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We met an industrial designer Komin Yamada through our acquaintances, and commissioned him to design new products....

Global kitchen knives were first designed in 1985 by the creative visionary, Komin Yamada.

Each model is a signature design, a masterpiece by the renowned Komin Yamada, which catches the eye from the very first moment.

We met an industrial designer Komin Yamada through our acquaintances, and commissioned him to design new products.

Industrial designer Komin Yamada was commissioned to create these kitchen knives.

GLOBAL knives 1985 first created by industrial designer and visionary Komin Yamada.

Global (cutlery)

Japanese cutlery manufacturer

GLOBAL is a Japanese brand of kitchen knives and accessory tools owned and manufactured by the Yoshikin factory of Japan (also known as the Yoshida Metal Industry Co.

Ltd^[1]). The Yoshikin Factory is owned by the Watanabe family and located in Tsubame, Japan.

History

Yoshida Metal Industry Co. Ltd. was established in 1954 as a western tableware manufacturer in Niigata prefecture, producing hollow handled table knives for Western markets.

In 1960 Yoshikin introduced the Bunmei series of knives,^[2] traditional Japanese-looking knives that used a new alloy steel, able to be sharpened like carbon steel, but with a mixture of molybdenum and vanadium that made the steel more resistant to rust (now known colloquially as Japanese steel).^[3] In 1983, Yoshikin hired a Japanese industrial designer, Komin Yamada, to create a knife design that combined these two manufacturing techniques.^[4] GLOBAL