Fiskars.com - The company best known for its iconic orange-handled scissors and beautifully functional products that are perfect for gardening, creating, and cooking was founded back in 1649 as an ironworks by the Fiskars river in Finland. The Fiskars Handy axe series introduced axes with plastic shafts. Their lightness and splitting power attracted widespread admiration. A result of product development at Fiskars, the combination of steel and special plastic was in a class of its own in terms of durability.