SPECIAL FOCUS UK MANUFACTURING
FULTON MARKS 50 YEARS of manufacturing in the UK
Fulton has celebrated 50 years of manufacturing heat transfer solutions in the UK by hosting a ceremony and party at the M-Shed in Bristol for distributors, dignitaries and employees past and present
stablished in Bristol in 1966 and initially manufacturing a range of vertical tubeless steam boilers, Fulton is today an important manufacturing base in the corporation’s global network that also includes production facilities in the USA, Canada and China. Ronald and Bramley Palm (the son and grandson of Lewis Palm, Fulton’s founder) from Fulton’s parent company in the USA flew in to attend the celebrations. They were joined, amongst others, by former managing director and co-founder of Fulton Boiler Works, Ian Davidson, and former sales and marketing director, Gordon Bareham, who were both asked to take to the floor and give speeches. Congratulating employees past and present on their achievements over the past 50 years, Fulton’s managing director, Carl Knight, said the company’s Bristol-based manufacturing and design facility makes it possible to design, engineer and manufacture products more efficiently and assemble completed units for whenever and wherever they are needed for domestic and export customers. During his speech on the day, former sales and marketing director, Gordon Bareham, said: “I joined Fulton in the early 1990s as the company was going through major changes in every department and further centralising its
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Fulton hosted a ceremony and party to celebrate 50 years of manufacturing
At the ceremony, employees past and present were
congratulated on their achievements over the past five decades
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operations in Bristol. This meant building a new office block and investing in plant, machinery and an extensive mezzanine floor for storage and production offices at the former Broomhill Road facility. This was real proof of the owners’ commitment to the future of Fulton in the UK; and was quickly followed by the adoption of the ISO9001 Quality Assurance standard, with the British Standards Institute rating Fulton as an excellent example of a specialist manufacturer following and meeting the standard.” Bareham added: “However, perhaps the most progressive change for Fulton at that time – and a first for any UK- based steam boiler manufacturer – was the company’s move from simply manufacturing steam boilers, to designing and building skid-mounted and pre-fabricated packaged plant room heat transfer solutions, some of which didn’t even feature a Fulton boiler. While a steep learning curve for every department, Fulton succeeded and I’m proud to have played a part in what was a very important transition for the company.” For the company’s dignitaries,
distributors and former employees, the celebrations started with a tour of the current Bristol manufacturing
facility which, on the day, housed Fulton’s largest ever plant room build featuring two of the company’s fuel-fired FB horizontal boilers. Summarising, Bareham went on to say that ten years ago he organised the 40th anniversary celebrations at the old facility in Broomhill Road and has fond memories of that day. “Today, when I see the magnificent new facility and the ‘monster’ plant room in build, together with the lavish celebrations, it is clear that Fulton has made great progress in the last ten years.”
Fulton T: 0117 972 3322
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