About Us

Since 2020 when it was founded, Bronze Betty has continually grown and innovated from our first hammer bottle opener to having over 500 products available, creating custom products for corporate gifts and selling our bronze art into Europe, America and Asia.

We use around 95% recycled metal in all of our products, we would love to use 100% recycled but sometimes the metals we need are not available.

Here is a video of Nathan Aherne, the founder of Bronze Betty, talking to you about Bronze Betty.

 

This is what he had to say about how Bronze Betty came to being.

I am passionate about unique creations. I travel in Asia regularly and when I do, I set aside several days to motorbike up and down every street for hours a day, looking for that unique creation, that unexplained find, that unique human being. I have been doing this for over 20 years.

One particular year - I was having coffee and I saw that the shop was selling a few bits of bronze cast into different shapes. I asked the store owner if they could tell me where they were made, they gave me a general location and a name.

I got on my motorbike hoping that I would find the place easily, it wasn't until the next day that I found this small shop front obscured by hundreds of other businesses around them. Their production was phenomenal, their bronze mesmerising, their dedication to quality second to none.

I was excited about what we could create together and I wasn't sure if I could make it work, I took some photos and went home and thought it through for a few months.

The result of that "chance" meeting is Bronze Betty.

Today Bronze Betty has two foundries in Indonesia where we cast our bronze and Brass. How we came to have these foundries is a whole other story. Before we get to cast our bronze and brass, we need to design it, which requires experts at designing bronze and brass products that can be created. We then need to transfer those designs into a 3D model on a computer. We then need to print it in 3D using our advanced 3D printers and 3D printing experts. Once that is done, we send these 3D prints to our foundries to be cast.