company industry knives 1 founded vero beach florida 1994 headquarters fletcher north carolina key people tony and susan marfione 2 products knives number of employees 25 3 website www.microtechknives.com microtech knives inc. is a knife manufacturing company famous for its automatic knives 2 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 . in 2007 the company began manufacturing an american made version of the steyr aug under the subsidiary name of microtech small arms research msar . 1 a microtech hawk and otf scarab the company has long promoted itself as stressing quality with regard to tight machining tolerances to within one thousandth of an inch 0.001 . 2 4 microtech has designed knives for use by the us military such as the halo udt socom and currahee models . 2 5 custom knifemakers such as greg lightfoot have remarked that these tolerances are what makes the factory knives so close to the custom design it has the same quality as a handmade custom . 6 although microtech has produced many styles of blades such as kitchen knives fishing knives arrow heads and balisong knives ; microtech is most famous for its tactical automatic knives . 7 the most popular designs among collectors are the out the front otf and the double action d a automatics . 8 microtech along with benchmade knives was responsible for the resurgence in the popularity of tactical automatic knives in the 1990s . 8 these knives were seen more as a precision made tool utilizing powerful springs and high grade bushings as opposed to a cheap import . 8 microtech has collaborated with famous knifemakers and designers such as ernest emerson bob terzuola mick strider walter brend mike turber greg lightfoot and reese weiland on exclusive designs . 6 a microtech knives halo was featured on the television series 24 . 9 microtech small arms research edit microtech small arms research msar type privately held company industry firearms founded vero beach fl 1994 headquarters fletcher nc key people tony marfione 2 products firearms and firearms accessories number of employees 30 10 website www.msarinc.com microtech small arms research msar is a subsidiary of microtech knives which manufactures an american made version of the steyr aug known as the msar stg 556 . 1 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 . 11 msar markets accessories for its rifles . msar closed down in march 2015 . 12 references edit a b c choat chris march 2008 microtech s stg 556 an exclusive first look small arms review 11 6 43 50 a b c d e walker greg 1995 magnum autos from microtech fighting knives magazine 8 3 12 13 32 52 . cite error invalid ref tag ; 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