The Active Spring Company Ltd was started by our Managing Directors' father, Harry Crane, in 1980. The fledgling company had little in the way of machinery or equipment and was in fact set up in a small cart shed at the family home. Since then, under the stewardship of James Crane, our current Managing Director who took over in 1999, the company has grown six fold and continues to go from strength to strength. We now occupy two purpose built factories situated on the companys' privately owned four acre site, situated on the edge of Thaxted in Essex, approximately 7 miles East of Stansted Airport.