We are a family-owned international business with five production sites globally, stationed in England, Germany, Romania and Czech Republic. For over 90 years Cohline has both developed and produced smart fluid systems in the transport of media such as but not limited to; water, fuel, and oil, for a range of partners.
Due to our constant development of manufacturing methods, we possess the capabilities to manufacture a variety of media transport hose and pipe systems, with the possibilities of various material compositions. The current complex processes we use are: aluminium brazing, bending, upsetting, burnishing, soldering and welding. Our manufacturing methods, accompanied with our years of experience, give us the option to produce hosing and piping made from metals, plastics, elastomers, or even a combination of materials, in almost any production quantity.
We are a long established partner for customers in various industries, such as manufacturers in automotive, agricultural and construction machinery, along with customers in the supplier industry. All of our customers depend on our exceptional and bespoke media transport solution, and acknowledge the standard of quality that each and every one of our products meet with the assurance of our state of the art laboratory and measurement technology testing systems. Our quality standard is indisputable with our integrated quality system which has attainted the certification of IATF 16949,
ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and TISAX.
Time Line of Cohline's History from the start in 1932 to present day
Corporate Policy of the COHLINE Group
In the year of its foundation in 1932, the production of special automobile products under the company name of Cohnen commenced. Today Cohline Ltd is a personally committed family business which is modern, rich in tradition and innovative. For years Cohline Ltd has maintained a successful quality management system to a high standard. It also includes the areas of environmental protection and health and safety.
Management establishes the Quality and Environmental Policy in which the ideas and objectives of the organisation are appropriately described. The Quality and Environmental Policy offers the framework to measure and review the organisation’s objectives. They derive from the responsibility to meet customer requirements and to improve the effectiveness of the management system.
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Standards
Cohline and quality – one word which every day influences the way we think and deal with ideas, development, purchasing and production of our products and services.
Cohline Ltd compares itself to the best and achieves this only by continual improvement in all areas of the organisation.
Our innovative and creative abilities are expressed in communication with our customers, suppliers and academic institutions.
Quality
Our quality standard is based on the satisfaction and expectations of our customers, on how our organisation values the society, on product effectiveness as well as possible technical and economical conditions.
This means:
- We follow a zero-fault strategy (preventing faults not detecting them).
- We develop products that offer our customers competitive advantages.
- We integrate all employees with responsibility for the quality of our products and services.
- In communication with our customers, we find solutions to take the lead over competitors.
- We plan solid and competent manufacturing procedures.
- We develop the quality competence of our suppliers.
Responsibilty
- Quality starts with each individual.
- Quality, and therefore customer satisfaction, is produced by the overall performance of all employees in our organisation.
Behaviour
- Each individual employee personally contributes to the quality of our products and services by their performance.
- Each employee and each task are conclusive in the quality of the company.
- It stretches like a “red thread” from the gates through to Administration and Production, to Despatch and through the whole of the organisation.
- The function of the company executives to act as an example is of crucial importance.
- In our organisation the customer is not only the buyer, but also every supplier and employee with whom we work together in order to produce good quality performance.
Organisation
- By setting up the QM-System to DIN EN/ISO 9001 and including IATF 16949/2016, the technical and organisational requirements are met and do justice to our quality demands.
- Quality Awareness must be reinforced and accomplished by continual information and motivation, as well as training for employees and further
Future
- Cohline Ltd is a group of performance orientated people who together want to achieve more.
- We see the future as an interesting challenge and have put our energy into shaping it successfully.
- The quality of our products and services is dependent on the trust of our customers. The mutual performance safeguards jobs and the continued existence of the organisation.
- Our motivation and competence to apply this quality policy in our daily work with be decisive for our reputation and good name for products and services.
- High quality price conscious, up-to-date products and services that are manufactured on time and are environmentally conscious, a well as being flexible to external requirements are our way in the future.
- Quality has a long tradition at Cohline Ltd. We want to keep and increase the trust of our customers by our comprehensive quality management in order to stay successful in Cohline markets and acquire new ones.
Environment
By dealing with resources economically, we do our part to meet the requirements of our customers and society to protect the environment. We follow legal and official regulations.
This means:
- We want to continually improve the environmental effects caused by our business.
- We want to avoid or reduce the dangerous effects like waste, sewage and emissions.
- We want to save resources such as water and energy.
- To avoid accidents dangerous to the environment we take the utmost care when handling dangerous substances that cannot be replaced due to technical reasons.
- We look after our plants and procedures, and the organisation and workplaces are kept clean and tidy.
We are proud that our two German locations are supplied with 100% green electricity (Green Electricity Guarantee Certificate). The green electricity we use is generated 100% from renewable energies. This means that no CO2 emissions or radioactive waste are generated during electricity production. This step is not only good for our company, but also for the environment, as we are actively helping to reduce our ecological footprint and contribute to climate protection.
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Included in the advancement of the automotive and other adjacent industries, we understand the stress on global responsibility for our current and future climate, thus we believe is it a necessity to understand and implement the responsible use of resources.
Because of this we have set ourselves the goal of instilling climate neutral production by 2035. Due to the nature of Cohline being a medium sized company with not only regional heritage but an international focal point, we feel jointly responsible for the future of generations to come.