Leggett & Platt Components Europe Limited

Leggett & Platt

Leggett & Platt (listed on the New York Stock Exchange as LEG) is a diversified manufacturer – and member of the S&P 500 stock market index – that conceives, designs, and produces a broad variety of engineered components and products that can be found in most homes, offices, and automobiles. 

Leggett & Platt serves a broad suite of customers that comprise a “Who’s Who” of U.S. manufacturers and retailers. The 129-year-old company (founded 1883) is made of 20 business units, 18,000 employee-partners and 130 facilities located in 18 countries. Leggett & Platt is North America’s leading independent manufacturer of:

a) components for residential furniture and bedding;

b) components for office furniture;

c) drawn steel wire;

d) automotive seat support and lumbar systems;

e) carpet cushion;

f) adjustable beds;

and

g) bedding industry machinery for wire forming, sewing, and quilting.

Leggett & Platt’s Components Europe Limited – locations and responsibilities

Leggett & Platt Components Europe Limited – Barnsley, United Kingdom The division headquarters are located in Barnsley, United Kingdom, and are composed of the Division President, Group Financial Controller, directors, accounts, administration, internal audit, business systems, and creative services.

L&P Springs South Africa – Benoni, Republic of South Africa 

Benoni hosts L&P’s facility in South Africa, which offers production, sales, and distribution.

Leggett & Platt Middle East Incorporated – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sales and distribution are hosted in our Dubai location.

Vertically integrated wire drawing 

One of Leggett & Platt Components Europe Limited’s many specialties is the production of vertically integrated wire. The European division’s purposebuilt production facilities in Croatia and the UK offer the finest-quality wire for the bedding market, developed specifically for our own premium products and now available to our customers. As an integral part of Leggett & Platt, the world’s foremost manufacturer of innersprings and springmaking machinery, we understand the exacting standards and specific requirements of wire components for the UK and European bedding industries.

Our vertically integrated wire mills utilize state-of-the-art manufacturing technology, ensuring the consistency and precise controls that are the hallmarks of a high-quality and efficient wire-drawing operation. Our springmaking machines, which we design and build, represent the highest level of engineering, drawing from Leggett & Platt’s century-old expertise in wiremaking.

Innersprings
Joey®

Exclusive manufacturing ingenuity and revolutionary coil design combine to create this premium pocketed innerspring. Produced exclusively by Leggett & Platt, Joey utilises advanced coil-within-a-coil technology, generating a sleep system that intelligently responds to individual body weights, shapes, and sleep patterns.

Strategically targeted springs contain secondary interior coils which, once engaged, increase in firmness as more weight is applied. This “self-posturizing” system identifies and reacts to every individual body movement. Joey coils offer sublime levels of sleeping comfort with essential body alignment and support characteristics.

SoftTouch®

SoftTouch pocket springs provide a special combination of responsiveness, comfort, and support, making them highly receptive to individual body weights and shapes.

Variable-rate coil geometry is the secret behind the success of SoftTouch. Our advancements in wire technology allow the manufacture of specially designed, progressive, self-conforming innersprings. These springs provide initial softness to the touch, becoming firmer for needed support as weight is applied, generating a luxuriously comfortable yet supportive pocketed innerspring system.

Each spring is encased in its own fabric pocket, actively reducing partner disturbance and “roll-together”. These fabric pockets are parallel-assembled and secured together by a centre-gluing pattern. This glue pattern ensures each SoftTouch pocket spring is free to act independently to its neighbor, maximizing individual spring and overall unit performance.

Hourglass™

Hourglass pocketed springs have a distinctive, variable-rate design which is actually three springs in one. The top and bottom of the coil are wider, producing an initial soft and luxurious feel. The centre of the coil is more tightly formed, giving a firmer and supportive response when engaged. The overall effect is initial softness and comfort followed by good, responsive support as more pressure is applied.

This unique design responds quickly to the shape and movement of individual bodies as they change sleeping position. Individual pockets are boxed, assembled, and  secured together by a Leggett & Platt side-gluing pattern. This allows each pocket spring to act unrestricted and independently from its neighboring springs, optimizing performance.

Each Hourglass spring is encased in its own fabric pocket, helping to reduce partner disturbance. Springs respond effectively to varying body weights, providing support and comfort where it’s needed most.

