Ballantine Castings have been lucky enough to play a part in modern projects that seek to retain the cast iron designs of Britain’s past and merge them with the most up to date structural and architectural techniques. Over the years we have taken on many projects outside of our normal remit. Our flexibility in terms…
It has been an extremely busy year at Ballantine Castings – especially in the run up to Christmas. We’ve completed the Albert Bridge Restoration Project, supplied over 450 custom designed paving slabs for a project in Edinburgh, supplied over 20,000 railing bars and stair spindles to architectural clients throughout the UK and Europe and have continued…
We have an incomparable range of standard cast iron railings perfect for exterior use. Our pattern range covers almost every conceivable design requirement and as is broad enough to cover every regional variation throughout the UK and further afield. Indeed some of our patterns date back to the early 1800s and can be found throughout…
Ballantine Castings have a vast range of traditional Victorian patterns for all aspects of cast iron street furniture. Indeed we believe it to be the largest selection in the UK. We have been supplying traditional street furniture to clients throughout the world for over 150 years; providing an ergonomic, aesthetic and durable option for both commercial and domestic clients. …
Although we are predominantly known as an iron foundry we have seen a large shift in 2016 for customers looking to acquire aluminium castings across all industry sectors. Demand for both engineering and architectural castings has grown to the extent that we have invested heavily in a new aluminium melting furnace to further extend our…
We carry out many large scale projects in iron across the architectural, engineering and construction sectors (to see a selection of these please click here), however it is often the large architectural conservation projects that we can be most proud of. And none more so than the extremely complex refurbishment of the Albert Bridge, Glasgow. …
Look anywhere these days and you’re never far from an artisan product; our morning coffee, the chocolate bar for lunch, all purportedly ‘hand-crafted’ to the highest possible degree. A brief search on the internet defines an artisan product or the artisan producer as ‘a skilled craft worker who makes or creates things by hand that may be functional or strictly decorative. Artisans…
Well May was a rather exciting month for Ballantines welcoming not one, but two, Hollywood celebrities to the foundry whilst still getting on with the day to day job of manufacturing. Our box yard was transformed into a film set for the filming of the BBC’s Rillington Place starring Tim Roth and Samantha Morton with the…
We are currently looking to hire a graduate to work as an on-line catalogue designer. With a product range in excess of 100,000 items, we only have around 1000 digitally logged and available to view on-line. This has proved to be limiting over the last few years. This project aims to build, design and roll out a new architectural catalogue…