Private company
Microtech Knives
Logo: microtechknives.com3
American knife manufacturer
Microtech Knives, Inc. is a knife manufacturing company, famous for its automatic knives, that was founded in Vero Beach, Florida in 1994, and operated there until relocating to Bradford, Pennsylvania in 2005 and to Fletcher, North Carolina in 2009. The company expanded the location of its Corporate Headquarters in nearby Mills River, NC in 2018. Microtech now has two active manufacturing factories and one corporate headquarters location.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- Industryindustrial manufacturing1
- HeadquartersFletcher1
- Founded inVero Beach1
- Websitewww.microtechknives.com
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Microtech Knives, Inc. is a knife manufacturing company, famous for its automatic knives, that was founded in Vero Beach, Florida in 1994, and operated there until relocating to Bradford, Pennsylvania in 2005 and to Fletcher, North Carolina in 2009. The company expanded the location of its Corporate Headquarters in nearby Mills River, NC in 2018. Microtech now has two active manufacturing factories and one corporate headquarters location.2
Products and brands
Microtech Small Arms Research (MSAR) was a subsidiary of Microtech Knives which manufactured an American-made version of the Steyr AUG known as the MSAR STG-556. Introduced at the 2007 SHOT Show, the MSAR STG-556 is an AUG A1 clone available in either civilian, semi-automatic only and military/LE, select-fire variants.
MSAR marketed accessories for its rifles until Microtech Knives Inc. closed down the division in March 2015.
From Wikipedia’s article on Microtech Knives, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
Timeline
- 1994Founded Founded in Vero Beach1
Funding
Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.
- PPP loans $1.3M
Figures by year
| Year | PPP loans | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.3M |
PPP loans
Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA6. Matched to this company by name and state.
- Apr 7, 2020$1.3M PPP loan (first draw) from United FCU6To MICROTECH KNIVES, INC., Fletcher NC; $1.3M forgiven Jun 17, 2021
Links
- Websitewww.microtechknives.com1
- X (Twitter)x.com/microtechknives1
- Facebookwww.facebook.com/MicrotechKnivesOfficial1
- Instagramwww.instagram.com/microtechknives1
- WikipediaMicrotech Knives
- WikidataQ6840399
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataMicrotech Knives on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaMicrotech Knives on Wikipedia
- 3Company websiteMicrotech Knives logo
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- 5Wikimedia CommonsMicrotech Knives photo by Mike Searson at English Wikipedia, CC0
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