In response to the increasing insinuations and dissemination of untruthful information regarding StM from unscrupulous competitors, StM officially announces that

1. All of StM’s own production facilities, including blade and garment manufacturing, are successfully operating and shipping finished products to customers around the world;
2. The volume of StM products produced and sold increases year after year;
3. StM manufactures the most complete range of sport fencing blades of ALL types and sizes – both FIE maraging and ordinal;
4. StM does not plan to leave the fencing products market in the foreseeable future, nor does it plan to sell or liquidate its own fencing production facilities and its own office premises;
5. StM is not planning any staff reductions – on the contrary, StM is actively seeking and recruiting qualified employees to work in the StM system.