Luxfer Magtech, Inc.

Luxfer Magtech, Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer based in Cincinnati, Ohio, supplies specialized chemical detection, decontamination, and military sustainment equipment to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on firm-fixed-price delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts, with 99% of recent awards as prime work and no set-aside posture across its footprint.

Luxfer Magtech specializes in magnesium-based products for defense applications, with concrete capability across three primary lines. Chemical detection equipment dominates the portfolio — the company manufactures M256A2 Chemical Agent Detector Kits, M8 and M9 chemical detection papers, chemical agent detection simulation kits, and related filter elements and detection apparatus. Troop sustainment represents the second pillar: heater modules and boil-in-bag egg modules for Unitized Group Ration programs, pull tabs for ration assembly, and self-heating food packages. Water purification and decontamination equipment rounds out the third category — desalter kits for seawater applications and decontaminating powder for M295 Individual Equipment Decontamination Kits. Representative recent prime work includes a $6.08 million delivery order from DLA Subsistence for heater module components (January 2025, completion December 2026), a $3.44 million delivery order from Army TACOM for 33,367 M256A2 Chemical Agent Detector Kits at $103.20 per unit (March 2024), and a $31.4 million single-award IDC with DLA Subsistence for heater modules running through May 2027 with 19 documented task orders totaling approximately $31.7 million.

Customer concentration reflects deep Army and Defense Logistics Agency relationships. The top five customer organizations account for 60% of recent awards by count and 92% of combined potential value. DLA Troop Support Subsistence anchors the portfolio with 24 awards and $74.6 million combined potential value, followed by Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal (14 awards, $81.3 million), and Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (23 awards, $42.4 million). Department of Homeland Security and DLA Land and Maritime round out the concentration. Award velocity has been uneven: 14 awards in 2022, declining to 7 in 2023, rising to 21 in 2024, settling to 12 in 2025, with 5 recorded through April 2026. Four awards totaling $12.6 million reach completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure.

Luxfer Magtech holds four named single-award indefinite delivery contracts anchoring task-order activity. The $31.4 million DLA Subsistence IDC for heater modules (SPE3S122DZ248), awarded May 2022 and running through May 2027, carries 20 documented task orders worth $35.1 million. The $11.48 million Army Materiel Command contract (W56HZV-22-D-0029) for M256A2 Chemical Agent Detector Kits runs through April 2025 with 6 task orders valued at $8.2 million. A newly awarded five-year IDC for M9 chemical paper with Army TACOM (ceiling $13.02 million, March 2026 through February 2031) kicked off with a $4.96 million first delivery order. A $6.24 million DLA Subsistence vendor-managed inventory contract for flameless ration heaters, awarded August 2025 and running through September 2030, includes an 8(a) sole-source set-aside designation — the only set-aside in Luxfer Magtech's recent prime footprint. Sixty task orders flow through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule for smaller deliveries (combined value $1.4 million).

Subcontract work is minimal at 1% of the recent award count. Luxfer Magtech subs to Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. on overseas personal protective equipment and optical insert procurement for Iraq and other overseas locations, with sub-award dates in December 2023 and July 2024.

The NAICS concentration underscores manufacturing specialization: 93 awards fall under All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing, 26 under Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing, and 10 under Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing. PSC clustering mirrors capability — 68 awards for Composite Food Packages (heater modules and ration components), 34 for Hazard-Detecting Instruments and Apparatus (chemical detection equipment), and 9 for Water Purification Equipment. The company performs manufacturing and distribution at its Cincinnati, Ohio facility, with some inventory management and distribution operations supporting vendor-managed inventory programs.