Softech™

In its continuous endeavor to provide bedding innovations and the most comfortable sleep surface possible, Leggett & Platt introduced Softech, the smart, new alternative in mattress toppers. Through coils that are manufactured from high-tensile wire and stress-relieved for lasting resiliency, these comfort layers consistently outperform expensive foams and other synthetic filling materials, offering cooler sleep, reduced breakdown and settlement, and a luxuriously comfortable feel.

Hi-Low™

This unique pocketed innerspring manufacturing process is only available from Leggett & Platt. It utilizes specially automated technology that strategically positions coils of varying heights in the same row, maximizing product comfort, support, and versatility.

Hi-Low can be configured in numerous ways, offering incredible design flexibility and exclusivity potential. The process can also be combined with many standard or proprietary pocketed innerspring systems, enhancing an established product range or developing new marketing possibilities. This process is available single- or double-sided, in varying heights and unit sizes, and is made possible by the development of protected pocket machine technology by Leggett & Platt.

Anatom®

Imagine an innerspring system with four different firmness levels. Now imagine you can position those firmness levels anywhere within the unit, creating customized comfort for any body type – bespoke products for specific comfort needs!

Now imagine being able to choose the type of innersprings that system is manufactured from, be it fine-quality open coil or luxury pocketed coil. With Leggett & Platt, now you can. Presenting the ultimate in precision sleep, Anatom open coil or pocketed coil comfort systems. Manufacturers are able to create an infinite number of comfort stories with specified anatomic zoning.

Combi-Zone™

Revolutionary zoning that goes beyond the conventional. Create a truly customized solution with multiple coil geometries, diameters, and types. Leggett & Platt, the world leader in bedding component technology and a pioneer in delivering customer-specific solutions, brings you the latest zoning innovation for customized pocketed innersprings.

Combi-Zone is a cutting-edge solution that goes beyond varied wire diameter. It offers changes in coil diameter, geometry, and height – featuring a higher coil count and different zoning configurations throughout. The end result is a difference that sleepers can really feel…greater density combined with ideal firmness, comfort, and support.

VertiCoil®

VertiCoil…A constant spring rate through compression is the secret to this exclusive and uniquely supportive innerspring. Leggett & Platt’s advancements in wire technology allow the creation of a specially designed, larger-head open-offset coil. VertiCoil reacts and conforms to the individual contours of each person and springs back after use to original height for lasting support.

The coil design promotes proper spinal support, resulting in a more peaceful and restful night’s sleep.
It’s 100% working wire…from the increased strength of the spring arm to the more active shape of the coil barrel. The improved balanced deflection maintains coil stability.

Mira-Coil®

Since its introduction, Mira-Coil has been acclaimed the most innovative sleeping surface development in the world. Utilizing advanced wire-forming technology, Mira-Coil has earned its reputation within the bedding industry as a premier innerspring of quality. Mira-Coil is made up of continuous strands of specially formed wire. This “pioneering innerspring system” provides the optimum in surface comfort, weight distribution, body conformity, and essential support. Produced only by Leggett & Platt, Mira- Coil and the equipment required to manufacture it are protected patents. This continuous spring technology is offered exclusively by Leggett & Platt.

Our Proprietary Technologies

Active Support Technology®

Leggett & Platt features Active Support Technology of innersprings, which allows your muscles to relax in a more natural sleep position. The coils adjust instantly to your sleep movements, comforting and supporting your body actively. Innersprings, whether open, pocketed, or continuous, are unique in providing Active Support. Active Support differs greatly from the support offered by other mattress cores, which is passive, slow to respond, and can restrict natural body movement. From comfort to support to durability, the innerspring provides a superior night’s sleep, allowing your body to relax completely, resulting in deep, restful sleep.

Fine Wire Technology™

Leggett & Platt employs Fine Wire Technology, an exclusive technology that harnesses the potential of fine wire. Through Fine Wire Technology, the successful engineering of lowdiameter wire is possible. By taking advantage of fine wire’s unique qualities, the process achieves an unprecedented level of comfort and support.

Innersprings Sleep Cooler

Cool sleep is better sleep, and innersprings provide much more cooling air circulation than other sleep materials. An innerspring mattress is constantly refreshed by the air passing through it and the open structure prevents heat and moisture build-up. In fact, innersprings sleep up to 28% cooler than foam.*

*Research conducted by Kansas State University and the Institute of Environmental Research.