Often confused with recycled pens as they share the common eco-friendly theme but Biodegradable Pens are entirely different.

Their unique contribution to the environment is due to their ability to decompose naturally once they are disposed of in a landfill. Many materials are used to make biodegradable promotional pens but the most popular are wood, paper and maize.

The Pen Warehouse has long been a distributor of Lecce Pen Company whose pedigree on promoting the use of environmentally friendly advertising products is without equal. Lecce Pen has been making biodegradable pens, mainly from an extract of Maize for almost 25 years – long before they became politically correct.  The Green Pens range is Lecce’s most time-honoured promotional pen and is still going strong after all this time.

Just browse our environmental range by clicking on the Eco Friendly tab to see our full offering.

Not regarded as a promotional item in themselves, the humble packaging that holds your business gift is often overlooked and none moreso than the promotional pen box.

Known under many names such as pen boxes, pen cases, pen presentation cases or pen display cases it is no wonder customers have a problem finding just what they want. At The Pen Warehouse, we carry a very large range of presentation packaging – there is something for everyone as follows.

• Plastic Pouches. Inexpensive and suitable for low cost pens
• Suede Pouches. Although these are very low cost, nevertheless they are often used as packaging for metal pens as they have a reasonably high perceived value
• Pen Tubes. These are manufactured to our own design and are perfect for low to medium cost pens including metal pens. We also stock aluminium pen tubes for that extra touch of luxury.
• Pen Boxes. These come in all sort of shapes and sizes and are made from metal, plastic or paper. We have pen cases for single pens and sets – the choice is yours.

Next time you order printed promotional pens why not consider presentation packaging as well to add value and is a valuable revenue stream

Typically, in  a recession large corporations to small businesses cut back on everything that is not a necessary spend. Promotional products certainly fall into that category and we have seen demand drop off for promotional pens in two ways – orders are getting smaller and orders are fewer. In addition we have seen a drop in the average unit value of printed pens and this is where there are opportunities for increasing sales of printed promotional pencils as they are generally cheaper than even the cheapest pens. Here is a list of the types of pencils we sell

• Printed Wooden Pencils: Low cost and we can now print up to 3 colours in close registration
• Printed Mechanical Pencils: Available in low cost versions up to executive types.
• Recycled Pencils: Available as recycled plastic pencils and recycled paper pencils
• FSC Pencils: Promotional wooden pencils with chain of custody certification
• Souvenir Pencils: Prismatic foil pencils, rainbow foil pencils and Popper pencils.
• Golf Pencils: Mini Pencils now available as half pencils, mini pencils with eraser and mechanical golf pencils
• Carpenters Pencils: Flat FSC pencils printed in line colours of in full colour
• Black Wood Pencils: Luxurious pencils made from black wood
• Colouring pencils: Half size colouring pencils, full length colouring pencils, Quartet Pencils, Topper Set and Sharp Set.

With so many printed promotional pencils to choose from at low cost we feel that we are a virtual one-stop-shop for promotional gift distributors.

Every now and then we would get an enquiry for an inexpensive double ended pen with either two pen refill colours or a stylus at one end and a pen at the other. We developed two capped pens for the purpose 4 years ago but we quickly realised that the caps kept getting lost by users. We went back to the drawing board and came up with the Duotwist and the Stylotwist Promotional Pens

These are different to the originals in that we removed the caps, increased the barrel diameter, put a twist-action mechanism each end and added some finger grips – phew! The result is:

1. The DuoTwist Ballpen – Black ink one end and blue ink the other end
2. The StyloTwist Ballpen – Black ink one end and a stylus the other end.

What’s the point of these I hear you ask! Here’s something to think about.

• They are inexpensive
• Two for the price of one
• No caps needed as the twist action each end eliminates the need
• Large barrel print area make these the perfect Promotional Printed Pens
• Great for applications that need two in one eg. delivery drivers that need a pen one end and a stylus the other end.

Hot Tip

Why not contact courier companies, transport companies, delivery services, national carriers etc and send them a picture of these brilliant pens and we are sure you will get a very favourable response.

DuoTwist and StyloTwist are registered designs and trademarks of The Pen Warehouse

Our company name, The Pen Warehouse, has been synonymous with The Lecce Pen Company since our inception and our symbiotic relationship continues to grow in strength year by year,

Lecce has long been a worldwide brand leader in the promotional pens market for the last 25 years with an enviable reputation for innovative styling. As the world’s brand-leader on advertising pens their ranges have been copied relentlessly by both European and Far-Eastern manufacturers but never equalld in terms of quality.

