Giscol

Giscol (registered as a company in 1888) was the trading name of the Glasgow Iron & Steel Company Limited an iron and steel producer with foundries and iron works situated in West Central Scotland. Today the name is used by Caradale Traditional Brick Ltd after a management buyout of the company in 1997. Today the company has two brickworks - the Etna works at Armadale, West Lothian and the Mayfield works at Carluke, Lanarkshire.

Caradale is unique in the traditional brick making sector in that it uses shale
clays. They're more difficult to work but they make a harder, more durable brick suitable for the extremes of British weather.