For over a century, Associated Spring, Barnes Industrial, a business segment of Barnes Group Inc. has been one of the world's leading spring manufacturers with facilities strategically located across the globe. Today, more than 90% of our business is precision engineered custom solutions--utilizing our mechanical and gas springs, precision stampings, reed valves, precision forming and assemblies--designed and produced to the requirements of some of the world’s leading manufacturers, in applications ranging from automotive to telecommunications, from consumer home products to medical devices. As part of the Barnes Group of high technology companies, we’ve been building on our basic strengths with new and advanced systems and facilities, highly-specialized capabilities, and a group of leading experts -- engineers, researchers, and manufacturing professionals -- unsurpassed in our field. All backed by continual investment -- in systems and technology, training and human development. The result is a company that has but one single purpose: Being the most technologically advanced, creative, and responsive global supplier of precision components to manufacturers the world over. This means we’re committed to finding new and better solutions to the problems faced by our customers, to responding quickly to customer demands with products that meet their needs and exceed their expectations, and to bringing them a worldwide capability to assure reliable delivery of quality components when and where they need them.