Valeport Ltd.
We have more than 50 years’ experience designing and manufacturing oceanographic, hydrographic and hydrometric instruments. We are committed to supplying innovative, high quality, reliable instrumentation, and our philosophy of keeping development and manufacturing entirely in-house means we can retain complete control over all aspects of our product range. Our stunning 40,000 sq.ft riverside premises in the picturesque town of Totnes in the southwest of the UK houses every facility required for design, CNC machining, environmental testing, assembly, calibration and servicing. This end-to-end approach means customers can have complete faith in our expertise and be assured that we will continue to provide them with the high levels of quality, performance and service they have come to expect.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Maritime/Shipbuild/Water Transport - Sea and Marine Monitoring
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 1969
- Employees:
- 11-100
- Turnover:
- 10,000,000 - 100,000,000 €
Our Philosophy
Valeport’s philosophy of keeping development and manufacturing entirely in-house guarantees we retain complete control over every aspect of our product range and lifetime service.
This is the essence of our unsurpassed global reputation.
For our valued customers, it means total assurance that we will, now and in future, deliver the levels of quality, performance and service they have come to expect.
We answer to nobody except our customers because Valeport is a 100% family-owned business with no external investors and no shareholders outside Charles Quartley’s immediate family.
Asking ourselves “What would I want if I were the customer?” is at the heart of everything we do.
Initiatives like these are the result:
- 12-month service warranty on any Valeport product, no matter its age or history. Send it for a service every year, and the warranty never runs out.
- Exclusive use of titanium as standard in virtually all subsea products to eliminate corrosion issues associated with lower cost metals.
- Anti-static environment for all storage, assembly, test, calibration and R&D areas within the premises to virtually eliminate electronic faults.
- Our own CNC machine shop for production of all mechanical components, ensuring total control over quality and supply.
- Pressure testing of every product, both new and serviced, before dispatch to guarantee it will perform in the field.
- Fast delivery of standard products by investment in stock levels to eliminate external factors such as “Just in Time” supply chains.
Meet the Team
People stay, and they grow, at Valeport.
Exceptional loyalty to our purpose and mission has resulted in a stable team with unrivalled knowledge and passion.
For our customers, this has enabled long-term personal relationships of great trust and value – one assuring constant in an ever-changing world. For us, it means we can invest heavily in training in new technologies and techniques with confidence that the knowledge gained will remain in-house.
We value and appreciate each member of the Valeport team. On this page, we have listed customer-facing employees who you might communicate with. Of course, the Valeport team is made up of many employees and we all work collaboratively to help our customers, suppliers and the company flourish.
Valeport`s Premises
In 2003 Valeport moved to larger premises, of the Sandquay building, from their original site in Dartmouth to their current location on the banks of the River Dart in the historic town of Totnes.
The Reade building was added in 2013 to more than double the workspace to 28,000 sq. ft. and houses our entire production facility with a fully equipped CNC workshop, state of the art calibration laboratory and two floors of ESD protected assembly workshop.
In 2021 the R&D, administration, sales and marketing teams moved into the adjacent Radcliffe house, which also houses our new conference suite for product demonstrations and events. Valeport now has nearly 45,000 sq. ft. of space dedicated to our instrumentation design, manufacture, and service.
We export the vast majority of our products directly and so we keep more than 70 agents in over 54 countries to ensure a responsive and efficient global service.
For a virtual tour of Valeport’s premises please see the video below.
Valeport History
Entering its second half-century as a world-leader in underwater instrumentation, Valeport can now look back on its journey since 1969 as a mirror of the innovation and progress in the sector as a whole.
Entering its second half-century as a world-leader in underwater instrumentation, Valeport can now look back on its journey since 1969 as a mirror of the innovation and progress in the sector as a whole.