Blount now Oregon Tool - Landscape Management
Blount now Oregon Tool Blount unveiled a new corporate name that positions the company for growth while honoring its heritage: Oregon Tool. The global manufacturer of professional-grade cutting tools and equipment selected Oregon Tool as its new name to harness the power of its pioneering origin story. The company was founded by Joe Cox in 1947 in the basement of his Portland home. Inspired by nature — a timber beetle larva to be exact — Cox studied the creature to better understand how to cut wood more efficiently. He designed a new saw chain with his learnings that was modeled after th...