Fort Vale Engineering looks to expand on success of turn-cut

摘要

Ted Fort OBE, who has recently become an octogenarian, started buying Okuma machining centres and lathes more than 40 years ago for his company, Fort Vale Engineering. It is now a global market leader for the manufacture of stainless steel valves and ancillaries used in the tank container industry for transportation of bulk liquids and gases by road, rail and sea. An ex Rolls-Royce engineer and chairman of his company, Fort recently stated: "Machine tools are our artillery and we always buy the best, without exception."