Henkel Knives

The Henkel brand is the brand of the Zwilling J.A. Henckels manufacturing company, one of the worlds leading for high quality knives.  The company has been around for many generations and uses this knowledge and experience with creative minds and technological expertise to constantly move the quality and innovation forward.  Teamwork of countless individuals drives this forward.

One of the major factors that separates the big boys from the small timers is the grade of steel.  The method for actually making this steel is incredibly important and will determine the characteristics of the knife.  If you know exactly what does what in the process you can focus on the wanted aspects of the knife such as hardness and flexibility and leave out the qualites unwanted such as brittle steel and steel that dulls quickly.

While it is a difficult and daunting task to be able to offer a knife that is multifunctional for every purpose of a knife, the experience and competence of over 100 years of manufacturing and design will get you the closest possible to that idea of perfection.

Let’s give a little overview of what needs to be known about quality knives, where the differences in quality come from and what the consequences of that benefit is.

There are stamped, forged, and the never needs sharpening series.

The quality of the knife is decided by the grade of steel used.  The two most important characteristics that you want and determines the best grades of steel is corrosion resistance and hardness.  This can be achieved by corresponding the chemical composition with the correct heat treatment.  J.A. Henckels has this process down since not only has it been in business figuring this perfect formula out for over 100 years, it actually used to be a steel producer.

Stainless steel has become the standard steel in knife manufacturing.  Until 1965 the henkel knives brand produced its very own steel.  The company did all the research and testing to find out by themselves how to produce the very qualities from the steel that they need to meet the demanding requirements of the cutlery industry.  Henkels now has the perfect recipe with the very optimum ratios of carbon, chromium, and other components which is still being used in their knives today.