If you come from any kind of scientific or engineering background, I’d be fairly confident that a pencil is your writing implement of choice, specifically a mechanical or propelling pencil. For most ...

LAMY’s operations in Heidelberg will remain. Mitsubishi Pencil Co Ltd., creator of the Uni and Uni-ball pen brands, has taken over pen manufacturer C. Josef Lamy GmbH and the LAMY brand.

The two companies have few competing products between them. Mitsubishi Pencil, known for its uni brand ballpoint pens, pencils and erasers, offers products mostly priced under 1,000 yen ($6.63).