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Prestressing: Ensuring high spring quality

Prestressing is a quality-improving process often implemented during the manufacture of springs – mainly compression springs – to enhance their mechanical properties and improve their fatigue life (life cycle). The process involves compression by loading a spring past its elastic limit until it reaches a solid position or a predetermined length (the latter is less common) and plastic deformation occurs. This results in a number of enhancements to the spring including: Increased elastic deformation Increased load capability Improved relaxation [...]

By JB Springs|2021-11-09T14:36:09+00:00June 7th, 2021|

Joe’s Award Nomination

Friday 14th May saw the first Apprenticeship Work Based Learning Awards, which was held at Appris’ premises in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Appris is a Group Training Association governed by engineering employers and owned by Appris Charity Ltd. Appris have over 150 member companies and more than 400 apprentices throughout West Yorkshire, and specialise in supplying engineering manufacture apprenticeships. Our very own apprentice Joe Wright was nominated and subsequently shortlisted for the prestigious Engineering Apprentice of the Year award – [...]

By JB Springs|2021-06-08T11:06:33+01:00June 7th, 2021|

How Are Springs Used In Phones?

April is a significant month in the history of telephones. On 14th April 1983, the UK's first cordless telephone became available – it could operate up to a distance of 600 feet from its base. Manufactured by Fidelity and British Telecom, it retailed at £170 – which is equivalent to £401.08 in today’s money! In this blog, we look at the history of phones and answer the question 'How are springs used in phones?'. On 25th April each year, [...]

By JB Springs|2022-05-16T10:15:27+01:00April 20th, 2021|

Easter Has Sprung Upon Us!

Happy Easter! This year it falls on Sunday 4th April. The date changes each year as, in 325 AD, the Council of Nicaea decided to introduce a rule to govern the date Easter was celebrated (independent of the Jewish calendar) due to Christians all celebrating the event on different dates towards the end of the 2nd century. As a result, Easter Sunday was declared to fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon following (or on) either [...]

By JB Springs|2021-11-23T13:52:24+00:00March 26th, 2021|

Sponsoring The Solstice Saunter To Put A ‘Spring’ In Their Step

JB Springs are pleased to again be sponsoring the Solstice Saunter this summer – an annual 5-mile run that takes place to raise money for Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice. Organisers are hopeful that the event – with this year being its sixth time – will be able to go ahead on the planned date of the evening of the longest day of the year 21st June 2021, following the event having to be done virtually in 2020 due to [...]

By JB Springs|2021-03-26T15:49:10+00:00March 24th, 2021|

Shot Peening: Ensuring high spring quality

In this series of blog posts, we will look at how to reduce the net stress on springs through quality manufacturing. In this post, we delve into how shot peening achieves this. This process traces back to its use in the automobile industry in the late 1920s. It is still widely used today in aerospace and automotive high performance component production. What is Shot Peening? Shot peening is the cold working process of firing spherical pellets at the surface [...]

By JB Springs|2021-10-29T10:57:09+01:00March 23rd, 2021|

Pies For Pi Day!

14th March is ‘Pi Day’. This is due to the resemblance the date has to the figure Pi to two decimal places – 3.14 – when written in the format month/day as it is in the USA – along with American Samoa, Guam, Japan, Cayman Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Ghana, Kenya, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Panama, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Togo, the Virgin Islands and Canada! The christening of 14th March as Pi Day was decided by US [...]

By JB Springs|2021-11-23T14:01:11+00:00March 14th, 2021|

World Book Night

Everyone knows about World Book Day, first celebrated on 23rd April 1995 but now held each year on the first Thursday of March. However, did you know there’s also World Book Night? This evening event is held on World Book Day’s original date of 23rd April and – similarly to World Book Day – is an annual celebration of literature and the reading of it. Organised by The Reading Agency, the event unites people from different backgrounds and inspire [...]

By JB Springs|2021-11-04T10:59:47+00:00March 4th, 2021|

An Award for Andy

At JB Springs, we’re all too aware of the fantastic work each our employees carry out on a daily basis in order for us to fulfil orders promptly and efficiently. With that said, long-standing team member of 18 years Andy Driscoll was acknowledged for his positive contributions at JB Springs through being nominated for the coveted Ian Smith Award - named in memory of our late employee who sadly passed away in August of 2019, his 40th year with [...]

By JB Springs|2021-02-15T14:06:46+00:00February 15th, 2021|

JB Springs Celebrates 125 Years

We were delighted to reach the remarkable milestone of 128 years of business last year. Established in 1895 as a family-run company, and remaining so today, our award-winning manufacturing firm invests in the latest equipment to produce quality compression, tension and torsion springs as well as wireform products for a wide variety of clients. The business is thrilled to reach such a historic milestone. Managing director Alex Driver runs the company with his brother Christian since their late father, [...]

By JB Springs|2021-11-04T10:44:33+00:00February 15th, 2021|