pump and Compressor Manufacturing (33391)

SIC

Pumps & Pumping Equipment (3561)

akta.pro primary industry

Separation & Filtration Equipment (Filters, Centrifuges, Membranes) (IMAHAEAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Emission Control & Scrubbing Equipment (Scrubbers, Dust Collectors, Catalytic Systems) (IMAHAEAK)

Keywords

• Industrial water treatment
• Filter nozzles
• Resin traps
• Monolithic filter floors
• Under-drain systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Market Harborough

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Industrial Water Treatment Equipment Sales: Direct sales of filter nozzles, spray nozzles, under-drain systems, resin traps, and monolithic filter floors to municipal and industrial customers. Products are sold with technical support before, during, and after the sale.
2. Custom System Design: Customised solutions designed and made to meet specific customer needs, including design and fabrication services for specialty applications like clear PVC filter columns for R&D testing.
3. Schlick Spray Nozzle Distribution: As UK and Irish agents for Schlick Spray Nozzle, distributing spray nozzles and atomisers for pharmaceutical, food, confectionery, power, water, automotive and engineering industries.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cadar designs, manufactures, and supplies industrial filtration equipment for water treatment applications. The company provides filter nozzles, stainless steel distribution systems, under-drain systems, resin traps, and monolithic cast-in-place concrete filter floors to municipal water treatment utilities, industrial facilities, and food, pharmaceutical, and chemical processors. As UK and Irish agents for Schlick spray nozzles, Cadar also distributes spray technology for tablet coating, atomisation, and industrial spray processes.

Product overview

Cadar Ltd is a specialist designer and supplier of industrial filtration equipment for water treatment, serving municipal, industrial, food, pharmaceutical, and chemical sectors since 1985. The product portfolio centers on filter nozzles and distribution systems, with complementary offerings including monolithic cast-in-place concrete filter floors, resin traps, under-drain systems, and stainless steel components. As UK and Irish agents for Schlick spray nozzles, Cadar extends its reach into spray technology applications including tablet coating, atomisation, and industrial spray processes. The core products work together as integrated filtration and distribution solutions: filter nozzles retain media and distribute water/air, under-drain systems collect filtrate and distribute air scour, resin traps protect against media loss, and monolithic filter floors provide jointless filtration surfaces for rapid gravity sand filters.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Filter Nozzles Industrial filter nozzles and strainers for water treatment applications, retaining filter media while providing distribution of water and air. Available in polypropylene, glass fibre-reinforced polypropylene, Kynar (PVDF), and stainless steel materials. Designed for municipal and industrial water treatment plants.
• Under-Drain Systems Custom-designed under-drain systems for municipal rapid gravity sand filters, activated carbon vessels, ion exchange columns, and swimming pool filters. Available in plastics, stainless steel, Hastelloy, and other metals for collecting service flow and air scour distribution.
• Resin Traps Inline resin traps protecting against resin loss in ion exchange columns and sand/carbon systems. Prevent loss of expensive resins, cross contamination of resins, damage to pumps and valves, costly downtime, and environmental damage. Available in polypropylene, PVC, PVDF, stainless steel, PTFE coated, and Hastelloy. Handles line sizes up to 12 inches and flows up to 1600 GPM.
• Monolithic Filter Floors Cast in-situ concrete filter floor system becoming part of the surrounding civil structure. Available in flat panel (ideal for retrofit and restricted head situations) and corrugated panel (ideal for new construction and large areas) variants. Uses corrugated Glassfibre Reinforced Concrete (GRC) panels with nozzle sleeves designed for superior bond with concrete and primary seal against corrosive raw water effects. Backed by 15-year guarantee on installations.
• Stainless Steel Systems Filter nozzles and distribution systems manufactured in stainless steel for demanding industrial applications. Includes Top Hats, Hubs, Headers and Laterals designed for durability and longevity in industrial environments.
• Schlick Spray Nozzles Spray nozzles and atomisers distributed by Cadar as UK and Irish agents for Schlick. Used in pharmaceutical, food, confectionery, power, water, automotive and engineering industries for applications including tablet coating, spray granulation, atomising, and spray drying.
• Tablet Coating Solutions Schlick ABC (Anti-Bearding Technology) spray nozzles for tablet coating that prevent coating build-up on spray guns, enabling cleaner production runs without intermittent cleaning stops even with high viscosity solutions and high air pressures producing maximum spray-drying.
• Clear PVC Filter Columns Clear PVC filter columns designed for R&D applications, allowing observation of filter media during filtration and backwash while operating at pressures up to 6 bar.
• Hub & Lateral Star Systems Stainless steel hub and lateral star systems designed for extreme in-vessel environments, used as part of filtration distribution systems.

