Knife factory in Yangjiang, China — since 2008
Founded 2008 in Yangjiang, Zhejiang — China's blade-manufacturing capital. 12,000 sqm vertically integrated facility. 240+ employees. Shipped to 40+ countries.
A factory, not a trading company.
TANGFORGE owns every step of production — cutting, forging, CNC grinding, heat treatment, polishing, laser engraving, assembly, QC, packaging. No outsourced stages. When something goes wrong, there's one phone number to call.
We started in 2008 as a kitchen-knife OEM for European retailers. Today our split is roughly 40% kitchen, 25% pocket/folding, 20% outdoor/hunting, 15% Damascus and gift sets. We ship to 40+ countries and run roughly 60 active brand programs at any time.
What 17 years adds up to.
17+ years
In continuous operation. Same management team. Same facility.
12,000 sqm
Yangjiang, Zhejiang. Six production lines. Two QC labs.
240+ people
Including 12 industrial designers, 8 metallurgists, dedicated QC team.
40+ countries
US, EU, UK, Japan, Australia, Canada, South Korea, ME, LATAM.
Yangjiang —
China's knife capital.
Yangjiang in Guangdong has been a knife-forging town since the Ming Dynasty. Today it produces 75% of China's kitchen knives and exports over USD 2 billion annually. The supply chain for blade steel, handle materials, sheath leather, and packaging cardboard is denser here than anywhere else in the world.
What that means for you: faster sourcing, lower transport friction within the supply chain, and a workforce where knife-making is a multi-generation craft rather than a job assignment. Many of our senior craftsmen are the second or third generation in the trade.