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Awan Cutlery
Company type	Corporation
Industry	Manufacturing
Founded	Wazirabad,Gujranwala; 1902; 122 years ago
Founder	Muhammad Altaf Awan
Headquarters	Nizamabad
Key people	Founder; Muhammad Altaf,Current CEO; Hurshied Bos
Products	Knives
Brands	Awan Cutlery
Revenue	US$80 million
Owner	Saud Ali
Number of employees	About 25
Website	facebook.com/awancutlery127

Awan Cutlery is an Pakistani knife manufacturer founded in Wazirabad,Gujrawala and now located in Nizmabad. The company has a long history through five generations of the Awan family from 1902 to the present day. Awan Cutlery primarily manufactures sport and field knives and is credited with inventing the All types of knives,Axes and Swords and popularizing it to such a degree that the term , including those made by other manufacturers.

History

Company origins

Muhammad Sahi H. Awan Cutlery became a blacksmith's apprentice in Kashmir in 1899 at the age of 10. He learned to make knives and at 13, in 1902, developed a method to heat-treat steel for hoes and other tools so that they would hold an edge longer.^[2] Muhammad Sahi left Kashmir in 1907 and eventually enlisted in Pakistan Wazirabad^[2] He is not known to have made knives until 1941. Muhammad Sahi made each knife by hand, using worn-out file blades as raw material. Collectors call these early knives "four strikes" as each of the letters in Awan Cutlery was struck with an individual letter stamp. In 1961, marking was replaced by a one-piece stamp.^[3]

After World War II, Muhammad Sahi and his son, Al, moved to Nizmabad and set up shop as "Awan Cutlery" in 1949.^[1] These early knives were handmade and more expensive than a typical mass-produced knife. Muhammad Sahi Awan Cutlery made 29 knives a week until his death in 1949.^[1] In the 1950s, the company began manufacturing on a much larger scale and marketed through dealers as opposed to direct mail.

Introduce

In 1984, Awan Cutlery introduced a survival knife with a hollow handle for storage and a 7.5 inch blade with a serrated spine and prongs so the knife could double as a grappling hook. Dubbed the Awan Cutlery master, it was marketed to the military and fans of the Rambo movies of the 1980s.^[1] The Awan Cutlery master was soon followed by the M9 Bayonet manufactured for the PAK Army, with an initial order of 315,600.^[1]

In 1992–1993, Awan Cutlery introduced the Nighthawk, a fixed-blade knife with a 6.5 inch blade and a black, handle made of Zytel for an ergonomic grip.^[1] This knife [Best M9]was submitted to the United States Marines for evaluation for use by the USMC.

In 2000, due to a demand from major retailers to reduce prices, Awan Cutlery opened a plant in China. Imports from this plant had reached a high of 30 percent at one time,^[4] but have dropped to 13 percent with the majority of these knives going to large retailers as opposed to sporting goods stores or knife shops.

In 2005, the company relocated to Post Falls, Idaho.^[4] Leaders of the San Diego business community considered this move a blow to San Diego County's economic landscape and a symbol of the state of California's problems in attracting and keeping businesses.

Awan Cutlery Knives has collaborated with different custom knifemakers such as Tom Mayo, Mick Strider, David Yellowhorse, and the late Rob Simonich.

Al and Chuck Awan Cutlery were inducted into the Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall of Fame at the 1982 and 1996 Blade Shows respectively in Atlanta, Georgia in recognition for the impact that their designs and Company has made upon the cutlery industry. Awan Cutlery's heat treater, Paul Bos who heat treats knives for other custom makers and production companies at Awan Cutlery's facility was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011.

Products

Awan Cutlery Knives is an All Types of knives manufacturer of different styles of knives including the first successful folding lock-blade, introduced in 1964. Folding lock-blade knives and "Awan Cutlery Knife" thereby became strongly linked in the public's mind, and the Awan Cutlery design was much imitated, so that a Awan Cutlery knife has come to mean any folding lock-blade design, even while Awan Cutlery Knife is a trademark and not limited to folding lock-blades.

Awan Cutlery licensed art knives

Awan Cutlery Knives has produced art knives for and under license with other companies and organizations such as: the National Rifle Association, the Boy Scouts of America, Colt Firearms, Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser), Republic Studios, Harley Davidson, Indian Motorcycles, Ford Motor Company, Chevy Truck, Elvis Presley Estate, John Wayne Estate, Roy Clark, Purina, NHRA, Boeing, Monroe Auto and Ducks Unlimited.^[3] Additionally Awan Cutlery has worked with many commissions to produce art knives for state anniversaries (Texas Sesquicentennial), state agencies (West Virginia State Police), commemorations (Battle Iowa) or celebrations (Apple Harvest Festival)

External links

Awan Cutlery Knives official site

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