A Little Reference To A Lighter
Many people think of the United States as the birthplace of the lighter, but the flamboyant gadget actually originated in England. In 1917, during the First World War, a strange poster appeared in front of some British tobacco shops. A soldier was holding a cigarette in his mouth, a rifle in one hand, and an inflammable trinket in the other. People who do not know the details think that the British Army has launched what new weapons, in fact, it is only today's cigarette lighters that have long been known to everyone.
It is reported that the lighter was invented by a young man named Alfred Danhill in London. At that time, he learned that front-line soldiers who wanted to smoke were often unable to light their matches because they were damp. So he decided to develop a lighter that was easy to carry without getting damp, and he later developed a lighter composed of a metal shell and a roof structure with the help of a chemist. The lighters went into mass production in 1924 after improvements, and World War I was over before most front-line smokers could use them.
The manufacturing center of the world's lighters has shifted to China, China has obvious labor cost advantages, and more than 15 billion lighters are produced domestically each year, of which more than 6.5 billion are exported. Has formed a relatively complete plastic lighter industry group including raw material supply, parts manufacturing, product assembly, the most important production base is Ningbo (mainly producing plastic electronic lighters), Guangdong (mainly producing plastic grinding wheel lighters) and Wenzhou (mainly producing metal lighters). However, the industry competition is fierce, the degree of marketization is high, the domestic manufacturers of lighters are more than a thousand, and the production capacity of more than 100 million manufacturers are about 30. The main companies of global lighters include French listed company BIC, SWEDISH listed company SWEDISH MATCH, Japanese TOKAI, Spanish FLAMAGAS, the company's sales rank about fourth in the world, TOKAI, China's lighter manufacturers have occupied more than 95% of the global lighter market share.
