Welcome to the story behind Vale Industrial Design.

I’m Fin, and in November 2024, I stepped away from employment as a Mechanical Design Engineer. At this point in my career, I had worked for an engineering consultancy and two engineering/manufacturing firms. The latter two companies were very different in size, as well as the industrial products they produced. However, as an engineer working across multiple disciplines, I noticed some key similarities in the issues and problems that were faced on a day to day basis concerning the design and manufacturing process. This often had a direct impact on the quality of the product produced and stifled innovation.

I started to dabble with the idea of starting something for myself. My drive to learn and push to create genuinely great products within the industrial sector has never left me. This, paired with the abililty to combat the issues mentioned earlier, provided immense motivation to start something.

So, in 2025 Vale Industrial Design was born. A process driven company that aims to put honesty, communication and planning, at the same level of importance as the quality of its technical solutions. Promoting continuous improvement, Vale Industrial Design puts learning from failure and flexibility right at the heart of its ethos, resulting in an agile operation, ready for change when required.