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Flexibox Ltd. was a mechanical seal manufacturer with its company headquarters based in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Frederick Benjamin Porges suggested to the Managing Director of Manchester Oil Refinery (MOR) the formation of a separate company for the fabrication and sale of mechanical seals which he further developed and successfully used in the USSR, in Trieste and in Manchester during his employment at the MOR.

He agreed and the company was founded with Porges as Managing Director under the name of Flexibox Ltd, a shares investment of £600, a disused air-raid shelter, one second-hand lathe and one workman. The company developed and by 1999 had seventeen subsidiaries all over the world, manufacturing not only seals but shaft couplings and related units, used in all sorts of industries.