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The company's history
1863 till today |
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In 1863 Baumhüter was founded by Peter Baumhüter as a rope manufacturer in Batenhorst, a district near Wiedenbrück. Baumhüter's legal office and regional plastic extrusion are still based there.
In the 19th century, hemp was made manually into ropes. These ropes were used in agrigulture and in the beginning mechanisation of the industry.
In the first half of the 20th century, machine-based rope manufacturing replaced manual work at Baumhüter, too. Over years, hemp was replaced by East African sisal.
After the Second World War, the company expanded. A knitwear factory was founded to produce clothings.
The company's shares, the management of P. Baumhüter GmbH and its fully-owned subsidiaries "Baumhueter International GmbH" and "baumhueter extrusion GmbH" are family-owned still today.
In 1954, Baumhüter expanded its business activities in the sisal sector. The company acquired another spinning mill, STEEN & Co. GmbH from Hamburg. Thereby, Baumhüter became the leading supplier for sisal yarns, compression and harvest yarns, just as for laces and ropes in the shipping industry.
At the beginning of the sixties, production shifted from natural ropes to polypropylene ropes. Baumhüter and STEEN coped successfully by modifying this technology. Therefore, both belong to the pioneers of this process engineering in Germany.
At the end of the sixties, Baumhüter developed its new product line PB Strapping and first straps were produced. Around the same time STEEN & Co. started to manufacture first staple fibres.
2006: fusion of P. Baumhüter GmbH and STEEN & Co. GmbH Hamburg.
2007, P. Baumhüter GmbH founded two independent subsidiaries "Baumhueter International GmbH" and "baumhueter extrusion GmbH". |
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