Its primary business activities would be reforging old iron into bar stock, and producing heavy forgings.

The business plan of the company for making bar stock out of wrought iron scrap was founded on some calculations.

[2] The company was still active in this branch in the 1840s but had to give up because of the expansion of the iron industry in surrounding countries.

Part of the rails of the 1839 Amsterdam Haarlem railway, that was exploited by the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij was made by the company.

In the early years the company also made iron chains from the bar stock that it produced.