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The compliment to Bahco ergonomic design is the steel used to create our blades. Swedish high carbon

steel with just a pinch of chrome allows us to put an edge on our blades that will last longer than any

other tool you can find. After using Bahco, every other brand just feels dull in your hand. It starts with

our secret steel recipe but extends to the finishing of our blades...

In 1889 a salesman in Sweden named Bengt August Hjort joined with two inventors of handtools, F. E.

Lindstrom who had invented wire cutters so strong they could cut the hard wire used to make fish

hooks, and J. P. Johansson who had created the first adjustable pipe wrench. Mr. Hjort named the

enterprise after himself: B. A. Hjort Company, which was eventually shortened to BAHCO and is now

commonly written as Bahco...

Years of scientific research and hundreds of user tests by the pioneers in ergonomic design – professor

Thomas Armstrong of Michigan University who wrote the book on ergonomics, and Olle Bobjer who

founded the most well-known design firm in the field and is renowned not only for hand tool design at

Bahco but for creating the Baby Björn carrier known round the world – resulted in the PX and PXR

designs utilized on our top-of-the-line secateurs.

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The design of the ergonomic pruner results from five years of scientific research and hundreds of user

tests all over the world. The benefit of the design of the ergonomic pruners has two major advantages

for the end-users: less fatigue at the end of the day and a less painful, longer and more productive

working life.