what is a olfa
Olfa Corporation (ãªã«ãã¡æ ªå¼ä¼ç¤¾, Orufa Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese manufacturer of utility knives, founded in 1956 in Osaka, Japan.The name is derived from the Japanese words oru (æã, bend and break) and ha (å, blade).ounder Yoshio Okada and his younger brother Saburo worked for printing companies where they cut paper with razor blades, but the blades quickly became unusable as their edges wore out.