Knives with this style of steel

It doesn't specify what steel is used so I'll assume you're looking for a knife with softer steel clad around harder steel. You might look at Spyderco and Kershaw for folders, the former did some knives out of ZDP189 and 420J2 and the latter just released a Leek in CPMD2 and 13C26 I believe. Fallkniven also does laminated blades.
 
Mcusta of Japan and William Henry Knives of Oregon also offer folders with laminated blades similar to the one to which you linked.
 
Cold Steel San Mai III is laminated like that in the traditional Japanese style. It allows for a tougher blade that will resist chipping and breaking with flexibility but that also allows for a very sharp and long enduring edge. They sandwich a hard steel like VG-1 inside layers of 420J, to a certain very-visible extent, to allow such an outcome.
 
The name of the layering is likely warikomi, which implies that the hard hagane is surrounded on both sides with the soft jigane. The knife you showed, uses likely an HC steel for the hagane, very common are either shirogami or aogami. The surrounding layers are traditionally wrought iron.

I doubt that you find this type of layering in folders that are not of traditional japanese origin and even there they are quite rare, while this is rather common for many fixed blades of traditional japanese make.

The alternatives have already been mentioned: A good HC stainless steel (!) surrounded in a warikomi fashion by softer stainless steel outer layers. Fallkniven in particular makes some very nice pocket knives in that fashion.
 
Except for the 2 steel lamination, the blade is almost "brut de forge" in finish.

Some CITADEL have the same. ( I don't know if I can put a shop link respecting the rules of the forum )
 
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