Spring mechanism plays an important role at Tate Modern

The Tate Modern art museum has re-opened supported by a new product from the Beckenham office of European Springs & Pressings. 

With an extremely limited time frame, as well as high quality demands, European Springs & Pressings designed, developed, produced and delivered retaining clips for holding face plates on to the corbels as a part of a safety solution for an anti-climb zone on the Tate Modern.

Tate Modern is the UK’s national museum of modern art and with its five million visitors every year is the world’s most visited modern art gallery. The museum underwent a huge expansion project launching a new ten-storey building in June. James & Taylor, specialists in façade engineering, approached European Springs & Pressings, part of the Lesjöfors Group, to design a spring mechanism that would form part of the security supporting an anti-climb zone. Not only was the pressure of delivering to one of London’s most famous buildings but also the time frame was extremely limited.

“This really was a race against the clock as the scaffolding on the Tate Modern was being removed and James and Taylor’s anti-climb installation had to be implemented within days” says Stuart McSheehy, MD at European Springs & Pressings.

James & Taylor were very impressed by European Springs & Pressings: “Stuart and his team could not have been more dedicated to delivering our brief. We appreciated it was a really tight turnaround but they were fearless and achieved the near impossible – securing high numbers of an exceptional quality of product and in a matter of days too” says John Champion, Design director at James & Taylor.

The new Tate Modern opened on 17 June 2016.