The company Cold Cut Systems (CCS) AB was founded in 1988 by Sea Captain Lars G. Larsson, CCS.
In the 1990s the Luleå Rescue Service in Sweden carried out its own tests with the object of developing safe methods to penetrate roof constructions and also to demolish walls and cladding material in fire situations. In 1995 it was stated that no further progress could be made and therefore a request was forwarded to the Swedish Rescue Services Agency with the object of developing safer methods for making ventilation holes in roofs in connection with fire.
The Swedish Rescue Services Agency realised at an early stage the advantages of using water at high pressure and as a result the market was analysed to find companies that could provide equipment for water-jet cutting. The company that was judged as having the best criteria for participation in the project was Cold Cut Systems AB in Kungsbacka, Sweden.
In the subsequent tests it was shown that the tool provided by Cold Cut Systems could not only cut through all currently used building materials, the high pressure and special nozzle of the tool was able to effectively control/extinguish fire inside a building construction.
The work of development was therefore adapted accordingly and the concept has been further developed in cooperation with the Swedish Rescue Services Agency, the Lund Institute of Technology, and rescue services in Sweden, with the aim of establishing a new method of firefighting.
The method was given the name Cutting Extinguisher Method, and it was patented in 1997 in the most essential markets in Europe, America and Asia. The product name COBRA is now often used in the market.