20th Century
At its peak in the 1950s the company employed around 10,000 people.
In 1957, a partnership with Air Products of the USA helped establish that company in the United Kingdom.
In the early 1960s the company acquired locomotive manufacturer F. C. Hibberd & Co Ltd.
The Codnor Park works closed in 1965.
The company was acquired by Lord Hanson in the 1968 for £4.7 million. The company was subsequently split up into Butterley Engineering, Butterley Brick and Butterley Aggregates. Butterley Hall, Outram's home and later the companies offices, was sold off to become the headquarters of Derbyshire Constabulary. In the mid 1980s the foundry closed down and when the surplus buildings were demolished, the original blast furnace of 1790 was exposed.
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