Clipper (lighter)
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Clipper is the brand name of a type of refillable butane
lighter
, designed by Enric Sardá and owned by Flamagas S.A. since 1959.
The registered round lighter shape has become a visual icon. The Clipper lighter is considered highly collectable due to the fact that the company is able to rely on a great team of designers, inspired by the most up to date trends in the market to constantly launch new and fashionable collections.
Clipper is the worldwide leader in refillable lighters, with a high quality brand positioning. The lighters are mostly produced in Barcelona
, (Spain
), while others are manufactured in Chennai
,(India
) and Shanghai
, (China
).. Clipper has a wide range of lighters, gas refills and other accessories. The first Clipper lighter was made in 1972, and now the level of production is around 450 million units / year that are distributed worldwide.
Clipper is a division of the parent company Flamagas S.A, which also distribute stationery and electronics for such brands as Casio
and Daewoo
Butane
Butane is a gas with the formula C4H10 that is an alkane with four carbon atoms. The term may refer to any of two structural isomers, or to a mixture of them: in the IUPAC nomenclature, however, butane refers only to the unbranched n-butane isomer; the other one being called "methylpropane" or...
lighter
Lighter
A lighter is a portable device used to generate a flame. It consists of a metal or plastic container filled with a flammable fluid or pressurized liquid gas, a means of ignition, and some provision for extinguishing the flame.- History :...
, designed by Enric Sardá and owned by Flamagas S.A. since 1959.
The registered round lighter shape has become a visual icon. The Clipper lighter is considered highly collectable due to the fact that the company is able to rely on a great team of designers, inspired by the most up to date trends in the market to constantly launch new and fashionable collections.
Clipper is the worldwide leader in refillable lighters, with a high quality brand positioning. The lighters are mostly produced in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, (Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
), while others are manufactured in Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
,(India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
) and Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
, (China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
).. Clipper has a wide range of lighters, gas refills and other accessories. The first Clipper lighter was made in 1972, and now the level of production is around 450 million units / year that are distributed worldwide.
Clipper is a division of the parent company Flamagas S.A, which also distribute stationery and electronics for such brands as Casio
Casio
is a multinational electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946, with its headquarters in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Casio is best known for its electronic products, such as calculators, audio equipment, PDAs, cameras, musical instruments, and watches...
and Daewoo
Daewoo
Daewoo or the Daewoo Group was a major South Korean chaebol . It was founded on 22 March 1967 as Daewoo Industrial and was dismantled by the Korean government in 1999...
Associations
Some people associate the use of the Clipper lighter with roll-your-own cigarettes. This is due to its removable flint system which is often used by smokers to poke rolled-up cigarettes, inCollectors
Many people collect the Clipper lighter due to the wide variety of designs that Clipper put on their lighters, which tend to follow current trends. Clipper has unique collections and also a great printing quality so there's a product differentiation. During recent years the term "Clipper Mania" has been coined due to many Clipper consumers collecting all the designs the company offers, which is why the Clipper lighter is considered as highly collectable. Many are also decorated and personalised in post-production.In popular culture
- British garage artist The StreetsThe StreetsThe Streets were a British rap/garage project from Birmingham, United Kingdom, led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner and has included a myriad of other contributors most notably drummer Johnny Drum Machine, vocalist Kevin Mark Trail and the Italian-American beatmaker Leroy.The...
used the Clipper lighter as his logo. The lighter (bearing the name of the artist) appears on all five of their album covers. Their merchandise includes branded Clipper lighters. - The Artist Damien HirstDamien HirstDamien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists , who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist,...
also used the images of the Clipper lighter in a series of Artworks together with Silk CutSilk CutSilk Cut is brand of low tar cigarette produced by the Gallaher Group. The packaging is characterised by a distinctive stark white packet with the brand name in a purple, blue, red, silver, white or green square....
tobacco boxes. - The authors Anna Hyndman & Graeme Milne wrote and published the novel "Figure of Eight" in 2010, with an original script showing a Clipper lighter as the main character and telling his life in the first person.