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I work for a garden supply center, and this is our busiest time of the year.  I particularly like the durability and sharpness in the Martor Box Topper 9929.  I buy my own supply and use them to cut down the cardboard boxes we use for transporting the plants from the nursery.  Also they come [...]

I noticed there were a couple of new balsa wood kits at our house.  It’s an old hobby of my spouse, and once in a while he buys a kit from the sale rack at our local Hobbytown.  He knows just the right tool for cutting out the pieces, and just the right grade of [...]

I was in the local fabric store last week, and I was looking at all the beautiful Spring wreaths on display.  Also I was looking for a stencil pattern or sheet material so I could design and cut my own stencil with an artist knife.  You probably understand the advantages of using professional tools; smoother [...]

Safety training is an ongoing program.  If you are a facilities manager, you are probably responsible on getting each employee trained and signed off for the training, especially if you have a manufacturing facility.  As employees come on board or as your business grows, safety training starts all over. If you work in a manufacturing [...]

If you are needing to replace or reorder safety knives for your company, let me share my experience with Martor USA. com.  I work in a small packaging company with around 40 employees.  Our little packaging group handles a website’s outbound orders.  On an average day our team makes hundreds of boxes, fills the order, [...]

Are you in an industry where the plant and floor managers are certified in plant safety, and have a printed safety manual on the work floor at all times.  Safety plans number one goal is usually focused on reducing  recordable accidents in the workplace.  Trained employees know  a few accidents and write ups can hurt [...]

If you have a lot of cutting jobs, or iff you are handling tough and often difficult cutting jobs the  automatic self retracting knife will become the best tool in your toolbox .  The knife’s spring loaded blade is designed for precision cutting and efficiency. Manufactured by Martor USA, this knife is used for cutting [...]

If you’ve ever had a laceration from using any type of knife, you quickly learn to be more careful.  Thankfully quality utility knives actually have safety built into the design today. Plus the materials used to make the blades let them stay sharper longer and the handles are sturdy and designed to fit one’s hand. [...]

At our small company the end of each year is the time to reorder supplies and inventory all tools and equipment for the coming year.  All employees are trusted to check their own equipment such as computers, printers, telephones and sign off on a check sheet that the serial numbers are correctly assigned to them.  [...]

I was in one of my local discounter’s stores last week, and while the stock on the shelves was low because of the Holiday rush, I noticed all the many corrugated boxes in the stockroom.  It’s so important in retail location to instruct employees  on the use of boxcutters, and to buy cutters that have [...]