Ballantine Boness Iron Co.Limited (SC010292): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2013-09-11
- Administrators
- James Bernard Stephen, Francis Graham Newton
- Administrators' firm
- BDO
- Formerly
- A. Ballantine and Sons Limited
- Incorporated
- 1919-04-01
- Location
- Glasgow
- Industry
- 32990 Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Why it went into administration
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Sustained trading losses
From the administrators' statement
> The Company was incorporated on 1 April 1919 and operates from owned property in Bo’ness. The Company’s principal activity is Iron Foundry.
> The Company has a rich and expansive history of metalwork in the UK and beyond. Having started in the early 1820s in Bo’ness the business has been run by the Ballantine family and is now in its 7“ generation.
> The Company has supplied the construction and engineering industries with tens of thousands of different castings and has built up a solid reputation for combining the most intricate and traditional craftsmanship skills with the most advanced, modern engineering techniques. For this reason Ballantine Bo’ness lron Co. Limited has, for the last two centuries, been one of Britain’s foremost producers of architectural, ornamental and structural ironwork in the UK and beyond.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2013-11-06) · Companies House register