The technical know-how that comes with maturity when coupled with Italian flair and style ensures that the competition is in a permanent state of catch-me-up and this is as true today as it was 15 years ago. Take the latest product launch from Lecce Pens, the EcoAllene range. EcoAllene is a newly developed moulded material, the product of many year’s research between Lecce Pen and Tetra Pak. This research has led to The Lecce Pen Company developing a patented system for recycling drinks cartons. We are now seeing several promotional products emerge from this new technology, the latest being a range of EcoAllene pens.

The EcoAllene range is not only groundbreaking because it is the world’s first and still the only recycled drinks carton  material on the market but a recent development has produced the world’s first truly post-consumer recycled pen refill. This is now available in the Envirostick ballpen and its development provides a fantastic opportunity for our distributors to capitalise on the benefits this range brings.

We believe these writing instruments are amongst the most eco friendly pens on the market today and whether you require them as plain pens or Printed Pens we hold large stocks here in the UK.

The Biologo Ballpen is one of our newest eco friendly promotional products. Made from recycled paper and corn starch it is the very best in biodegradable materials.

With its large print area and great eco credentials this promotional pen is perfect for your next environmentally friendly promotion.

Hot Tip

Why not send an email to your all your local authority or public sector organisations extolling the virtues of this very cost-effective pen see how you can raise awareness of your distributor business. Printed Pens or Plain Pens, the choice is yours – Biologo the newest eco friendly pen on the block.

Biologo is a trademark of The Pen Warehouse

One of the major obstacles for a distributor  in selling promotional printed pencils is that you are limited to one colour printing in one position on round wooden pencils. The reason promotional pencil suppliers cannot provide multicolour printing on pencils is because there is no registration point to get a datum point from.

Well, we don’t let little things like that beat us at The Pen Warehouse and for the past 4 years we have been able to offer promotional pencils printed in up to 3 line colours in close registration. Generally speaking you can have these printed pencils either sharpened or unsharpened. Whether you want FSC Pencils, Recycled Pencils, Plastic Pencils, Recycled Paper Pencils, Golf Pencils or normal wooden pencils we can cater for your multicolour printing requirements.

To augment our range of multicolour printed pencils we recently added full clolour printing to our FSC Carpenter Pencil range. These Remarkable Pencils are the perfect promotional items for those eco friendly promotions.

As individuals we all like to think that we are unique in some way and that goes for businesses as well. .

At The Pen Warehouse we love dealing with distributors that want to offer new and innovative products and services because we prefer to concentrate on added-value rather than commodities. We believe we are well placed in this respect with our long history of introducing new concepts, ideas and services to the promotions market.

What has that got to do with printed pens I hear you ask! Well, after over 12 months of R&D we introduced much larger print areas on metal pens to the industry last year. This is not just a UK first, it is a ‘World’ first and only service. We can  now peripherally print on the barrel to within 2mm either side of the clip on many metal pens. That is about 85% of the pen’s circumference adjacent to the clip. 

We would rather not disclose how we developed this technique but it did involve fundamental design changes to the basic principles on how pen printing machines and ancilliaries work and how they are implemented.

This year we extended this large print area option on pad (tampo) printed pens as well and you may have recently seen our mailings on the new improved print areas on the Contour Ballpen. These improvements represent huge advantages to the more enterprising Distributor as they offer opportunities for adding value to your business and in turn this will help you improve margins during these very competitive times.

Call us for more details if you would further information or samples of printed pens with larger print areas.

Since we launched our fun video on the robotic pen on YouTube many distributors have directed their customer’s towards it. The result is that our customers have generated interest in a marginal product that would otherwise not have occurred.

If you follow the link to the Robotic pen above, you will see that we have now added an animated gif to the page to show the action of the pen. This can be incorporated in your own emailshots or added to your website to create interest in the product.

You will notice the image is without personalisation so that you do not need to reveal your source.

Well we are continuing our recycled printed pens theme this week with a new look at recycled plastic pencils.

Our product range is now so big that we have many very important product ranges that distributors never get to exploit their full potential. Have a look at our 126 page catalogue, page 100 or look on this website for our range of recycled plastic pencils that look and behave like wooden pencils.

These are full length pencils that come with an eraser and can be sharpened. The graphite core is HB hardness and we can print up to 3 colours on the barrel in close registration.

Hot Tip

Why not create an emailshot and mail out to 100 of your eco conscious customers and we guarantee that you will generate interest in this exciting promotional item.