please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message rotring type private industry stationery founded 1928 headquarters hamburg germany area served worldwide products technical drawing tools owner newell brands parent sanford l.p. website www.rotring.com rotring stylized rotring is a german technical writing and drawing instruments company based in hamburg . contents 1 history 2 products 3 see also 4 notes and references 5 external links history edit the company was established in 1928 as tintenkuli handels gmbh . the company s first product was the tintenkuli a stylographic pen a fountain pen with a narrow steel tube instead of a conventional nib . while stylographic pens were already common in america and in fact pre dated conventional fountain pens they had not been previously marketed in europe and rotring would eventually become the name associated with such pens throughout the world . rot ring directly translates to red ring which is still placed around the barrel of their pens today . the company s name was changed to rotring in the early 70s to match the trademark . although stylographs never overtook fountain pens for use in writing by 1953 the rotring rapidograph became the prototypical technical pen of its age . its technology virtually replaced the ruling pen and greatly simplified technical drawing . rapidographs are still made today both by rotring and by koh i noor its us subsidiary . the advent in the 1990s of computer aided design cad saw the partial demise of the technical drawing pen . to combat this rotring diversified its range of graphic pens pencils and markers . in 1998 rotring was taken over by sanford an american company specialising in graphic products and part of newell rubbermaid inc. since 1992 1 rotring ships worldwide via their website rotring.com products edit rotring rapidograph 0.35 mm technical pen rotring isograph 0.35 mm technical pen the following chart contains all the rotring product lines . 2 brand range of products rapidograph isograph technical pens refill inks art pen calligraphy fountain pens refill inks rapid pro mechanical pencils leads tikky ballpoint pens markers mechanical pencils refills erasers precision compasses geometry squares lettering and circle stencils protractors rulers see also edit list of pen types brands and companies notes and references edit newell rubbermaid history pdf . newell rubbermaid . 10 june 2011 . retrieved 21 june 2010 . rotring products external links edit official website v t e fountain pen manufacturers by country australia curtis australia brazil crown canada andr juillet china baoer beifa hero jinhao croatia toz penkala czech republic koh i noor hardtmuth france bic cartier guy laroche herm s j. herbin jean pierre l pine maped pierre cardin r cife st dupont yves saint laurent germany diplomat faber castell garant graf von faber castell kaweco lamy montblanc online pelikan rotring schneider schwan stabilo senator staedtler india camlin chelpark luxor italy aurora columbus delta marlen montegrappa omas stipula visconti japan nakaya namiki ohto pentel pilot platinum sailor tombow uni ball zebra poland zenith portugal mab viarco russia krasin stamm spain inoxcrom sweden ballograf switzerland caran d ache turkey adel scrikss united kingdom ajoto conway stewart dunhill onoto twiss pens worcester pen company yard o led united states bexley broadwell sudios cross esterbrook eversharp krone paper mate parker sheaffer waterman wearever companies portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rotring & oldid 719238015 categories companies established in 1928newell rubbermaid brandsfountain pen and ink manufacturersgerman brandscompanies based in hamburgoffice supply companies of germany1928 establishments in germanyhidden categories articles needing additional references from july 2012all articles needing additional references 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 in other projects wikimedia commons languages catal deutschespa ol fran ais polskisuomisvenska t rk e edit links this page was last modified on 8 may 2016 at 12 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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