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The Skipton Santa Fun Run 2025

At the end of November each year, Skipton launches its Christmas celebrations with the popular Skipton Santa Fun Run, a much-loved community event attracting thousands of participants. This year, Philippe, JB Springs’ Global Sales Director and Plant Manager, made his debut in the run alongside 2,500 Santas, including David, JB Springs Sales Manager, his wife and daughter. The annual Santa Fun Run raises vital funds for local charities, with Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice in Skipton a major beneficiary. As [...]

By JB Springs|2025-12-12T16:31:59+00:00December 12th, 2025|

Work experience manufacturing at JB Springs

Last month, we had the pleasure of hosting Joey Driscoll and Finlay Petrucci, who completed a week of work experience with us at JB Springs (pictured above respectively with long-standing employee Tom Cox who runs our WAFIOS Aktiengesellschaft FUL86 and other coilers). They experienced a range of areas around the factory and enjoyed their experience learning about the Springtelligence behind our spring manufacturing. Finlay sent us a very kind card thanking us for offering him the opportunity. He wrote, [...]

By JB Springs|2022-11-01T09:46:33+00:00August 11th, 2022|

This Month in STEM History

JB Springs was established as a spring manufacturer back in 1895. We’re always keen to dive not only into the history of the company but also the history of the engineering industry as a whole. We appreciate how past events have shaped and evolved the industry as we know it today. The month of June in years gone by saw many major STEM events occur, including: 1st June 1907 Frank Whittle, English aviation engineer and inventor of the jet [...]

By JB Springs|2022-07-15T08:22:29+01:00June 22nd, 2022|

Observing Volunteers’ Week

Each year, the first week of June marks Volunteers’ Week – a celebration and acknowledgement of the work carried out by volunteers. It also aims to raise awareness of the advantages of getting involved with volunteering; while also encouraging those not yet involved to look into the opportunities available in their area. Established in 1984 by Volunteering England, events and celebrations occur across the country, with each year having a different theme. This year’s theme is ‘A time to [...]

By JB Springs|2022-07-11T15:12:15+01:00June 3rd, 2022|

Two New Recruits

Last year we welcomed two new members of staff – Des and Lisa Martin – to our despatch and purchasing team respectively. The couple both served in the RAF and bring a wealth of experience in a range of areas, making them valuable people in the JB Springs team. Des joined the RAF aged 16 and served for 22 years as an aircraft enginee. He worked on a variety of aircraft Chinook helicopters, Tornado, Victor and Typhoon throughout his [...]

By JB Springs|2022-10-24T11:14:03+01:00June 2nd, 2022|

Caterpillar Crawler Renovation Completion

Towards the end of last year, our team at JB Springs provided a spring for a vintage 1926 2-ton Caterpillar (CAT) crawler machine; from 1925 to 1928, 8,565 of these were made before being discontinued. Its spec includes a 3-speed gear transmission, 10-inch tracks and a lever that acts as the steering wheel. We recently received some pictures of the fully-renovated crawler – with our spring sitting in pride of place on the starting handle at the front (see [...]

By JB Springs|2022-05-12T08:54:05+01:00April 6th, 2022|

The Skipton Santa Fun Run

The last Sunday of November each year for the past 11 years has seen a slew of Santa-suited locals merrily make their way around the 5km route which takes in the sights of Skipton – where our JB Springs facility is based. This year was no different. Organised by Skipton Rotary Club, the money raised by the event was donated to Sue Ryder Manorlands, as well as local and Rotarian charities. Local charities receive any money raised by the [...]

By JB Springs|2021-12-22T13:20:23+00:00December 20th, 2021|

Case Study – Hart Walker UK

Local manufacturer Hart Walker UK design and produce hands-free walking devices for young people. They approached our JB Springs team regarding a specific torsion spring design for the brake system on their walkers. Subsequently, we worked with the customer and designed springs meeting their requirements. Now, our springs operate in the rear axle brake system. We tested first-off samples prior to making the production volume. Based in Keighley - 8 miles from our Skipton facility, they combine 30 years [...]

By JB Springs|2021-10-29T15:25:13+01:00October 26th, 2021|

Machinery In Action: Latour Multi-Slide

One of our oldest pieces of machinery at JB Springs is the Latour Multi-Slide. The Latour Multi-Slide provides the adaptability needed for our in-house trained engineers to produce simple and complex wireform parts alike. The video below shows the machine producing a hook coned into a tension spring. We undoubtedly love investing in new machines and putting them to good use (like our BM6 in our previous blog post but this old-timer still runs well and is just as [...]

By JB Springs|2022-06-08T10:09:22+01:00October 25th, 2021|

New BM6 Wireform Machine

As part of our continual investment in the latest spring and wireform production technology, we recently installed an additional Wafios BM6 CNC wire-bending machine to produce our wireform parts, using up to 13mm diameter wire. This machine provides us with further capacity in this area. You can see our original BM6 machine in action on our YouTube channel. This video shows the machine working with our Universal UR10e robot and our Keyence high-speed camera to tightly control dimensions. Established [...]

By JB Springs|2021-11-05T09:47:34+00:00October 25th, 2021|

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