SOWA-Spezialmaschinen

The family Sommer has a long tanner tradition. Already grandfather Willy Sommer worked in the leather factory Hirschberg as a carpenter and produced there tanning and retanning drums. His son Achim learnt from the ground up  the profession of the tanner up to the tanner's master. Paralell in addition he also learnt the occupation of the mechanical engineering master and repaired everybody machines by himself. Long years he worked in own tannery, trade with machines and he learnt his son Holger as a logical consequence also the profession of the tanner. 1993 qualify to himself in Reutlingen to the tanner's master. Then Achim and Holger Sommer founded together the company SOWA-Special machines with the aim to alter modified tanning machines for the individual application in the customer. In this time we have many clients all over the world.