Complete quality control

Fort Vale Engineering Limited ( Fort Vale ) was formed in 1967 by Ted Fort , in Colne , Lancashire , who went on to receive an OBE for services to industry . “ From a small building and three people , we steadily grew to occupy increasingly larger buildings in Nelson , Lancashire ,” begins Ian Wilson , Managing Director . “ With a workforce that was growing in both size and skillsets , I joined the company in 1978 . In 2008 , the business moved its head office and manufacturing facility to new , state-of-the-art premises in Simonstone , Lancashire , which is where we are now . It ’ s a 75-acre site , on which we have 30 acres of industrial planning , and the remainder is brownfield acreage . We bought the site in 2006 and moved in two years later . The main factory building already existed , but we did a lot of work to bring it up to standard , including building a brand-new office block .