The goal of fire departments is to rescue, extinguish, recover and protect. Of course, this is also true when it comes to forest or vegetation fires. In particular, people and animals must be protected, as well as structures such as buildings and vegetation that is in danger of burning to the ground.

Forest fire expert Florian Jerge (@fire Internationaler Katastrophenschutz e.V.) gives tips. 

It has been a long road from the hand-woven hemp hose of 1872 to the fire hose used for firefighting today.

In the case of Gollmer & Hummel, proximity to practice and the users - the firefighters - plays a major role. You can only develop the perfect hose if you know exactly what the needs and requirements are ...

In agriculture, water supply is essential for stable harvest formation. Supply hoses have to do a lot as a "lifeline" for different irrigation systems ...

With slurry hosing, the slurry is delivered to the field via a hose: The advantages result from the fact that the tractor with the spreading unit travels across the field in loops, protecting the soil. The advantages result from the fact that the tractor with the spreading unit travels across the field in loops, protecting the soil, and delivers the liquid manure evenly to the ground.

Gollmer & Hummel is a family business that has always changed and will continue to change in order to continue its worldwide successes. If in 1872 Friedrich Gollmer painstakingly wove 1,500 meters of hemp hose by hand, 150 years later 1 million meters of hose for a wide variety of sectors - from agriculture to firefighting and industry - are in stock. Christoph Schönthaler takes a look at the company archives for us ...