A 17-strong engineering firm that moved out of Port Talbot for an industrial estate in Pyle has grown its turnover by 95 per cent in two years, according to Bridgend County Borough Council.
Tollgate Engineering has made the Wales Fast Growth 50 for the fourth year running, and this year took the index’s Sustainable Growth Award, the council said.
The business does the mechanical and electrical side of buildings: heating, ventilation, power and plumbing. Its current project, according to the council, is research with an international modular housing manufacturer on how to make modular homes in volume.
The firm was still based in Port Talbot in 2023. That year it was reported to have won a contract to fit out 54 modular homes at a Dutch factory, destined for a housing development in Cardiff.
From Baglan Energy Park to Village Farm, with a £31,063.98 grant for the fit-out
Tollgate set up in 2019 and spent its early years at Baglan Energy Park. The move to Village Farm Industrial Estate took it a few miles down the M4 and into Bridgend County Borough.
In March 2025 the council gave it a £31,063.98 business development grant, paid for from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, towards fitting out the new premises and buying IT equipment.
The council said the new office safeguarded the 17 existing jobs and would allow more to be created. It did not put a number on the new posts.
Lee Turner, Tollgate’s managing director, said the firm was “extremely proud” to be on the index for a fourth year, alongside the award. “This is a fantastic accomplishment for us, but to be able to maintain this position is something we are especially proud of,” he said.
He put the result down to “the hard work and commitment of our entire team, alongside the support and guidance of our clients and partners”.
Sales growth, not profit: how the Fast Growth 50 ranks its firms
The index ranks Welsh companies by how fast their sales have grown over two years, so a place on it says a firm is getting bigger quickly, not what it earns in profit. This year’s 50 took their combined turnover from £327m in 2023 to £759m in 2025, with a Cardiff aerospace firm at the top on growth of nearly 1,000 per cent.
Four consecutive appearances is what earned Tollgate the Sustainable Growth Award, the council said, a prize for firms that keep growing rather than spike once.
Cllr Colin Davies, Bridgend’s cabinet member for regeneration and housing, called the result “a brilliant example of talent and ambition from a business based in Bridgend County Borough”.
He went on: “During a time when there are lots of challenges facing UK businesses today, Tollgate can show what is possible when they are given the chance to expand their business and thrive as a result.”
The council said other Bridgend County Borough firms are on this year’s list, without naming them, and the index publishes the full 50 on its website.
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