About
A foundry that learned coating, not a brand that ordered a container.
Ferrhaus owns the melt, the machining shop, the coating line and the reject pile. That is the difference a distributor feels when a tolerance has to hold across four consecutive orders instead of one sample.
A hex dumbbell is not a design anyone owns. The shape has been the same since the 1980s and every catalogue in this trade shows the same black hexagon. What differs is invisible in a photograph: whether the head is poured iron or a filled shell, whether the handle is one bar or two pressed studs, whether the rubber is virgin or reclaim, and whether anybody weighed the thing before stamping a number on it.
We build in Türkiye, an hour from the port and inside the customs union, which is why a European distributor gets a container in three to four weeks instead of the eight to ten a Far East order takes — and why a mid-season top-up is a real option rather than a next-year problem.
The range is deliberately narrow. Six lines, all of them dumbbells or the rack the dumbbells sit in. We are not the supplier for a distributor who wants one purchase order to cover a whole gym; we are the supplier for the one who has been burned on free weights and wants that part fixed.
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About
A foundry that learned coating, not a brand that ordered a container.
Own the melt
Iron is poured here and the mill certificate is ours, not a subcontractor's promise. When a head is wrong there is one place to look.
Publish the reading
Deviation, adhesion, PAH content and salt spray are printed with the batch. A number you can verify is worth more than an adjective you cannot.
Melt it again
Anything outside the window goes back to the furnace rather than to the next increment up. It costs output and it is the whole product.
Stay narrow
Six lines, one category. A catalogue that covers everything covers nothing at this tolerance.
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Compliance
The document set a distributor opens first.
Free weights are bought on chemistry and on what the coating does in year four, not on a quality-system logo. The set below goes out with the quotation, referenced by lot number so the buyer can verify it at the issuing body rather than trusting a scan.
- 28 t
- payload reached in a 20 ft
- 28
- days ex-works, standard order
- 4,800 t
- annual capacity
- 1 x 20 ft
- minimum order
- EN ISO 20957-1 · Stationary training equipment — general safety requirements and test methods, applied to the free-weight range
- REACH Annex XVII, entry 50 · Eight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in rubber and plastic parts with prolonged skin contact — max. 1.0 mg/kg, tested per compound batch
- EN 1561 · Grey cast iron, grade EN-GJL-200 — mill certificate issued per melt
- ISO 9227 NSS · Neutral salt spray on the chrome handle finish — report issued per plating lot
- ISO 9001:2015 · Quality management system covering the foundry, the machining shop and the coating line
- Declaration of Conformity · Issued per product line and named on the packing list of every shipment
Send the mix. We will send the stow plan.
Tell us the lines, the increments, the annual quantity and the destination port. You get a unit price, a container loading plan and a delivery date — usually within two working days.