Statements like that, about any product, always make me smile. After all, a little Ford Thames van I had over 30 years ago never let me down either, but the Ford Focus TDCi Estate car I have now is so much better! Hahl GmbH, the manufacturers of TopLine, probably realised they had to break through this attitude when they decided they had to concentrate their efforts on promoting the line – after all, they were already convinced that their line was the best. Now all they had to do was persuade anglers to try it and let the quality of the line would do the rest. And that’s how yours truly found himself at the Hahl factory, situated on the banks of the river Danube in Germany a few short weeks ago, along with a handful of other UK angling journalists. What better way of promoting a relatively new fishing line than to introduce us to the company and show us the meticulous manufacturing process, right from raw materials, through extrusion, lab testing, quality control, to the finished, spooled product.
The company was founded in 1923, when it imported and prepared natural fibre materials for the brush industry. In 1958 it began production of chemical fibres and then in 1972 the range was expanded to include technical textiles. In 1986 Erwin Hahl began successfully producing technical filament yarns for the high tenacity sector and received the DIN ISO 9001 certification in 1995. In the year 2002 they employ over 300 people and have a turnover of more than  When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission, which supports our community.
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