Burdale Financial Limited, the comprehensive asset based lending specialist, and subsidiary of Wachovia Corporation (formerly First Union Corporation), America's forth largest business group, has provided a Ј25 million financing facility to Sheffield Forgemasters, a subsidiary of Atchison Casting Corporation of the USA. The 3-year facility is to finance the growth and development of the company in response to the increased levels of demand it has seen over the past 12 months.