Saving Saviors: How New Hampshire’s Globe Manufacturing Has Kept the World’s Firefighters Safe

PITTSFIELD, N.H. - Jan. 21, 2015 - PRLog -- Pittsfield, New Hampshire (January 20, 2014) – This week, Globe Manufacturing (http://www.globefiresuits.com/) represents New Hampshire manufacturing and firefighters from around the world in the editorial series This Built America (http://www.thisbuiltamerica.com/).

Now in its fourth generation of family ownership, Globe has always been one of the great innovators in safety gear for firefighters. In recent years, the company has partnered with agencies like FEMA and the US Army to elevate the technology keeping our first responders safe.

"What we make, it doesn't go in a machine and come out the other side," says Gef Freese, great-grandson and senior vice president for operations at Globe. "It's people who are doing it and they are really proud of what they do—they want the firefighters to come home alive.”

Globe isn’t just making an impact globally, their presence makes a huge difference locally as well. The company employs about 300 people in the Pittsfield area—around 10% of the town’s population.

To see how Globe Manufacturing continues to innovate firefighter safety, visit http:///www.thisbuiltamerica.com/new-hampshire (../www.thisbuiltamerica.com/new-hampshire). Or, follow This Built America on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/thisbuiltamerica), Twitter (https://twitter.com/builtamerica), Instagram (http://instagram.com/thisbuiltamerica) and Google+ (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Thisbuiltamericaproject/posts).

Globe Manufacturing joins a national movement in This Built America that is devoted to supporting American companies and American-made products. AOL is proud to support the effort along with sponsor Ford Trucks. Through the year, the editorial and video teams will explore 50 states in 50 weeks to bring 50 stories of the people who are bringing back manufacturing to America. The platform is produced in coordination with Man Made Content.

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