TOOL TEST
90 degrees
from Sweden
This article will be of particular interest to those who were not yet
aware that Phoenix Contact also manufactures hand tools. This
is because we are not only looking at the Scandinavian place of
origin, but also at the performance of the metal Swedish snippers.
We put the Crimpfox Duo 10 to the test with a practitioner.
Julius Stückemann has taken
on the two pairs of pliers
Click, click, and click again – Julius Stückemann is
fascinated. The junior boss of the traditional Bielefeld
company ITS Stückemann turns the die of the Swedish
Crimpfox Duo 10 by 90 degrees again and again. “This is
really ingenious, we have never seen anything like this on
other crimping tools before.” This will not be the only praise
uttered by experts during this tool test.
Swedish steel for the control cabinet
The Crimpfox Duo 10 is made in Älvdalen in Sweden – the
headquarters of the toolmaker Pressmaster. The Norsemen
have been manufacturing pioneering precision tools,
especially for the electrical trade, here in the heart of Sweden
since 1976. As early as 1973, the C-Frame, the world’s first
modern crimping tool with ratchet mechanism, was invented
and patented, at that time still in Stockholm.
In 1975, Pressmaster went one step further and developed
the self-adjusting stripping tool. The Pressmaster Tool
production facility was then opened in Älvdalen in 1976.
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