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From the Syracuse (NY) Post-Standard:
http://www.syracuse.com/poststandard/stories/index.ssf?/base/business-10/1190451805232730.xml&coll=1
Cutlery's designs to live on
Saturday, September 22, 2007
By Charley Hannagan Staff writer
Two American knife companies bought tooling, equipment and drawings at this week's auction of Camillus Cutlery and plan to begin making knives based on the defunct factory's patterns.
Knives made from Camillus' patterns will appear either this year or early next year in the catalogs of the Ontario Knife Co., in Franklinville, Cattaraugus County, and Bear & Son Cutlery Inc., of Jacksonville, Ala., their executives said Friday.
They will not, however, have the Camillus name. Acme United Corp. of Fairfield, Conn., paid $185,000 at a auction Tuesday for the Camillus' name, Web site, trademarks, brand names and patents.
Bear & Son owner Ken Griffey Jr. (not the famous ballplayer) said the Camillus knife patterns fill a niche for people who want to own an "old-timey" knife.
Bear and Ontario Knife bought the majority of the former knife plant's tooling, said Nick Trbovich Jr., president and chief executive of Ontario and chairman chief executive of its sister company Queen Cutlery in Titusville, Pa. Both companies are owned by Servotronics Inc., of Elma.
Camillus Cutlery closed in February and the contents of the factory were sold at auction this week to repay its debt.
http://www.syracuse.com/poststandard/stories/index.ssf?/base/business-10/1190451805232730.xml&coll=1
Cutlery's designs to live on
Saturday, September 22, 2007
By Charley Hannagan Staff writer
Two American knife companies bought tooling, equipment and drawings at this week's auction of Camillus Cutlery and plan to begin making knives based on the defunct factory's patterns.
Knives made from Camillus' patterns will appear either this year or early next year in the catalogs of the Ontario Knife Co., in Franklinville, Cattaraugus County, and Bear & Son Cutlery Inc., of Jacksonville, Ala., their executives said Friday.
They will not, however, have the Camillus name. Acme United Corp. of Fairfield, Conn., paid $185,000 at a auction Tuesday for the Camillus' name, Web site, trademarks, brand names and patents.
Bear & Son owner Ken Griffey Jr. (not the famous ballplayer) said the Camillus knife patterns fill a niche for people who want to own an "old-timey" knife.
Bear and Ontario Knife bought the majority of the former knife plant's tooling, said Nick Trbovich Jr., president and chief executive of Ontario and chairman chief executive of its sister company Queen Cutlery in Titusville, Pa. Both companies are owned by Servotronics Inc., of Elma.
Camillus Cutlery closed in February and the contents of the factory were sold at auction this week to repay its debt.