Manufacturing Today Issue - 253 October 2026 | Page 226

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When Peter Staveley joined the Fort Vale Group as a 16-year-old apprentice, he had no way of knowing where the journey would lead. Forty years on, he is now Managing Director of Fort

Vale Nuclear Ltd( FVNL), the Lancashirebased company, which specializes in supplying precision-engineered components to the UK’ s nuclear sector. With decommissioning ongoing, new reactors taking shape, and defense spending rising, the business is positioning itself for growth across the industry.
FVNL began life in 2008 as a division of Fort Vale Engineering, taking the group’ s core engineering competencies into a new sector and by 2012, it had grown enough to become a company in its own right. Peter clarifies that the reason for the split came down to the nature of the work.
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