“Below, you’ll find a list of brands that offer double edge razor blades manufactured within the EU, excluding European brands that import blades from outside the European Union.”
- BIC 🇬🇷
- Böker Solingen 🇩🇪
- Fatip 🇮🇹
- Merkur 🇩🇪
- Kyone 🇳🇱
- MÜHLE 🇩🇪
- Personna 🇩🇪
- Rex Supply Co 🇨🇿
- Tatara 🇵🇹
- Tatra 🇨🇿
- Dovo 🇩🇪
- Tiger 🇨🇿
- Wilkinson Sword 🇩🇪
It’s a city, of course Solingen still exists. Solingen is a protected trademark for knifes, scissors and alike made there. And currently, some brands do still actually produce there. Böker does produce their “cheap” tactical and outdoor knifes in China though (branded “Böker” without Solingen), but I think this doesn’t apply for razor knifes.
I knew Solingen as a brand through men in my family, from a barber and later on through a book. And the straight razors were just called Solingen, nothing else. I was never told the name stood for anything else but a manufacturer.
I was very disappointed, when I came to the age of needing to shave, that Solingen was no more. I was always told their fare was very good. Every place I went to always said the brand had been out of the market since the mid 90’s. Which is obviously a lie, after today. Even barbers were buying japanese or english scissors and straight razors, then.
And after checking the prices for my national made razors, I’ll sooner buy a Solingen than a Tatara. I like my country very much but I don’t see myself spending 175€ for a safety razor when I can get one for 50€.
Solingen sounds like quality, Tatara sounds like luxury brand.
Solingen has always (as of 1938) been a protected brand for cutting devices made there. They often were produced at home workshops and then only branded just Solingen. AfaIk, these don’t exist anymore.
Yet lots of different brands, e.g. Zwilling, Wasa, Merkur, Mühle, Windmühle, Otter, Giesen & Forsthoff, … have prduced and still produce there and label their products additionally with Solingen.
Today I learned.