The orange-handled scissors became the icon.
Fiskars began as an ironworks in a Finnish village carrying the same name. After centuries of tools and metalwork, Olof Bäckström’s orange-handled scissors became its best-known modern product.
- 1649
Fiskars ironworks is founded.
- 1967
The first orange-handled scissors enter production.
- Today
The group makes garden, craft and kitchen tools globally.



