Taylor Devices would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy Holiday season! May you and your family have good health and happiness into the new year!
70 YEARS OF MOTION CONTROL
For seven decades, Taylor Devices, Inc. has stood at the forefront of motion control, driven by a legacy of innovation sparked by founder Paul Taylor’s groundbreaking liquid spring patents. This pioneering spirit propelled the development of sophisticated viscous dampers, revolutionizing shock and vibration control. Today, Taylor Devices’ product portfolio extends far beyond dampers, encompassing a wide array of advanced energy dissipation solutions safeguarding critical infrastructure and systems worldwide. From mitigating seismic impacts in buildings and bridges to protecting sensitive aerospace and defense equipment, Taylor Devices continues to deliver unmatched performance and reliability. Our 70th year proved to be another exceptional period for the Company, marked by record-high sales and continued operational excellence.
The year was also one of significant change and transition. In June, Alan Klembczyk began his semi-retirement after an impressive 37 years of service, the last seven as President and Board Member. Alan ensured a seamless leadership transition and remained involved a few days a week before fully retiring in December.
While it is challenging to say farewell to a colleague with Alan’s loyalty and depth of knowledge, we are energized by the opportunities ahead. We have pushed our team to into new areas the company has never been before, expanding our capabilities and significantly increasing our Research & Development. We are also in the process of building our own dedicated in-house development lab to help with these efforts as we grow.
Stay tuned for future updates!
2025 was another busy year for the Structural team, which included traveling to Taiwan, Peru, and New Zealand. The retrofit of the Ministry of Economy building in Peru is progressing well, while in New Zealand, the 80 The Terrace and 13 Manners St. retrofit projects are nearing their completion.
During our visit to Taiwan in November, Nathan Canney presented at a “Seminar on Applications of Velocity -Dependent dampers” held at the Taiwan National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering. Taiwan continues to be a strong market with TSMC building new fab plants regularly to meet the growing demand for semiconductor chips. Taylor Dampers are used in those plants to provide production resiliency for service level earthquakes.
In the US, many retrofit projects are nearing completion. The DGS building in Sacramento, a building that had the lowest seismic rating of the state’s buildings, has new life and is nearing completion. The Puente Charter school in Los Angeles is another completed project and features dampers on exterior frames for a clean looking and simple retrofit.
The Team attended the 19WCSI conference held at UC Berkeley in September. During the conference, Taylor Devices hosted a select group of attendees on a site visit to the nearby IPON retrofit project.
In 2025, Taylor Devices’ Aerospace and Defense Team expanded the applications for our custom machined springs. We worked with a US Tier 1 defense customer to leverage our technology to develop an optimized machined torsion spring for a critical application – actuation of tail fins on a long range missile. A machined spring was chosen for this application based on a number of clear benefits:
If you have a critical application which requires critical and repeatable loading, reach out to the engineers at Taylor Devices to discuss the potential for machined springs to meet your needs.
Taylor Devices kicked off a “New” Industrial Integrated Product Team (IPT) for FY 26. This cross functional team has worked on a regular cadence to:
This product line has deep roots in Taylor history, and many designs have been leveraged for Aerospace/Defense and Structural applications.
Taylor Devices continues to build upon our strong foundation of investment in people, business processes and continuous improvement. Our Strategic Workforce Planning process is focused on building depth within the organization to support our growing business. We have trained over forty of our leaders in the organization, which has allowed us to set a common bar for behaviors and enables holding each other accountable – speaking the same “leadership language”. This training is supporting our Management culture which is built on developing people.
Our “signature” business processes, which consist of long term and short term business goals, include all key functions and ensure that the team is aligned at all levels. Daily work cell meetings empower the assembly, test, machining and paint teams to raise issues that are needing cross functional support and resolution.
Other areas of continuous improvement across the company include various manufacturing and productivity improvement projects that are underway and focusing on delivering on time to our Customers, which has steadily improved over the past several years.
Once again, all of us at Taylor Devices would like to wish you and yours a Happy Holiday season and a successful New Year!