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2. Victorinox - Wikipedia

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   Victorinox. Victorinox (/ vɪkˈtɒriˌnɒks / [7]) is a knife manufacturer and watchmaker based in the town of Ibach, in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. It is known for its Swiss Army knives. Since its acquisition of rival Wenger in 2005, it has become the sole supplier of multi-purpose knives to the Swiss army.

3. Otto Förschner - Wikipedia

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   Otto Förschner (4 November 1902 – 28 May 1946) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and a Nazi concentration camp commander. After serving with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front, Förschner worked as a senior official at the Buchenwald concentration camp (1942–1943) and later served as the commandant of Mittelbau-Dora (1943–1945) and ...

4. Swiss Army knife - Wikipedia

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   Since 2013, the knives of Wenger are integrated in Victorinox. The Swiss Army knife (SAK; German: Schweizer Taschenmesser, Sackmesser, Hegel, etc.) is a pocketknife, generally multi-tooled, now manufactured by Victorinox. [1] The term "Swiss Army knife" was coined by American soldiers after World War II after they had trouble pronouncing the ...

5. Wenger - Wikipedia

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   Wenger SA. Wenger was a Swiss cutlery manufacturer that exists today as a brand of once-rival Victorinox, used for knives, watches and licensed products. [1] Founded in 1893, it was best known as one of two companies to manufacture Swiss Army knives. Based in Delémont, Wenger was acquired in 2005 by Victorinox and partially absorbed. [2]

6. Carl Elsener Jr. - Wikipedia

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   Carl Elsener Jr. is the great-grandson of Karl Elsener (1860–1918) and the son of Carl Elsener Sr. (1922–2013). Karl Elsener had opened a factory in Ibach in 1884 [2] for the production of knives and surgical instruments, [3] from which the Messerfabrik Victorinox developed. In October 2000, [4] Elsener founded together with his father and ...

7. Tramontina - Wikipedia

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   Tramontina is a family-run Brazilian metallurgical company founded in 1911 by italian immigrant Valentin Tramontina. The company manufactures cutlery, cookware, home appliances, and tools for agriculture, gardening, industrial work, automotive maintenance, civil construction, and electrical repair. It's the most traditional cutlery in Brazil ...