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Clipper lighters; on the left, the flint system which has been removed from the orange one

Clipper is the brand name of a type of refillable butane lighter, designed by Enric Sardà and owned by Flamagas S.A.[1] since 1959.

The lighters are mostly produced in Barcelona (Spain), while others are manufactured in Chennai (India) and Shanghai (China).[2] Clipper has a wide range of lighters, gas refills and other accessories. The first Clipper lighter was made in 1972, and now the worldwide level of production is around 450 million units a year. [citation needed]

The Clipper brand is a division of Flamagas S.A.,[3] which also distributes stationery and electronics for such brands as Casio and Daewoo.[4] Flamagas S.A. is headed by Puig, and both companies are subsidiaries of the Exea Corporation.[5][6]

Associations

Some people associate the use of the Clipper lighter with roll-your-own cigarettes. This is due to its removable flint system which is often used by smokers to pack tobacco in roll-your-own cigarettes. It is also often used in the smoking of marijuana because the flint system doubling up as a tamper or "poke" and because its shape allows the user to use the lighter without getting burned.

In popular culture

  • British garage act The Streets used the Clipper lighter as his logo.[7] The lighter (bearing the name of the artist) appears on all album covers bar the first album which in fact featured a Swan lighter. Their merchandise includes branded Clipper lighters.
  • The Artist Damien Hirst also used the images of the Clipper lighter in a series of Artworks together with Silk Cut tobacco boxes.
  • The authors Anna Hyndman & Graeme Milne wrote and published the novel "Figure of Eight" in 2010, with an original script showing a Clipper lighter as the main character and telling his life in the first person.
  • Musician Ed Sheeran refers to the Clipper Lighter in his song "Drunk (song)" with the lyrics "There may be other people like us/who see the flicker of the clipper when they light up"

External links

References

  1. ^ http://www.flamagas.com/
  2. ^ http://www.clipper.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=47&limit=27
  3. ^ http://www.flamagas.com/eng/encendedores.htm
  4. ^ http://www.flamagas.com/eng/areas_negocio.htm
  5. ^ http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=23183592
  6. ^ http://www.flamagas.com/eng/corp_exea.htm
  7. ^ http://the-streets.co.uk/


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