American Safety Razor Company in a management buyout. Energizer bought the privately held American Safety Razor in 2011, when it filed for bankruptcy. In 2015, Energizer spun off the personal care division as Edgewell Personal Care. Edgewell announced the sale of its Personna Industrial Division to an investment group, which renamed it AccuTec Blades. American Safety Razor Company "For the company of the same name that was founded in 1901 and renamed as the Gillette Safety Razor Company, see Gillette (brand)" American Safety Razor Company is a personal care brand founded in the early 20th century (1906) by a merging of the Gem Cutlery
Razor strop Razor strop A razor strop (or razor strap) is a flexible strip of leather, canvas, denim fabric, balsa wood, or other soft material, used to straighten and polish the blade of a straight razor, a knife, or a woodworking tool like a chisel. In many cases stropping re-aligns parts of the blade edge that have been bent out of alignment. In other cases, especially when abrasive polishing compound is used, stropping may remove a small amount of metal. Stropping can also burnish (i.e. push metal around on) the blade. The strop may be a hanging strop or a hand-held paddle.