About HCR

An Introduction

HCR Caskets was founded in 1970 by Albert Russell and partners. Throughout the years, the company has been passed down by the family who have continued to provide their breadth of experience to the company which are still in place today.

In 2016, the company was acquired by Mark Steward, who previously founded M C Caskets in the South West of England. Mark Steward provides a wealth of experience in coffin manufacturing as well as the woodworking industry.

HCR Caskets Lye Stourbridge
HCR Caskets Lye Stourbridge

We continue to serve the funeral industry with an extensive range of high quality coffins and caskets suited to our customers. We take pride in the products we offer the funeral trade, thus establishing a partnership of trust and reliability so that they can provide a quality service to the families they serve.

Our Factory is based in Lye, West Midlands. We are ideally situated to supply our customers with a prompt service.

Our service is tailored to meet the customers needs and our commitment is to continue to provide impeccable quality that our customers have come to expect over the years.

The heart of British Manufacturing 

We manufacture in-house and do our best to control every part of the process. From hand picking our veneer ready to be pressed, nailing the wreath holders onto the coffin lids and fitting high quality satin liners.

HCR Caskets Lye Stourbridge

HCR Caskets has over 20 members of staff, by ensuring strict quality control and precision machining we are able to produce the high quality finishes for which we are renowned.