Fort Vale was founded in 1967 by Edward S. Fort O.B.E., manufacturing parts for the fuel oil delivery industry.
By 1972 we had increased our staff to 13.
In 1975 we purchased larger premises in Nelson, and were very fortunate to be at the start of the tank container market in Europe. By this time we had developed the product range, had an experienced workforce and excellent factory and machine tools.
In 2007, the 40th Anniversary of Fort Vale, the company employs 240 people in the UK and has offices all over the World with the Fort Vale Group having 550 personel in total.
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2007 marked the
40th anniversary
of Fort Vale |
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1967 |
Fort Vale Engineering
established in Colne, Lancashire, UK |
| 1975 |
Move to larger premises
in Nelson |
| 1981 |
Awarded Queen's Award
for Export Achievement |
| 1982 |
Fort Vale Inc. established
in Houston |
| 1984 |
Nelson manufacturing facility expanded by acquisition of Valley Mills complex |
| 1986 |
Awarded Queen's Award
for Export Achievement |
| 1987 |
Ted Fort, Chairman, receives
OBE for services to industry |
| 1989 |
Fort Vale bv established
in Rotterdam |
| 1995 |
Fort Vale Russian Federation
established in Moscow |
| 2002 |
Fort Vale Shanghai Ltd
manufacturing plant established in China |
| 2006 |
Fort Vale Pte Limited
established in Singapore |
| 2008 |
Awarded Queen's Award For Enterprise: International Trade 2008. |
| 2008 |
Fort Vale Australia established in North Geelong, Victoria |
| 2008 |
Fort Vale moves to a new state of the art premises in Simonstone, Lancashire, UK |
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