State-owned Taiyuan Iron and Steel (Group) Co plans to mass-produce ballpoint pen tips and replace imports in two years, company officials said on Tuesday. The group has spent five years on research and development to acquire the ...
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Premier Li Keqiang has pledged "firmer resolve and greater efforts" to tackle the long-standing problem of industrial overcapacity as "old growth drivers" such as manufacturing and investment continue to struggle. China is experiencing a ...
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In honor of its 90th anniversary, Montblanc hopes to write history with a new limited collection of items that will pay homage to its iconic pen, the Meisterstuck. Starting today, the brand will launch a limited collection of items at their ...
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Environmentally friendly, or green office supplies are appearing more and more often, so I thought I would take a look at the Paper Mate Biodegradable Pen that I picked up from OfficeMax and which is also available in more varieties here ...
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I’m sure that many of you have already seen the above Uniball commercial that explains some of the benefits of their pens in preventing identity theft and fraud, and I know that there have been some other good posts on other pen ...
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The nice folks from Bic sent over a bunch of items recently that I will be reviewing, so I thought the first item we should take a look at are these Bic Cristal Bold Colors 1.6mm Ballpoint Pens. One thing that I didn't notice until after I ...
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I was recently contacted by our friends over at OfficeMax in regards to their new and improved line up of TUL Pens. In addition to sending over one set of the new pens for review purposes, they were also generous enough to send an ...
The average worker uses$500 worth of office supplies every year,and that's if they're not the type to help themselves to the occasional nifty notebook or shiny new pen for use during their off-hours.Multiply that by the number of workers at ...
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I actually forgot for a while that I even had this Uni-ball alpha gel HD ballpoint .7mm pen until I was straightening out my desk a bit last night and I came across it again. I had initially purchased it from JetPens.com a few months ago ...
Tags: Ballpoint Pen, Office Supplies, Uni-ball alpha gel HD ballpoint
Green office supplies (my Hub page on the topic) are the topic of the day on this Earth Day. I’m not a huge fan of multi-billion dollar government-run programs to subsidize things or thrust such burdens on us as consumers or business ...
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Staples XENO Retractable Ballpoint Pens The other day when I was at my local Staples,I saw these Staples Brand XENO Retractable ballpoint pens,and while I don't normally like ballpoints,I really liked the unique design of ...
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Several categories in the UK office products market are showing positive trends, according to data compiled by research firm GfK. Total writing instruments (TWI) declined by seven per cent in volume sales but sales value only declined by ...
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ALMHULT, Sweden—That couch catching your eye in the 2013 edition of IKEA's new catalog may not be a couch at all. It is likely the entire living room was created by a graphic artist. In fact, much of the furniture and settings in the ...
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This Pentel Vicuna Multi Pen with Mechanical Pencil was graciously offered up to me by Brad and the folks at Jetpens. Since I have a problem saying "No" to any conversation that starts with "Would you like to try this pen?" we have a ...
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