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Spinks was founded in 2009 as the innovation arm of its sister company, luxury mattress manufacturer Harrison Spinks. Since that time, Spinks has become a leading producer of pocket coils and wire to the furniture and bedding industry. The company continually evolves its products, helping clients customize solutions across a range of options, including fabric. We sat down with COO Richard Essery and CCO Darren Marcangelo to hear how Spinks continues to lead the innovations it pioneered.
“ We specialize in microcoils- advanced, miniature pocket springs- which we invented. These are now a main product category in the mattress industry,” Darren explains.“ We developed a comfort layer with microcoil heights ranging between two and four centimeters, compared to traditional pocket coils, which are much taller and used as support coils. As well as the largest range of microcoils in the industry, we offer a selection of full height pocket coils with traditional gluing, as well as a glue-free version.”
Continuing its well-established tradition of innovation, Spinks has developed new product lines. Darren shares some of the details:“ ECore is our glued coil that has been successfully launched in the UK. While most manufacturers offer something similar, Spinks’ version is sustainable. We provide a polypropylene fabric with polypropylene adhesive. This avoids contamination of the nonwoven material when it comes to recycling the coil at the end of its life. QuadCore and Quadrolution offer glueless pocket coil constructions and are very well received by our customers. ECore Air is in development and due to launch shortly. IndeCore, meanwhile, is progressing
Richard Essery, COO
well, with promising early results as it reduces motion transfer.”
Having recently achieved the remarkable milestone of obtaining 100 patents for the company’ s inventions, Richard elaborates on some of the latest advances:“ As the inventors of the microcoil – the comfort layer in a mattress – we have further developed our unique offering with a new two-stage spring sheet named Microlution. This has been released internationally with some customers already launching mattresses with strong feedback from their customers. This patented innovation features
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