About IXAR Africa

East Africa's NDT partner.

Industrial X-Ray and Allied Radiographers (EA) Ltd has delivered non-destructive testing and industrial inspection on the continent since 2012, with a group record behind every crew that goes back to 1969.

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Experience… our expertise.

East Africa’s NDT partner, with a 55-year group record behind every crew.

Industrial X-Ray and Allied Radiographers (EA) Ltd — IXAR Africa — has delivered non-destructive testing and industrial inspection on the continent since 2012. From our regional office in Kampala and our offices in Dar es Salaam and Mozambique, we serve oil and gas operators, EPC contractors and plant owners across Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, with mobilisation on request anywhere in Africa.

Our crews, equipment and licensed sealed sources are based in the region, so a new site is a mobilisation rather than an import exercise. Today IXAR Africa supports some of the region’s most important energy projects, including UT thickness monitoring on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), Sinopec’s work on the Tilenga Project and PAUT on the Kingfisher Oil Field.

We operate as part of Industrial X-Ray & Allied Radiographers (I) Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai — a leader in NDT since 1969 with more than 1,000 technicians — and draw on the group’s specialists, equipment fleet and written practices whenever a project calls for it.

2012Established in Africa

28Projects on record

$2.0M+Contract value delivered & ongoing

20+NDT methods offered

Leadership

Directors, Africa region.

IXAR Africa is led from Kampala, with the group’s equipment, specialists and written practices a call away whenever a project needs them.

IIT Bombay alumnus
Based in Kampala & Mumbai

Rishi Jain

Managing Director

Rishi leads Industrial X-Ray and Allied Radiographers (EA) Ltd, with responsibility for IXAR’s growth, licensing and project delivery across East Africa. He has built the regional business around the operators and EPC contractors developing Uganda’s oil fields, bringing group-level equipment and technology to projects such as Tilenga and Kingfisher.

An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, he also founded IXAR Robotic Solutions in 2019 — an IIT Bombay alumni start-up incubated at SINE, IIT Bombay, offering ROV-based underwater survey and inspection.

Managing Director, IXAR (EA) Ltd — Uganda
Founder, IXAR Robotic Solutions — underwater robotic inspection
Earlier: business development, Metal Analysis & Services

University of Groningen
Based in Kampala

Marina López Rodríguez

Director

Marina brings more than eight years of international experience across Europe and Africa, much of it managing programmes and partnerships on the ground in East and West Africa. Based in Kampala, she supports IXAR Africa’s regional operations, stakeholder relationships and commitment to developing local talent.

She has worked with organisations including the Suyana Foundation in Uganda and Street Child in Sierra Leone, and studied at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Director, IXAR Africa — Kampala
8+ years in international development across Europe & Africa
Suyana Foundation (Uganda) · Street Child (Sierra Leone)

Cleared to work

Licences, approvals & compliance.

Authorised, certified and audited to handle radiation work on the continent.

Holding, storing and moving sealed radioactive sources is the highest barrier to entry in the African NDT market. IXAR Africa holds the national authorisations to do it — so clients get radiography on their schedule, not an import licence timeline.

Radiation Safety Authorisation

Licensed to own, store, transport and operate sealed radioactive sources by the Uganda Atomic Energy Council and the Tanzania Atomic Energy Commission. Sources in use include Ir-192, Se-75 and Co-60, alongside X-ray crawlers and close-proximity systems.

UAEC Uganda
TAEC Tanzania
BARC

Certified Personnel

Technicians certified to Level II and Level III under PCN and ISO 9712, and to ASNT SNT-TC-1A. Level III staff carry 7–25 years of field experience, Level II staff 5–10 years. BARC-qualified Radiation Safety Officers oversee all source handling.

PCN II / III
ISO 9712
SNT-TC-1A

Quality Management

ISO 9001 certified since 2003, with ISO 14001 environmental and ISO 45001 occupational health & safety systems. Written practices align to ASTM, ASME, API, BS, DIN and NACE, or to the client’s specified standard.

