Springing to action in Covid-19 fight 22 July 2020

Lee Spring Ltd is playing an active role globally in the manufacturing of critical components and supporting quick lead times essential to the Covid-19 pandemic response, by prioritising critical products needed for medical devices including life-saving devices, testing and diagnostic equipment, and the general supply for hospital equipment.

Lee Spring has been supporting medical customers for decades and many of those customers are at the forefront of the pandemic fight. The company often works on custom designs from inception, through research and development, all the way to final long-run production supply. Lee Spring engineers have worked closely with critical medical products and in many cases have been involved in the earliest designs and R&D stages.

Steve Kempf, Lee Spring CEO, stated: “Our top priority has always been the safety and wellbeing of our employees, customers and communities. We are focused on this now more than ever. While we have always known that our customers, and in turn our springs, play an important role in people’s daily lives, the often critical nature of this role has been starkly revealed through the current crisis, so we are very proud to support them in every way possible right now.”

As critical needs shifted rapidly in the early stages of the pandemic, Lee Spring shifted its manufacturing to meet those demands. Lee Spring states: “Our employees have gone above and beyond to ensure on time delivery for critical components as well as maintaining a safe working environment. It was clear early on that the need for medical devices, especially ventilators, would be a high priority. Medical suppliers from around the globe were in need of our parts to fill their supply chains quickly.”

Testing equipment has become a major priority around the globe and many require specialised and custom springs. These complex devices are heavily engineered components, which includes various spring types. Lee Spring can help to design a spring, suggest materials and finishes, plus provide working prototypes quickly. Lee Spring can work with customers anywhere in the world, allowing it to work a design team in one part of the world and manufacture in another part of the world.