Quantifiable outcome

• 15-year guarantee on filter floor installations with media loss rate not exceeding 2% per annum
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Schlick Spray NozzlecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCadar Ltd are the UK and Irish agents for Schlick Spray Nozzle, offering many different types of sprays and atomisers for applications in pharmaceutical, food, confectionery, power, water, automotive and engineering industries. Schlick has been one of the forerunners in the development of new spray technology.
• ASW EngineeringcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerASW Engineering, a prominent supplier of water treatment systems in Southern Africa, contracted by Umgeni Water, used Cadar's corrugated Glassfibre Reinforced Concrete (GRC) panels equipped with nozzle sleeves for a major filter refurbishment project at Wiggins Road Water Purification Works. ASW proposed the Cadar solution and issued a 15-year guarantee based on Cadar's product performance.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Alfa Laval: Global manufacturer of separation and filtration equipment for industrial applications including water treatment, food, pharma, and chemicals. Comparable to Cadar in industrial filtration/separation product category, but operating at significantly larger scale and broader portfolio.
• Evoqua Water Technologies: Major provider of water and wastewater treatment equipment and services, including filtration, disinfection, and membrane systems. Large incumbent with a much broader product portfolio than Cadar but operating in the same municipal and industrial water-treatment end-markets.
• Andritz Separation: Major supplier of solid-liquid separation equipment for water treatment, mining, chemical, and food industries. Comparable as an industrial separation/filtration equipment manufacturer with similar end-customers to Cadar's industrial water treatment segments.
• Pall Corporation: Industrial filtration company serving water treatment, pharmaceutical, biotech, and chemical industries with a broad portfolio of filtration equipment and consumables. Overlapping product lines with Cadar's industrial filtration focus, though at significantly larger scale.
• Veolia Water Technologies: World's largest water and wastewater treatment equipment and services provider. Overlaps with Cadar in municipal and industrial water-treatment filtration infrastructure, but operates at global scale with a much broader solutions portfolio.

Regional players

• Severn Trent Services: UK-based provider of water and wastewater treatment services and equipment. Comparable as a same-region competitor with overlapping municipal water-treatment filtration capabilities, although its product portfolio and service mix are broader than Cadar's component focus.

Direct peers

• Schlick: German manufacturer of industrial spray nozzles and atomisers, including the ABC anti-bearding technology. Cadar is the UK and Irish agent for Schlick; Schlick represents the underlying OEM relationship and a directly comparable spray nozzle specialist competing in the same product category.
• Spraying Systems Co. The world's largest manufacturer of industrial spray nozzles and spray technology, serving pharmaceutical, food, chemical, and general industrial applications. Highly comparable to the Schlick agency product line that Cadar distributes, with overlapping end-markets and customer profiles.
• BETE Fog Nozzle: US-based manufacturer of industrial spray nozzles and atomisers for food, chemical, pharmaceutical, and general industrial applications. Directly comparable to the Schlick/Cadar spray nozzle business in product category and target industries.
• F.B. Leopold (Xylem): F.B. Leopold, now part of Xylem, is a leading global manufacturer of underdrain systems, monolithic filter floors, and filtration equipment for municipal water treatment plants. It is the closest direct competitor to Cadar in cast-in-situ filter floors and underdrain systems for rapid gravity sand filters.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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