Pentel Stationery (India) Pvt. Ltd. Goregaon, Mumbai, Maharashtra

The company has come a long way since it was founded in 1946 as Japan Stationery Limited in Tokyo, by the late former chairman, Yokio Horie, who made it his mission to develop crayons and pastels that would help people express their creativity. Mr Horie succeeded in combining crayons and pastels to produce his first product for sale in 1951, followed by the Pentel Pencil in 1960.In 1963 Pentel came to the attention of the world when it launched the Sign Pen, an acrylic-fibre pen that revolutionised the way we write and made headlines when it was spotted at a trade fair in the United States and subsequently fell into the hands of President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Sign Pen was even adopted as the official writing instrument of NASA and went into space with a Gemini mission in 1966. To date, more than two billion Sign Pens have been sold around the world.
In 1971 the company changed its name to Pentel Co. Ltd. Reflecting the close connection between painting pastels and pens and the word 'tell', as in communicating and expressing.
1972 saw the launch of another iconic product, the green barrelled Ball Pentel rollerball. With its cushioned ball tip and water-based ink this pen inspired the development of future, everyday writing instruments. Over the coming years the rollerball became the cool pen to have in every pencil case, studio or office. An archive photo even shows Her Majesty the Queen marking her race card with the famous pen.The future of writing...
it is estimated that, today, in the region of two-thirds of the writing instruments technology in everyday use around the world has been inspired by Pentel innovation
The mission to produce products offering superior performance continues and the most important of late has been EnerGel. Unlike conventional gel pens, which provide strong, vivid colour but often slow drying time EnerGel ink dries quickly, making it suitable for left-handed writers as well as right. Those who are left-handed often comment that regular gel ink smudges as their hand moves across the page, leaving messy ink splodges on hands and paper. Thanks to EnerGel's quick drying formula this problem is virtually eradicated on most everyday writing paper.