You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs, as the saying goes. And where we cut injuries occur, unfortunately. In Germany alone, over 40,000 cutting accidents are reported to insurers every year. The number of unreported cases is unknown.
Cutting injuries and damaged goods
The consequences are regularly similar: users who are absent for a long time – and employers who have to compensate for these absences. Besides cut injuries, there is a second everyday category of cutting accidents: Damage to goods when the packaging is improperly cut open. This is also associated with considerable costs.
Both types of damage are almost always caused by suboptimal cutting tools, such as cutters, which are unsafe and not adapted. Not adapted means: equipped with a blade length that does not match the thickness of the material to be cut. Added to this, and this is crucial, is the lack of a safety function. But there is a solution: safety knives – from the market and quality leader MARTOR.
Pioneer and leading brand
In 1976, MARTOR launched the PROFI, the world’s first GS-certified safety knife. Today, the family-owned company from Solingen is the leading brand for safe cutting in the workplace. With subsidiaries in France and the USA and a dense network of reliable sales partners.
Customers from industry, trade and logistics in over 80 countries worldwide now use MARTOR safety knives to open all common types of packaging and cut a wide variety of materials – from cardboard to film to plastic strapping, from foam to rubber mats to granulate bags. Benefits for the companies: efficient work processes, significantly fewer cuts and much less damage to goods.
Three safety techniques
The safety technologies integrated in the MARTOR safety knives guarantee increased user and product protection: the concealed blade, the fully automatic and the automatic blade retraction.In the SECUMAX knives with concealed blade, the blade is so safely shielded that neither the user nor the goods come into contact with it: the highest safety level at MARTOR.
In the SECUPRO knives with fully automatic blade retraction, the blade springs back into the handle as soon as it leaves the cutting material. “Fully automatic” because you don’t even have to let go of the slide or lever with which you move the blade for this.
With the SECUNORM knives with automatic blade retraction, the blade also disappears in a flash at the end of the cut – on one condition: You have already taken your thumb off the trigger beforehand.
Suitable selection
In MARTOR’s GS-approved safety knife range, you have the choice between universal and special cutting tools, between aluminium and plastic handles, between large and small cutting depths, between steel and ceramic blades, etc. In addition, there is the family of metal-detectable safety blades, especially for sensitive industries such as the food and pharmaceutical industries. So you will find exactly the cutting solution you need for your application.
Ergonomics, robustness, comfort
Common to all safety knives – apart from the increase in work safety – is the characteristic MARTOR product design, which goes far beyond the harmonious outer appearance.MARTOR knives are ergonomically shaped, robustly constructed and comfortably equipped. This not only makes it particularly easy for the professional user to perform high cutting frequencies, which can run into the thousands every day. Even the blade change that may become necessary at some point is easy, quick and, above all, safe.
The MARTOR range of high-quality safety knives is complemented by a wide selection of matching quality blades, accessories and a small range of scrapers, deburrers, scalpels etc. You will find safety knives and accessories in the online shop of reichelt elektronik.
Reliable service partner
Also an integral part of the MARTOR DNA: the tailor-made services. We do not leave you alone before and after the purchase of our products, on the contrary. Our technical advisors are available for workplace inspections when it comes to complex cutting problems and optimal product selection. Our training videos, safety posters and knife plans help to implement our cutting tools in the workplace and give you a safe feeling when handling them.
In addition, you can take advantage of our individual training and education offer to internalise the MARTOR world of safe cutting even more in theory and practice. Further information in 15 languages and the mentioned media can be found at www.martor.com.
