KNIPEX. The pliers brand.

We develop and produce pliers for professional use in trade and industry and distribute our products worldwide in the construction, electrical installation, plumbing, heating, air conditioning and automotive sectors, among others. Users must be able to rely on their tools every day and should expect precision and reliable functionality even after intensive use. We aim to offer the best solutions for their needs – pliers with the highest performance, ergonomic efficiency and durability. We secure this claim with constant further developments.

We have been pioneering ideas for pliers for decades. Producing innovative designs, we have constantly developed attention-grabbing solutions that enable users all over the world to work faster, more easily and with greater versatility. The numerous awards we have won for design and functionality confirm our success in these aims.

The KNIPEX brand is synonymous with the highest standards. Every new product and each of the many improvements is considered down to the last detail, subjected to tough stress and endurance tests and needs to prove itself in practice before it reaches the user.

We have been an independent family business for over 140 years and, with around 1,600 employees at our Wuppertal-Cronenberg location, we manufacture over 60,000 pliers every day.