bollards

The use of cast iron bollards provides a very traditional theme to a street furniture project. For centuries cast iron has been used in streetscapes across the world, with a reputation for being strong, durable, robust and anti-corrosive it is the ideal choice.  Cast iron has an excellent strength to weight ratio with lower density and higher thermal conductivity than steels at comparable tensile strength levels.

The look of cast iron often lends itself perfectly to a heritage, Old World style of street furniture often associated with product gold highlighting and banding.

Top quality cast iron bollards

All ESF cast iron street furniture products are finished in black as standard. If you require any other colours, contact us. ESF patterns are stored and maintained so that any product previously ordered can be matched exactly again ensuring the continuity of your street furniture purchases no matter what timescale passes by.

Cast iron is a fully recyclable source; therefore it helps to reduce the environmental impact of your streetscape.  ESF‘s Simplicity Collection is cast using the cleanest technologies available, in accordance with ISO 14001 environmental management procedures.

All Simplicity Collection cast iron street furniture products are finished with Plascoat or PPA 571 - a thermoplastic coating powder that can be applied by either fluidised bed dipping or by electrostatic spraying.

The benefits of Plascoat are: 

• environmentally friendly
• contains no VOCs, TGIC, plasticiser,  isocyanates, halogens and heavy metals
• approved for contact with food and drinking water
• will not chip or crack in service
• certain graffiti can be wiped clean
• attractive gloss finish
• resistance to salt, sea, sand and sun

Plascoat has been extensively tested in a number of laboratories and has been used and monitored for many years in applications from the Tropics to the Arctic.
 
Plascoat outlasts most, if not all traditional coating powders in terms of UV, salt-spray and pollution resistance, flexibility, resistance to sand abrasion and cold temperature properties.

Simplcity in cast iron

All of ESF’S Simplicity Collection cast iron bollards are badged ESF.  Optional customer logos and/or crests  etc can be incorporated at an additional cost. Please contact us for further detail.

Bespoke Service

ESF can design and manufacture bespoke products -  new design concepts, updating current designs and incorporating logos, crests etc into existing designs. Please contact us for further information.

A background

Bollards have a variety of designs and uses from those designed to give way on minimum impact to those designed to withstand heavy forces. They are perfect for traffic calming, separating bike lanes, marking off taxi rank areas, delineating and protecting pedestrian zones, preventing on pavement parking and protecting buildings. They can enhance the aesthetics of an area and co ordinate with other existing street furniture elements such as seating, litter bins and recycling units. Moreover some can be adapted to work as post and panel, post and rail or post and chain, with the bollard becoming the post. 
Therefore, they can have a huge effect an area and can contribute to a safer, more attractive and easier to navigate around environment for us all.

Types.

• Fixed - the position cannot be moved or adjusted, surface mounted or built into the ground.
• Removable - can be manually removed when opened with a key but the base is permanently fixed to the ground.
• Retractable - rises and retracts when activated by various controllers. Can allow quick access i.e. for emergency services or immediately restrict an area.
• Telescopic -  “telescope” in length and can be manually retracted to street level when opened with a key
• Collapsible - can be naturally dropped to the ground when opened with a key, it then lays flat along the ground.
• Bell - short and bell shaped, the slope allows a vehicles wheel to hit and roll around it. Useful in areas where drivers do frequent U turns.

Manchester cast iron bollard

As one of our best sellers the Manchester is incredibly popular and versatile. It features a timeless classic design with a rounded top and banding.
It is available in 3 options -

• ESF/B/101 standard Manchester
• ESF/B/101BP baseplated Manchester
• ESF/B/101REM removable Manchester

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Blackpool cast iron

Standard with decorative band and rounded top. View.

Blackburn cast iron

Robust with a fluted trunk and pillar box top. View.

Spherical cast iron

Solid circular shaped, ideal for preventing vehicles from parking on the pavement. View.

Exeter cast iron

Appealing to the eye with bulb shaped top and trunk.View.

Oxford cast iron

Heavy duty with ribbed detail and peaked top.View.

Towpath cast iron

Typically a mooring bollard for waterside applications with base plate fixing and symmetrical head. View.

Cannon cast iron

Cannon shaped with half exposed cannon ball top. View.

Belfast cast iron

Attractive slim shape, with rounded top and 114mm diameter.

Harbour cast iron

Attractive cast iron, suitable for post and chain. View.