Three Employees Celebrating 20 Years at John Binns & Son
Over the course of 2020 three employees will be celebrating two decades with John Binns & Son Springs. The first to reach this milestone was our Sales Director David Whitfield (pictured second from the right) last month who, unfortunately, was forced to celebrate the occasion at home while the lockdown was in full effect. Congratulations David! Let's hope the [...]
Automation In Action
At JB Springs we are constantly improving our manufacturing efficiency and accuracy.This is a perfect example of how technology is helping us to achieve this. In the video above, 12mm pre-galvanised wire-forms, produced on a WAFIOS BM6, are being checked by a Keyence high-speed quality inspection camera, and then picked and packed by our RARUK Automation Robot arm (affectionately known [...]
JB Springs Increases Investment in Inspection Technology
JB Springs recently installed a new LED2D-140 inspection camera from industry leaders MicroStudio.The camera is able to detect and precisely measure springs and wireforms with amazing speed when the parts are placed on the instrument’s table. The mechanism allows springs or wireform parts up to 500mm long to be measured as the camera can track along the length of the [...]
Coronavirus Update
As concerns about the spread and impact of coronavirus increase, we feel it is important to outline how we are addressing this situation. The ramifications of factory closures, employee quarantines and transports disruptions have already been seen by companies dependent on Chinese supply chains and these could become more significant with European supply chains, especially with the lockdown now in [...]
JB Springs Supply Chain Unaffected By Coronavirus
We have been asked by a number of our customers if our supply chain is likely to be affected by the outbreak of the coronavirus originating from China.As a UK spring manufacturer, we source the vast majority of our raw materials from the UK and Europe and do not have any originating from China. As a result, our supply chain [...]
JB Springs brings Springtelligence to Low Ash Primary School
Recently JB Springs visited Low Ash Primary School in Shipley, following a competition at Bradford Science Week. JB Springs took Springtelligence to the Year 3 classes at Low Ash Primary School and taught them the basics of springs and where they are used in our daily lives. The pupils carried out an experiment, which involved looking at how increased extension [...]
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