Despite making almost 40 billion ballpoint pens a year, until recently China was struggling to manufacture one component domestically. WSJ explains what made it so difficult. Illustration: Menglin ...

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Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

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Canevet gave more details about what pen makers might do to various models of ballpoint pens in response to this norm: The cap might have a single hole, or several holes placed at the top of the ...