Westley Group has completed the acquisition of the former Mather & Platt stainless <link _top>steel foundry in Newton Heath, East Manchester, UK, from Weir Group plc for an undisclosed sum.
Immortalised by LS Lowry in the Salford artist s 1943 painting Going to Work , the plant had been known in recent years as Weir <link _top>Foundry, after it was bought by the Weir Group, but is now reverting to its traditional name of Mathers <link _top>Foundry in recognition of its heritage.
The <link _top>foundry makes high integrity cast components and complex alloy products in duplex, super duplex, and ZERON cast alloys for the pump and valve industry. It counts Rolls Royce, Corus and Clyde Pumps among its customers.
Mathers <link _top>Foundry joins the Westley Group of companies, which is one of Europe’s largest ferrous and <link _top>non-ferrous foundry and engineering groups, employing more than 450 people with an annual turnover of more than £40 million.
Westley Group directors Rob and James Salisbury confirmed that their acquisition of the Manchester <link _top>foundry will safeguard the future of the plant and highlighted that it was central to their future strategic plans for the business and the Group.
