kabushiki gaisha tonbo enpitsu founded 1913 ; 103 years ago 1913 in tokyo japan founder ogawa harunosuke headquarters tokyo japan area served worldwide products pens pencils and other stationery website www.tombow.com en tombow pencil co. ltd. kabushiki gaisha tonbo enpitsu is a japanese manufacturer of pens and pencils and other stationery . the company was founded in 1913 as messrs tombow and has since grown into an international business . based in tokyo with 398 employees 2010 1 tombow also has two overseas production facilities in thailand and vietnam . tombow thailand is the first overseas factory of tombow with 425 employees december 2007 and 6 480 square meters building area . contents 1 products 1.1 brush pens 1.2 zoom 1.3 airpress 2 references 3 external links products edit brush pens edit traditional japanese calligraphy is done with brush and ink . this is not particularly practical for office or school use . but one can now obtain fudepen or brush pens such as tombow s fudenosuke . these pens have a soft brushlike nib which provides a varying width mark depending on angle and pressure . zoom edit the zoom 414 pen designed by kazunori katami won the red dot design award in 2007 . 2 it combines a ballpoint pen a mechanical pencil a highlighter and an eraser in one slim design . airpress edit the airpress pen features innovative air pressure technology is always ready for writing . the ballpoint pen works unusual situations such as writing overhead in dusty locations or on wet paper . the airpress pen was awarded with the red dot design award 2010 for its product design . references edit tombow company profile red dot store external links edit tombow tombow pen & pencil gmbh germany europe american tombow inc. usa retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tombow & oldid 728471151 categories art materials brandscompanies based in tokyocompanies of japanjapanese brandsjapanese stationeryfountain pen and ink manufacturers1913 establishments in japanhidden categories articles containing japanese language text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 5 july 2016 at 17 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view