Opinel knife
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thumb|No. 10 Opinel knife with carbon steel blade, Virobloc twistlock, and beechwood handle thumb|Functions of the Opinel Knife: unfolding and locking the blade
Key facts
- Company.name
- Opinel
- Company.logo
- Opinel company logo.png
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.location
- Chambéry, Savoie, France
- Company.key_people
- Joseph Opinel(Founder)François Opinel(President)Denis Opinel (CEO)
- Company.industry
- Manufacturing
- Company.products
- Knives
- Company.revenue
- €29 million (2021)
- Company.num_employees
- 160
- Company.homepage
- www.opinel.com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Company
- Subclass of
- pocket knife
- Headquarters
- Chambéry
- Industry
- industrial manufacturing
- Legal form
- joint-stock company
- Material used
- steel
- Official website
- www.opinel.com
- Image
- Opinel 12 7857.jpg
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- Commons category
- Opinel
- Commons gallery
- Opinel
- inception
- 1890-00-00
- product or material produced
- knife
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Description
- Materials
- Construction
- Design and operation
- Logo
- Sizes and variations
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|No. 10 Opinel knife with carbon steel blade, Virobloc twistlock, and beechwood handle thumb|Functions of the Opinel Knife: unfolding and locking the blade
Opinel is a French manufacturer of pocket or pen knives. The company has made its line of eponymous wooden-handled knives since 1890 from its headquarters in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie. The company sells approximately 15 million knives annually. Opinel knives are made of both high carbon and stainless steel, the latter being Sandvik steel from Sweden.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Opinel knife” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.