50 years of experience...

HOBAS® has been “making things happen”, as our company motto says, for more than 50 years now. It all started at the dyeing factory in Basel, Switzerland, when a group of in-house specialists needed a new material and developed the centrifugal casting process to replace the traditional wooden cylinders of their machinery with perfectly concentric light-weight cylinders of glass fiber reinforced polyester resin over which the dyed textiles would pass.

The filament winding process, which was already applied at that time, had been found unsuitable since it did not produce an outer surface smooth enough to ensure an even dye. The Swiss, esteemed for their practical innovations, soon recognized the advantages the centrifugal casting method provided for the production of pipes and the dyeing company in Basel was flexible enough to further develop, patent and utilize this new technology for the production of CC-GRP Pipes.