According to the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA) over three billion retractable ball point pens and over 500 million mechanical pencils were shipped in the US in 2007. Many have ...

For anyone who loves writing by hand, there’s nothing like a good pen to give their penmanship a little boost. Though cursive handwriting is no longer a required part of current curriculums, and the ...

When 25-year-old Patrick Joseph Frawley Jr. went into the ball-point-pen business in 1949, he could not have picked a worse time. The market was flooded with pens; bankers warned against writing ...

Newell Brands, the company behind Paper Mate, Sharpie, Contigo, and Mr. Coffee, enlisted students to redesign its iconic products without plastic. Every year, humans produce 300 tons of plastic, much ...