Nº 0121904
Harbour bollard
Cast for the Gothenburg quays — forty-one of the original sixty still in service, tarred black and polished bright on top by a century of mooring lines.
Alloy EN-GJL-250Weight 310 kgFinish Tarred
Järngjuteri · Est. 1898
Bruksgatan 4 · Eskilstuna
A working iron foundry. Grey and ductile iron, poured by hand into sand moulds, exactly as it was on the first morning.
Heat Nº 8,412 · Furnace 1,481 °C
01 — The Works
Eight men and a cupola. That is how it started.
Gjuta opened in 1898 as a jobbing shop on the Bruksgatan canal, casting stove doors, sash weights and machine bases for whoever walked in with a pattern under their arm. The order book from that first winter survives; the handwriting is better than ours.
A century on, the work is the same in every way that counts. Pattern, mould, melt, pour. A 1.2-tonne induction furnace stands where the coke cupola stood, and every mould is still rammed and knocked out by hand. We cast what machines can't be bothered with: the one-off, the obsolete, the too-heavy, the no-longer-made.
- 1,481 °Ctap temperature, grey iron
- 8,412heats logged since 1898
- 5–900 kgcasting weight, pattern to piece
- 3pattern-makers on the bench
02 — Castings
From the catalogue
Nº 0871923
Fire bell, Västra station
An iron alarm bell struck every noon until 1967, when the sirens came. It hangs in the station museum now; the clapper is ours too.
Alloy Grey ironWeight 68 kgBore Ø 540 mm
Nº 2141951
Turbine volute
Spiral casing for the Klarälven small-hydro scheme, machined in-house on the 1911 planer. Still passing water sixty metres under the road.
Alloy EN-GJS-400Weight 640 kgPattern Split, 14 pcs
Nº 3911978
The last cupola tap
The coke cupola's final heat, poured into forty ingots and kept. One sits in the office window; the rest went to the men who tapped it.
Alloy Cupola ironWeight 40 × 12 kgKept Yes
Nº 4022016
Relit
After a nine-year silence the furnace was relit for a single commission: replacement window weights for the town hall. We never let it go cold again.
Alloy EN-GJL-200Weight 112 × 4 kgClient Eskilstuna kommun
03 — Process
Five verbs, no shortcuts
01
Charge
Pig iron, foundry returns and scrap steel, weighed to the kilo against the alloy sheet.
02
Melt
The induction furnace takes the charge to 1,481 °C in ninety minutes. We check carbon by wedge test, not by faith.
03
Pour
Two minutes of complete attention. The ladle does not wait, and neither does the iron.
04
Knock out
The mould is broken open at dawn. The casting comes out black, steaming, and roughly the shape of a promise kept.
05
Fettle
Gates and flash ground off by hand until the surface reads like skin, not like a process.
04 — Commission
Bring us a pattern.
Or a drawing. Or a broken original.
We take pattern work from 5 kg to 900 kg — architectural, marine, machinery, and the occasional bell. If it was ever cast, it can be cast again.