BJS was founded in Kilburn, London in 1945 and after 2 catastrophic floods in 1947, Ben Lewis (the B in BJS) bought out his partners. In the same year Leslie Lewis after leaving the Royal Navy offered to help his Father (for 6 weeks!). Leslie became BJS’s Managing Director in 1962 and is today the Executive Chairman of the BJS Group of Companies.

In the late 1960’s BJS began to re-engineer the Victorian process of Electrotyping now more commonly known as Electroforming. 

In 1988 the company refocused its efforts from decorative electroforming mainly for the silverware market towards higher volume industrial applications.