Wire Form & Compression Spring Manufacturer Celebrates Tenth Anniversary

Katy Spring & Mfg. Remains an Industry Leader Houston, Texas (Marketwire) May 5, 2009 -- Spring manufacturer Katy Spring & Mfg., Inc. will celebrate its 10th anniversary next month. Founded by original partners, James West, Scott Pitney, and Mark West, the spring and wire form manufacturer has upgraded its facility four times since 1999 to keep up with the growth and demand for compression spring, torsion, extension and flat spring manufacturing. Katy Spring & Manufacturing recently moved into its latest plant, located in Katy, TX. The state-of-the art complex includes a special building design that allows for more stream-lined production and improved efficiencies. An experienced staff serves a variety of clients with advanced CNC coiling equipment, high speed automatic coilers for economical long runs, manual spring winders for short-run, quick turn production and prototypes, automatic and manual presses, ovens for stress relieving and heat treating, load testing equipment and a variety of specialty equipment including jigs and tools for all types of metal forming. One of the larger wire size spring and wire form manufacturers in the industry, Katy Spring & Mfg. utilizes several materials including high carbon spring steel, brass and spring brass, beryllium-copper, phosphorous bronze, all grades of stainless steel, high-nickel specialty alloys including Inconel ™, Elgiloy ™, Hastalloy ™, and other age-hardened wire to meet the needs of customers’ unique designs. The company has a user friendly website: www.katyspring.com, which offers customers an option to browse for springs, via their online catalog; http://katyspring.com/catalog.htm. “The move into our new headquarters is complete,” said Katy Spring & Mfg. co-owner, Scott Pitney. “We have the capability to run at full capacity with several new coiling machines on line.” With a commitment to assist each client with custom formed metal component products compression, extension and torsion spring requirements, Katy Spring & Mfg. recently welcomed new clients Weatherford, Fastenal, 3M., NASA, and Waistquip. Many of the companies Katy Spring serves have strict quality standards and demand the highest level of certification and performance from their suppliers. Katy Spring has just successfully completed its 5th annual ISO audit and has been recertified ISO 9001:2008.