Cast Iron Balcony

We always love a challenge in the foundry and creating a fully bespoke cast iron balcony with full building cladding was no exception. The cast iron balcony and staircase were fairly run of the mill but creating the cladding was more of a bespoke process. In total over 48 individual castings make up all of…

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…

Cast Iron Balustrade

Every year we manufacture thousands of bespoke cast iron balustrade items for clients throughout the UK and Europe. We have an incomparable range of cast iron items perfect for interior and exterior use. Our pattern range covers almost every conceivable design requirement and as is broad enough to cover most regional variations throughout the UK and…

Ballantine Castings Iron Foundry UK New Catalogue

Architectural Iron and Street Furniture Catalogue

NEW ARCHITECTURAL IRON CASTINGS AND STREET FURNITURE CATALOGUE LAUNCHED We are pleased to introduce the 1st edition of our new architectural iron castings and street furniture catalogue. We believe our new catalogue gives commercial, private, domestic and public clients access to the single largest collection of architectural castings in the UK if not the world. Standard products…

Cast Iron Paving Units

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…

Cast Iron Street Furniture

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. …

Aluminium Castings

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…

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…