Durham Foundry (Sheffield) Ltd, along with our parent company, C Butcher and Co Ltd, is a jobbing iron foundry based at Harleston Street, Sheffield, England. We are over a hundred years old and are still owned and managed by the same family.
We produce castings in grey, ductile, high chrome wear resistant, high nickel heat and corrosion resistant, compacted graphite and austempered ductile cast irons. We can also produce castings to a bespoke analysis if required. Our customer base covers the engineering, decorative, architectural and artistic sectors and we can supply castings from one off up to small to medium batch production using Alkali Phenolic resin bonded sands. Our workforce of highly skilled moulders can work from complex loose pattern equipment, particularly where low volumes are required, whilst our moulding line is suited for batch production.
Our long trading history, coupled with an investment programme that has enabled us to keep up with modern production methods and environmental legislation has meant that we continue to quote competitively for castings within our weight and size range. All our castings are produced to a current ISO material specification, along with any further certification which a customer may require. We are also ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 accredited. Our diverse customer base has also given us experience in a wide range of applications for cast iron , including pumps and valves, forges, foundries and rolling mills, automotive and aerospace, a wide range of OEM’s, quarries and mines, railways and rolling stock, local authorities and artists and sculptors. We also have long term trading relationships with local pattern makers, machine shops and surface finishers which enable us to quote for the complete supply of the finished casting.
Weight, Size and Quantity Range
We can quote for castings up to 1100 kg in grey iron, 600 kg in ductile, ADI and compacted graphite irons and 350 kg in the highly alloyed wear, heat and corrosion resistant irons such as Ni Hard and Ni Resist.
Our maximum box size is 9ft x 5ft and we can accommodate most combinations of size and weight within those parameters. We are happy to quote for one offs and can go up to medium batch production, particularly at the smaller end of our weight range, where production is done on our boxless moulding line. Our website also shows examples of projects we have been involved with, both engineering and architectural, which gives some idea of our wide range of capabilities.