LIONSTEEL

This is our third "Overall Knife of the Year" award, after the one in 2014 for TiDust and in 2015 for T.R.E. Titanio. A hat trick, topped off by an even more prestigious achievement: the "Manufacturing Quality Award", which crowned LionSteel as the best company in 2014, knocking the Yankees off the top spot, which they had held since time immemorial. To continue the football metaphor, it is like winning a World Cup final in Rio de Janeiro against the home side with team of amateurs. Except that there is almost nothing amateurish about the industrial performance of LionSteel; just one element has remained the same over its almost sixty-year history, since Gino Pauletta started his existential relationship with knives. It is an increasingly rare and valuable specimen: passion... He started out as a young boy, on 1 January 1957, at FARM, Fabbrica Articoli Reclame Maniago. To guarantee himself some economic freedom, and satisfy his insatiable passion, he did not think twice about clocking..

Also known as: Lionsteel Sas

Primary location: Maniago (pn) Italy