Scissors :
A lot of articles are for professional uses. Each profession : tailors, sheet sellers, linen women, horse sellers, dressers, grape pickers… has its specific scissors. Others are only made for women 's work as sewing, embroidery, cloth mending. Recently, scissors to cut babies nails and scissors with rounded end for school children has been developed.

Shavers :
Shavers were sold to professional or occasionnal hairdressers, to barbers and private individuals. Later, the razor blade replaced simple shavers.

Tool making :
Joinery (chisels, steel chisels), metal working (gravers, files), farming (shears, blade for bleeding) sugar cane planters in colonies (machete, saladeras), required THIERS' s manufacturing in the 19 th century and so it became a world wide market.. Machine tool cutting off wheels, etc… consigned those products to sink in oblivion, except for the export of the machete towards tropical countries.

Table cutlery :
The creation of princes, table cutlery, became common through the 19 th and 20 th centuries with the appearance of dining rooms. Table knife, dessert knife, knife for fish, spoons and forks in several dimension and for several uses. The Art of the Table is both for High class and common people adapting itself according the period (we can speak about style) and fashion (we can speak about tendency).

Professional cutlery :
Kitchen knives are still exported all around the world, taking advantages of French cooking fame and its high promotion by media. All those "Mouth profession" need specific knives (butchers, chefs, to bone, sole fillet) which materials changed according hygiene norms : stainless steel for blades, duplicated molding nylon for handles. Restaurants owners, delicatessen, butchers, pork butcher, fishmongers, scalers, collectivites cookers, etc… are this professionnal branch customers.

Pocket cutlery :
To have a knife in their pocket or in their apron was always necessary for farmers. Each area created a specific model : The Savoyard,, The Laguiole, The Montpellier, The Montron, The Pradel. Even if this necessity to possess most of the time a knife in the pocket became unfashionnnable for a generation (from 1950 to 1980), today's population rediscovers this pleasure to possess a knife to do anything, should it be a simple one as Opinel or Capucin, or a hunting knife, or a little collector's knife, a new knife specific to the area (The THIERS, The MEDITERRRANEE, The DAUPHINOIS….).

Industrial diversification of the XXth century :
Even if the cutlery activity seems to dominate economy during the XIX th century and the beginning of the XXth century - in comparison of activities which declining as paper industry - others industrial activities are appearing.

Metal work remains preponderant. Forge produces knives and cutlery, scissors, but also articles for car industry (connecting rod, bearing,) marin hardware (musket, manilla hemp), high tech surgery (hip prothesis made in titanium alloy….).

Cutting off, little mechanical work, cutting tool making (except knives), stainless steel plating, stainless steel goldsmithing are different products of THIERS area.

The horn working, but also other synthetic material of the Belle Epoque (Galalith, Bakelite, celluloid) created the heat casting.

Plastic material which are today used in the making of knive handles, are also used to cast shoes, different containers, tips….