W.B. White Foundry

What W.B. White Foundry does

W.B. White Foundry Limited is a privately held UK foundry in operation since 1907, situated in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, less than five minutes from the M62 motorway. The company produces grey iron, aluminium, and alloy castings for UK customers across machine tool, automotive, valve, power transmission, roller shutter door, and street furniture applications, offering one-off bespoke items as well as batch runs of 30 to 1,000 units. Casting weights range from 0.5 kg to 1,000 kg, served by two sand-based production systems — a semi-mechanised green sand plant (up to 35 kg) and a furan airset plant (up to 1,000 kg) with two high-speed ISS mixers and an ISS sand reclamation system — supplemented by aluminium gravity die casting, an in-house pattern and mould making shop, and finishing facilities including shot blasting, fettling, hardness testing, and crack detection. The company is ISO 9001 accredited and serves both small businesses and multi-national organisations on a quote-based, project-specific pricing model with direct sales via phone, fax, email, and post.

The business operates as part of the W.B. White Foundry Group alongside sister companies SG Castings (a ductile iron foundry in Nelson, Lancashire) and Architectural Street Furnishings (a street furniture distributor), jointly supplying grey iron, ductile iron, aluminium, and finished architectural products. The commercial model is B2B and direct: customers submit project enquiries, the engineering team advises on casting design, material specification, and pattern equipment, and products are shipped from the single Brighouse site on shrink-wrapped, palletised loads. The stated environmental metrics — 100% sand recycled in green sand, 85% reclaimed in furan, and raw material to finished product within 20 metres on-site — are positioned as sustainability differentiators, though no quantitative revenue, headcount beyond the 1-10 range, or growth signals are disclosed in the available data.

Name

W.B. White Foundry

Legal name

W.B. White Foundry Limited

Website

https://wbwhitefoundry.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1907

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

W.B. White Foundry is a Brighouse-based UK cast iron and aluminium foundry operating since 1907, producing grey iron, aluminium, and alloy castings (0.5–1,000 kg) for UK machine tool, automotive, valve, power transmission, and street furniture customers via direct B2B sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Iron and Aluminium Foundry Services

NAICS

Aluminum Foundries (except Die-Casting) (331524), Iron Foundries (331511), Nonferrous Metal Foundries (33152)

SIC

Nonferrous Foundries (Castings) (3360), Iron & Steel Foundries (3320)

akta.pro primary industry

Aluminum Casting & Ingot/Billet/Slab Production (IMAKACAE)

Keywords

• Cast iron foundry
• Aluminium castings
• Sand casting services
• Pattern making services
• Metal casting manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Brighouse

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Cast Iron and Alloy Casting Services: Custom and batch production of grey iron, aluminium, and alloy castings. Production facilities include Cupula Furnace (3 tonne/hour iron capacity) and Morgan Gas Furnace (160kg/hour aluminium capacity).
2. Pattern and Mould Making Services: In-house pattern shop providing manufacturing and modification of pattern equipment for customers requiring bespoke casting solutions.
3. Finished Cast Products: Direct sale of finished cast products including street furniture, automotive components, machine tool castings, valves, and architectural products.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

W.B. White Foundry is a metal casting foundry producing custom and batch grey iron, aluminium, and alloy castings (0.5kg to 1000kg) using furan (airset), green sand, and gravity die casting methods. The company offers in-house pattern making, mould making, finishing, and inspection services under ISO 9001 accreditation, serving industries including machine tools, automotive, street furniture, valves, power transmission, and roller shutter doors.

Product overview

W.B. White Foundry is a cast iron and aluminium foundry in operation since 1907, offering grey iron castings, aluminium and alloy castings, and ductile iron castings through sister company SG Castings. The company provides comprehensive casting services including pattern making, mould making (furan air-set and green sand production), engineering, and finishing. Their product portfolio includes ornamental and decorative castings, jigs and fixtures, gully grates, machine tool castings, outdoor lighting products, valve castings, power transmission castings, automotive castings, roller shutter door components, and street furniture. The foundry operates sister companies SG Castings (specialising in ductile/SG iron) and Architectural Street Furnishings (street furniture), all ISO 9001 accredited.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% sand recycled in green sand casting process
• +2 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• SG CastingscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSister company based in Nelson, Lancashire specialising in pouring all grades of SG (Ductile) Iron. Provides dedicated ductile iron casting facilities for products requiring higher impact and wear resistance qualities. The combined expertise of WB White Foundry and SG Castings helps customers specify the right grade of iron for their application.
• Architectural Street Furnishings (ASF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSister company specialising in manufacture and supply of high quality street furniture and architectural metalwork. ASF supplies bollards and street furniture in engineering grade 250 and all grades of ductile cast iron, with links to both WB White Foundry and SG Castings enabling comprehensive product range.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Barr Castings: UK-based iron foundry producing grey and ductile iron castings to customer specification across engineering, municipal and architectural markets. Closely comparable in scale, materials and bespoke service model.
• Goodwin Steel Castings: UK steel and iron foundry supplying cast components to similar industrial, marine and infrastructure buyers. Comparable bespoke and short-run batch production model with overlapping end-use applications.
• Whessoe: Historic UK-based foundry and engineering business specialising in heavy castings and fabricated metalwork. Comparable in heritage, bespoke manufacturing capability and industrial customer base.
• William Lee Foundry: UK-based iron foundry producing grey and ductile iron castings for similar end markets including engineering, automotive and infrastructure. Directly comparable in size, geography and casting-method mix to WB White Foundry.

Emerging players

• Castings Technology International: UK-based specialist casting engineering consultancy and technology provider. Comparable in casting-process expertise and UK foundry market presence, though operating in an enabling/technical-services capacity rather than production.

Broad incumbents

• Sheffield Forgemasters: Major UK-based forging and casting group with much larger scale than WB White. Comparable in serving UK industrial customers with cast metal components but operates across a significantly wider product and size range.
• Weir Group: UK-listed engineering group serving mining, infrastructure and power markets with significant metal casting and component manufacturing heritage. Comparable end-market exposure to industrial and infrastructure buyers but at far larger scale.
• Saint-Gobain PAM (UK): UK operations of a major international cast iron products group, including iron castings for infrastructure (drainage, gully tops, street ironwork). Comparable in producing cast iron products for UK municipal/infrastructure buyers but at much greater scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

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