Masahiro (company)
| Masahiro | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | 1932 (1948) |
| Seat | Seki |
| management | Noboru Hattori (President), Kōji Hattori (General Director) |
| Branch | Knife manufacture |
| Website | www.masahiro-hamono.com |
KK Masahiro ( Japanese 株式会社 マ サ ヒ ロ , Kabushiki kaisha Masahiro ) is a Japanese manufacturer of kitchen knives ( Hōchō ).
The company equal to its diameter series name, which consists of a known vanadium - molybdenum - alloy are manufactured. This results in a very strong and hard knife. The extreme resilience and the lack of temper embrittlement is due to the molybdenum. However, the company also produces a variety of other high-quality Japanese knives, such as: B. made of carbon or ceramic .
history
The company was founded in April 1932. In October 1948, registration as Masahiro Tankō KK ( 正 広 鍛工 株式会社 , "Masahiro metalworking") followed. 1958 began, together with the engineer Nishikiori / Nishigori ( 錦 織 ) and the Daidō Tokushukō KK ( 大同 特殊 鋼 株式会社 , "Daidō special steel"), the development of stainless kitchen knives. In 1962, the MSC high-carbon kitchen knife series was introduced . In 1972 the associated company Masahiro Hamono KK ( 正 広 刃 物 株式会社 , "Masahiro-Messerwaren") was founded. In 1952 the company was renamed to its current name.
References and comments
- ↑ presumed reading for 服 部 昇 , possibly also Shun / Shō / etc. Hattori
- ↑ presumed reading for 服 部 浩 ev , possibly also Hiroshi / etc. Hattori
- ↑ hence the word molybdenum vanadium stainless steel on the originals.
- ↑ Reading unclear
- ↑ 会 社 案 内 . In: 刃 物 の 町 、 岐阜 県 関 市 の 包 丁 専 門 メ ー カ ー 【株式会社 マ サ ヒ ロ】 . Masahiro, accessed October 26, 2010 (Japanese).