About Us — Fortitude21

Who We Are

We build the container, not the story around it

Fortitude21 makes jerry cans and liquid containers. Food-grade stainless for potable water, coated steel for fuel, aluminium where weight is the constraint, and UN-rated HDPE for industrial liquids. Two manufacturing countries, 7 categories, chosen by what goes inside.

The brand sits inside a defence-trade group that has been supplying ammunition boxes and metal containers to military standards since 2000, and currently ships to customers on six continents. Fortitude21 is new; the production base, the tooling discipline, the factory relationships across Vietnam and China and the documentation habits are not. Only the contents changed.

The Fortitude21 range laid out in the showroom: steel, stainless and plastic cans in NATO, horizontal and compact formats — The range in our showroom. Every format we press, in one room.

Map of the Fortitude21 network: factories in Hangzhou, China and in Vietnam, with the global sales office in Singapore

Where We Are

Two production countries, one contract desk

Singapore holds the commercial relationship. Vietnam and China hold the tooling. You deal with one office and one specification, whichever plant runs your order.

Singapore — sales and contracts

Quotations, specifications, export documentation and the contract itself. One point of contact in a neutral jurisdiction, on a working day that overlaps Europe and Asia.
Hangzhou, China — production

Pressed steel and stainless at volume, with the deep-draw tooling and coating lines the metal range runs on.
Vietnam — production

The second base, held to the same drawing. It keeps supply moving if one country is disrupted, and answers a China-plus-one sourcing policy without changing the specification.

Our Beginnings

Connections are the core of every successful business

Two manufacturing countries, one Singapore contract desk. We built it that way on purpose.

Vietnam

Manufacturing base

A network of Vietnamese factories with deep-draw, pressed steel, welded stainless and finishing capability. The same base produces our group's defence packaging line, so the tolerances and inspection routines were already in place before the first can was pressed.

China

Manufacturing base

A parallel Chinese production base covering the same processes at different scale points, including blow moulding for the HDPE lines. It gives us a second route to capacity when a line is loaded and a second answer when a buyer's sourcing policy rules out a single country.

Singapore

Global sales office

Contract management, quality sign-off, export documentation and customer relationships run from Singapore. One accountable point of contact between a distributor in Perth or Rotterdam and whichever line is running your order.

Dual Sourcing

Two countries, one specification

Most buyers we talk to are no longer asking only what a can costs. They are asking what happens if one country becomes difficult, and whether their supplier has an answer that is not a six-month re-qualification.

Running Vietnam and China in parallel is our answer. The drawing, the material specification and the inspection routine are held identical across both, so the origin can change without the product changing.

Continuity of supply

If one base is disrupted or fully loaded, the other carries the order. Your programme does not stop while we find capacity.

Tariff and policy flexibility

Duty treatment and country-of-origin rules differ by destination. Two origins means we can often quote you the one that lands better.

Sourcing policies satisfied

Buyers operating a China-plus-one or single-country-risk policy can be served without abandoning the range.

Specification held identical

Same drawing, same material spec, same inspection. Diversification is only useful if the product does not shift with it.

Our Vision

The least uncertain thing about the journey

A world where the container holding what you carry is the least uncertain thing about the journey, whether that journey is an overland crossing, a harvest, a flooded street or a fourteen-day preparedness shelf.

Our Mission

Manufacture liquid containers to a single unwavering specification per line, and supply them to outfitters, distributors, fleet operators and agencies with the documentation, lead-time certainty and consistency that repeat procurement requires.

Why Fortitude21

What you get from a focused manufacturer

We make one product family. That focus is the whole proposition.

Access to established facilities

Production inside existing Vietnamese and Chinese factory networks with metal forming, welding, blow moulding and finishing already running at volume.

Skilled workforce

Teams already producing metal containers to military tolerance. A jerry can is a simpler brief for the same hands.

Flexible production

Raw, mill finish or powder coated, standard or private-label marking, packed for distributor shelf or pallet.

Specification consistency

The same drawing every run. Your product photography and your reviews stay accurate across reorders.

Documentation that clears audit

Material certification and inspection records supplied per shipment for buyers who need a compliance file.

Intellectual property protection

Private-label tooling, artwork and colourways stay yours. We do not resell your programme to your competitor.

About Fortitude21

We build the container, not the story around it

Two production countries, one contract desk

Singapore — sales and contracts

Hangzhou, China — production

Vietnam — production

Connections are the core of every successful business

Manufacturing base

Manufacturing base

Global sales office

Two countries, one specification

Continuity of supply

Tariff and policy flexibility

Sourcing policies satisfied

Specification held identical

The least uncertain thing about the journey

What you get from a focused manufacturer

Access to established facilities

Skilled workforce

Flexible production

Specification consistency

Documentation that clears audit

Intellectual property protection

Let's revolutionise liquid containment together