ISO 9001
ISO 14001
ISO 45001

Industry Standing

Member of the American Society for Non-Destructive Testing, American Welding Society, ASTM, NACE, ISNT and NANSO — and one of very few NDT companies that are regular members of the International Pipeline & Offshore Contractors Association.

IPLOCA
ASNT
AWS
NACE

The group behind the continent

55+ years of NDT heritage.

IXAR began in Mumbai in 1969, in radiography.

Five decades on, the group runs the full range of NDT methods, a destructive testing laboratory and a BARC-collaborative training institute. IXAR Africa was established in 2012, and draws on all of it.

Portrait of the Late Shri V. S. Jain — **Late Shri V. S. Jain**Founder · 1940 – 2003

1969
Founded in Mumbai as Industrial X-Ray & Allied Radiographers, starting in radiography.
1986
Becomes a Private Limited Company and expands into the full range of NDT methods.
1996
Honoured at the 14th World Conference on NDT for contributions to NDT and quality.
1999
Destructive testing laboratory launched.
2003
ISO 9001 certification achieved.
2012
IXAR Africa established in East Africa.
Today
1,000+ technicians, 12,000+ projects tested and a BARC-collaborative training institute.

14th WCNDTNew Delhi, 1996
NAARRI Award 1997Shri R.G. Deshpande Memorial
NDT Achievement AwardISNT, 2008
NAARRI Entrepreneurof the Year, 2010

Our people & training

Our strength lies in our technicians.

Qualified, experienced and safety-led — and trained through a programme the group has run since 1969.

IXAR Africa technicians at work on a pipe spool, Uganda

Experienced technicians

Our strength lies in our technicians. ASNT Level III personnel carry 7–25 years of experience, Level II personnel 5–10 years, and senior team members more than 25 years.

Safety first

BARC-qualified Radiation Safety Officers are assigned to all source handling, backed by ISO 45001 occupational health and safety systems and group awards for managing workplace risk.

Building local capability

The group’s training institute runs ASNT Level I & II courses in RT, UT, MT, PT, ET and PAUT, and radiation-safety certification with BARC — expertise we bring to developing East African talent.

Training routes

Group programme · BARC collaboration

Radiation safety for industrial radiographers

The qualification course for personnel operating gamma cameras and X-ray generators, run with the Radiological Physics & Advisory Division, BARC.

ASNT Level I & II

Method training

RT, UT, MT, PT, ET and PAUT, built around the equipment crews actually use on site.

At your site

Client & corporate sessions

For engineering, QA and maintenance teams: what each method can detect, how to read a report, and how to write a scope that returns useful data.

Checking an IXAR certificate? Send the certificate number and the holder’s name and the office will confirm in writing whether it is current and what it covers.

Based in the region, not flown in

Registered offices in East Africa, projects completed in three countries.

Crews, equipment and sealed sources mobilise to site from within Africa. Wherever the next project is — from the Albertine Graben along the EACOP route to the coast of Mombasa — IXAR Africa can mobilise on request across the continent.

19projects in Uganda

4projects in Tanzania

4projects in Kenya

Office contacts

Regional office

Kampala, Uganda

Plot 72, Kanjokya Street, Kamwokya. Projects in Buliisa, Hoima, Jinja, Namanve and Luwero.

Uganda Atomic Energy Council

Office

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Serving onshore and offshore installations across Tanzania.

Tanzania Atomic Energy Commission

Office

Mozambique

Supporting energy and industrial clients in southern East Africa.

Projects completed

Mombasa, Kenya

Marine, fabrication and mooring-boat inspection for SECO and Hull Marine.

IXAR Group international presence

India · Uganda · Tanzania · Mozambique · Nigeria · Netherlands · UAE · Oman · Saudi Arabia

Group specialists, equipment and written practices are available to African projects whenever the scope requires it.

Work with us

Let's build safer, more reliable operations.

Tell us the asset, the scope and the standard you work to, and the Kampala regional office will come back with crews, methods and a written proposal.