The Muela companies were started by spaniard Eladio Muela León in the mid 1950s, encouraged by the great success of his handcrafted 38-pieces folding knife with the German engineers of the Empetrol refinery, where Eladio was working at the time. The Muela Group is currently one of the reference firms in handcrafted knives for hunting, both in Spain and the rest of the world.