John Binns has recently completed a 3D printing project for an aerospace company that has resulted in a new and unique spring design. The project involved a small torsion spring that was to fit in a restricted slot. The original spring would not work within the space available. John Binns was asked to re-design the spring so an urgent retrofit could be undertaken. Thanks to our 3D production facility we were able to print a working model and design a [...]
On Wednesday 19th November John Binns exhibited at the Manufex exhibition in Newcastle. The show was a great success with many people visiting us to see what we had to offer. John Binns even became somewhat of a ‘must see’ at the exhibition as our giant spring amazed punters young and old. John Binns would like to thank everyone who came to see us and made it a great event.
Congratulations to Dave Heigold who has passed 30 years here at John Binns. We are very proud and grateful to have such experienced employees such as Dave and Ian within our company. Dave has undertaken many roles and now works in our powder coating shop and has developed a great level of skill in providing fantastic quality on alloy wheel refurbishments as well as other powder coated finishes.
Congratulations to Ian Smith who has recently passed 35 years working here at John Binns. Ian runs JB’s grinding department. He has witnessed first hand the developments in the machinery used at John Binns. His expertise and experience combined with the very latest technologies mean that John Binns can offer an unrivalled level of quality in the grinding of springs.
John Binns regularly gets asked to look at resolving problems for customers. Two recent, one-off projects illustrate this. The first was a request from a theatre set designer for a pair of springs to raise a bed for a show that was days away from premiering on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. With the team at John Binns having been set the brief, a design and calculations were made and a final solution arrived at within the hour. Once this design [...]
In addition to investing in the very latest production machinery, John Binns is investing in building the skilled workforce required in the modern manufacturing environment. Over the last two months three new apprentices have been taken on. It is hoped that they will develop into expert springmakers and become a valuable part of the John Binns’ team for the years ahead. The apprentices, Tom Cox, Ryan Hoggarth and Tom Wright, are aged between 16 and 18 are all from the [...]
In December, John Binns successfully renewed its ISO certification. Once again the audit did not find any non-conformancies.
Ever the romantic, John Binns managing director, Alex Driver has been searching high and low for that ideal Valentine’s gift for his wife. “We all know that cards are a bit cheesy and flowers just a cliché,” explained Alex, “but this heart design, made on one of our CNC wireforming machines and available in a choice of fetching colours, courtesy of our powdercoating plant, ticks all the boxes for that perfect present.” They are available at £12, which includes VAT [...]
John Binns has recently welcomed members from two of the local schools’ sixforms. The Design & Technology A’level students from Giggleswick School enjoyed a tour of the factory and were able to view some of the latest spring and wireforming technologies in operation. They have been offered the opportunity to design products, which will be prototyped at John Binns, as part of their course. Two Engineering students from Skipton Girls’ High School (an engineering specialist school) have also visited the [...]
As another year ends, we at John Binns would like to express our thanks to all our customers, both new and old, for their custom throughout 2012 and to wish all a merry Christmas and every success in the new year. Despite what has proved to be another challenging year for the UK economy and the manufacturing sector, John Binns has undertaken some significant investments in new machinery and now has 11 CNC machines covering compression, tension and torsion springs. [...]
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