The new UFe2B6 compound was synthesized by arc melting followed by crystal growth during annealing for 5 h at 1700 degrees C. The structure was refined down to R = 0.011 and wR(2) = 0.025 from single crystal X-ray diffraction data. UFe2B6 crystallizes with the CeCr2B6-type structure (Immm space group no. 71, a = 0.31372(6) nm, b = 0.61813(11) nm, c = 0.82250(17) nm, V = 0.15950(5) nm(3), Z = 2. rho = 4.316 mg/m(3)). Preliminary magnetic results points to the inexistence of any magnetic anomaly down to 2K. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.