Knipex tools are principally used by professionals in various trades but find increasing popularity in DIY and EDC markets.

In its early days manufacture focused on carpenter's pincers and farrier's tongs, at first made by hand and then increasingly produced using drop forging hammers.

At the apex of the company's success under Carl Putsch the forge had 27 employees and finished 7,000 sets of pliers per week.

During the economic expansion of West Germany during the 1950s Knipex has continually added new and more specialized types of pliers to its catalog.

The tool catalog of Knipex encompasses about a hundred types of pliers, with more than 900 variants in length, handle design and finish.

The range also includes special electrician's tools for cutting, stripping and crimping conducting wire.

The tools specialized for electrical work find application in aerospace, solar power technology and optical fiber installation.

Many of these tools are available in a parallel line of electrically insulated items, designed to protect users from voltages up to 1 kV and the currents they may induce.

These workers are spread over four German production companies as well as in a number of international sales offices located in the United States, Russia, China, the Middle East and Mexico.