Ironwork

Bespoke Ironwork

Every year we produce well over 500,000 architectural castings ranging from small rail heads to 11 metre lighting columns. Our architectural castings are supplied throughout the UK and Europe (with a regular supply to Scandinavia) but we also take on specialist commissions further afield. Indeed our ironwork can be seen throughout the world. It is this variation…

Half Tonne Cast Iron Gutters

We have been involved in heritage contracts throughout the world for over 150 years but a recent contract is undoubtedly one of the most impressive. Working on one of the UK’s most famous buildings Ballantine Castings was awarded the contract for the replacement of over 11.5 tonnes of 3 metre long, cast iron gutters. We’ve…

The Ultimate Artisan Product?

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…

Celebrities and Castings

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…