HAIX^® Philosophy

When I stopped dreaming the dream and started making it come true back at the beginning of the 1990s, I quite definitely created something, the like of which had so far not existed.

The range of firefighter boots that was generally available at the beginning of the 1990s was by no means adequate for my comrades.

A lessen I learned myself as a member of the voluntary fire brigade in Mainburg. As a trained master shoemaker, I felt honour bound to adopt a wholly new approach.
I developed the very first HAIX^® firefighting boot on numerous evenings and weekends off in the workshop of HAIX^®, our family-owned company. Innovations require just as much courage as a firefighter on a mission.

It is with a certain degree of pride that I can claim that our first boot was developed by a firefighter for firefighters. Nowadays fire brigades around the world have discovered the advantages offered by HAIX^® firefighting boots.

Features such as:

• the highest possible level of safety,
• functionality,
• comfort and design

have meanwhile become indispensable. Innovation means not sitting on your laurels but always trying to extend the boundaries of feasibility.

We guarantee this with our name and by always maintaining close contact with our target groups. At our company, the highest standards of quality are coupled with the knowledge that safety shoes have to meet an enormously demanding challenge these days.

Dem Anspruch, dass diejenigen, die anderen Menschen helfen, den bestmöglichen Schutz für die eigene Gesundheit verdienen.

The challenge of ensuring that those who help others are provided with the best possible protection for their own health.

Our response to this challenge has enabled us to establish ourselves among the leaders in numerous European markets in the sector of functional shoes. The growth rates that HAIX^® is witnessing outside Europe, as well, are enormous.

We tirelessly strive to identify safety shoe innovations in order to ensure our continued ability to meet our customers' demands into the future.

Quality, hand craftsmanship and a distinctive design are the properties that will continue to set HAIX^® apart. At HAIX^®, we demand the same of ourselves as we do of our shoes. And guarantee that we will continue to do so in the future. Ewald Haimerl (Managing Director)