FORT
A British security manufacturer.
Quietly busy since 2003.
We design and fabricate steel security doors, windows, safe rooms, and shopfronts at our Luton factory. Our customer brands handle the conversations. We handle the steel.
Fort Engineering Ltd is the British company behind a small group of security brands. We design, manufacture, certify, and ship every product from a single factory in Luton, Bedfordshire.
Our customer brands deal with you directly – Fort Security Doors, Magnificent, FS Doors, Fort Premium, and Sash Vault. Each one set up for a specific kind of buyer. The factory is shared. So is the engineering.
We’re not a reseller. We don’t badge other people’s doors. Every Fort Engineering product is cut, welded, finished, and tested in the UK, by people we employ, against standards we’ve been certified to for over twenty years.
Origin
From 1999 to now.
A British arm of a foreign manufacturer, set up to make properly certified security products for the UK market when nobody else was.
Fort Engineering Ltd started in 2003, but the story begins four years earlier. The founder, Remis G., had been in security manufacturing since 1999, inside Skydas. The pattern he kept seeing across the UK market: high-spec security doors imported from abroad, marked up, sold without proper British certification. No UK factory was producing properly LPCB-tested security products at the spec level the market actually needed.
So in 2003 he opened one. Fort Engineering Ltd is Skydas extending into the British market – engineering and manufacturing discipline brought across, then certified to the standards UK specifiers ask for. LPS 1175 intruder resistance, FB4 ballistic, FD60 fire integrity, ISO 9001 quality. Every one of them earned at the Luton factory.
The customer side grew brand by brand. A homeowner doesn’t want the same conversation as a commercial buyer, and neither of them wants the same conversation as someone fitting out a prime London property. Over fifteen years we split the selling into separate brands: Fort Security Doors (2010), Magnificent (2013), FS Doors (2016), Fort Premium (2020), and Sash Vault (2024). Each one set up for a specific kind of customer. The factory stays under one roof.
The team has grown. The certifications list has grown. The thing that hasn’t changed: we still make every door, window, safe room, and shopfront in Luton.
1999
Founder Remis G. enters the security industry.
Inside Skydas, the parent company.
2003
Fort Engineering Ltd incorporated.
UK arm of Skydas. Luton workshop. First commercial security doors.
2010
Fort Security Doors brand launched.
2013
Magnificent brand launched.
2016
FS Doors brand launched.
Secured by Design licence holder, signed 26 November 2016.
Apr 2020
ISO 9001:2015 quality management certified.
LPCB Certificate 1607. Design, manufacture, sale, supply and installation of security and fire products.
Nov 2020
FB4 ballistic resistance certified. Fort Premium brand launched.
Vault FB4 doorset. Stops .44 Rem Magnum and .357 Magnum rounds. Tested by D.J. Goode and Associates, UKAS 4621.
Mar 2021
First LPS 1175 doors certified.
SR2 (FORT002 LP2S) and SR3 (FORT003 LP3S) hinged security doorsets. LPCB Certs 1607b and 1607c.
Dec 2021
FD60 fire-resistance and smoke-control verified.
FORT002 FD60. 60-minute fire integrity. EN 1634-1 and EN 1634-3.
Feb 2023
LPS 1175 SR4 doors certified.
FORT Vault 004 FB4, the safe-room class. LPCB Cert 1607d.
2024
Sash Vault brand launched.
2026
Factory expansion.
New fabrication capacity coming online.
Location
Luton, Bedfordshire.
And anywhere we can ship.
The factory is in Luton, half an hour north of London. Every product the company sells starts and finishes here – steel cutting, welding, assembly, finishing, glazing, and the final round of testing all happen on one site. Nothing is white-labelled. Nothing is shipped half-finished from somewhere else.
Most of what we make goes to UK addresses. A growing share leaves the country – we’ve shipped to Hong Kong, the United States, South Africa, and across the EU. International commercial work, private projects, embassies – jobs where the spec calls for British certification. We don’t chase international volume. When the contract justifies the freight, we deliver.
35
Factory
employees
10,000
Sq ft
manufacturing footprint
23
Years
manufacturing
Certifications
Certified to the standards specifiers ask for.
LPS 1175 for forced-entry resistance. PAS 24 for enhanced security. Secured by Design police preferred. ISO 9001 for the quality management behind all of it.
Go deeper
More about us.
01 / Operation
The factory
Inside our Luton manufacturing operation. Cutting, welding, finishing, testing – everything that goes on behind the certificates.
02 / Practice
Sustainability
Energy, materials, supply chain, workforce. How a steel-heavy manufacturer thinks about its environmental footprint.
03 / Hiring
Careers
Open roles across the factory and the customer brands. Engineering, fabrication, surveying, sales, fitting.
We manufacture.
Our brands sell.
Fort Engineering Ltd doesn’t take orders from end customers – the factory is busy enough making things. Selling, surveying, fitting, and after-care happen under our customer brands, each set up for a specific kind of buyer. Pick the one that fits your project.