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Leak Sealing process developed leak-sealing-developed_thumb 01/01/1920

Furmanite Leak-Sealing process is Developed The under pressure Leak Sealing process is developed by Eugene Clay Furman at the Newport …

More First DIY Leak-Sealing Kit old-furmanite-leak-sealing-equipment 01/01/1924

First DIY Leak-Sealing Kit The first do-it-yourself Leak Sealing kits were developed and marketed by Clay Furman and while they …

More Long Standing Relationships Sales-Brochure-1926_thumb 01/01/1926

Long Standing Relationships US customer reference list that includes individual war ships in the US Navy, US steel companies and …

More 1st Patent is filed in 1927 furmanite-patents1 01/01/1927

1st Patent is filed in 1927 The Furmanite patent for the leak sealing process filed in 1927 was the first …

More Furmanite moves Overseas Liverpool-Exibition_thumb 06/01/1927

Furmanite moves Overseas First overseas agents appointed to market the leak Sealing kits including in the United Kingdom and Europe…

More Costs of a steam leak Sales-Brochure-1926-pg-8_thumb 06/01/1928

Price List from 1926 Table detailing costs of allowing a steam leak based on $4 per ton for “Long coal”. …

More Furmanite is thinking global furmanite-the-skys-the-limit_thumb 01/01/1929

Furmanite is thinking global A brief history of the United Kingdom Company written by A W Forsyth (OBE) in September 1973 …

More Technology Development leak-sealing-diagram 11/22/1934

Technology Development Furmanite Expands Engineering on Leak Sealing Technology. Photographs taken from a 1934 sales brochure together with schematics of …

More Growing Furmanite purchase-letter_thumb 05/01/1960

Growing Furmanite Letter from the Chairman of Furmanite Engineering based in Birkenhead, England to his lawyer requesting information on a …

More New Direction New-Technology_thumb 01/01/1966

New Direction Alan Forsyth, acting as a consultant to Furmanite Engineering (1929) advised the Board to move from selling low …

More Never compromise on the high quality Company-History-July-1979_thumb 07/01/1979

Never to compromise on the high quality A brief history of the United Kingdom Furmanite organisation written by Joyce Hainsworth, the …

More Best in the business were called NASA---Discovery-Team_thumb 09/01/1988

Best in the business were called Furmanite successfully seals nitrous oxide leakage on the Space Shuttle “Discovery” pre launch September …

More Start of Modern Furmanite company-overview 11/22/1991

Start of Modern Furmanite The common shares of Furmanite were acquired by Kaneb Inc on 24th January 1991. Furmanite remains …

More Acquisition-GSG Division Acquisition-GSG-Division_thumb 01/13/2006

Acquisition of Flow-Serve GSG Division Furmanite as part of Xanser Corporation acquired the General Services Group (GSG) of Flow-Serve corporation …

More Corporate Name Change Corporate-Name-Change_thumb 01/13/2007

Corporate Name Change Xanser Corporation (NYSE:XNR) changed the company’s name to Furmanite Corporation, and the company’s shares were traded on …

More Acquisition of SLM Acquisition-of-SLM_thumb 04/13/2011

Furmanite Corporation Acquires Self Leveling Machining Technology Furmanite expanded  its global on-site machining capabilities through the acquisition of Self Leveling …

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Furmanite is thinking global

A brief history of the United Kingdom Company written by A W Forsyth (OBE) in September 1973 describing the development from its early establishment sometime prior to 1929, then liquidated and reformed as Furmanite Engineering Company (1929) Limited through to its move from selling “kits” to a full Leak sealing service company employing its own engineers and Leak sealing Technicians. This history also describes how the United Kingdom company reunites with the original US Furmanite Corporation as well as establishes operations in Europe and Australia. This history is written on letterhead showing the United Kingdom Company has now moved to Kendal in the North West of England where today it still has its United Kingdom headquarters. Furmanite is now a World-wide organisation with highly skilled personnel in over fifty countries ranging from Azerbaijan to Alaska, and an ability to mobilise “flying squads” to anywhere it does not have a permanent base, at hours notice.

Specialty industrial service and product solutions provider, Furmanite supplies an ever increasing range of industries with maintenance tools and key engineering services such as leak sealing, hot tapping and line stopping. For comprehensive plant and pipeline maintenance and asset uptime maximization, rely on Furmanite.

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