When looking at eco-friendly promotional items  FSC wooden pencils are often overlooked because it is a very niche product…yet they are one of the most environmentally friendly promotional products because they are made from sustainable sources and biodegradable.

The Pen Warehouse has FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) accreditation and consequently we can prove chain of custody from forest sources through every stage in the manufacturing  process. Annual audits are strictly enforced by FSC to ensure we comply with regulations and we can provide full certification for all our FSC promotional products.

Next time your customer asks for advice on the correct choice of eco friendly promotional products why not consider pencils made from FSC wood. They tick all the right boxes!

It is a little known fact that Printed Carpenters Pencils are a very popular promotional item. We noticed that there has been an increasing interest in them since we launched our full colour printing service on either of the flat sides. The print area is almost the length of the pencil so the advertising potential is massive.

We have recently launched and FSC carpenters pencil made from sustainable wood. These promotional pencils are fantasic quality and are a perfect solution for those promotions that consider the environment.

Since making our earlier posts about Robotic pens we have had many enquiries asking if they can be printed in full colour for bulk pens orders. The answer is ‘yes’ but only with a small print area. Just send us your artwork and we will tell you what we can do.  The limiting factor with this range of great promotional pens is its curved teardrop print area. However, line printing is possible over a very large area using either screen printing or pad-printing.

Watch the Robotic Pens animation.

The recession seems to have affected the amount of bulk pen orders floating about at the moment. As the public sector makes severe cutbacks we have noticed a trend towards smaller orders over the last six months for promotional pens in general. Oddball products that would be considered gimmicky in design such as robotic pens seem to be holding their own with the more expensive pens proving to be less favourable. We do not see that trend changing significantly over the coming months but take heart from the fact that printed pens are less affected than other promotional items because of their low cost.

You can now place bulk pen orders for robotic pens, The Transformer Pen and The Reflex Pen. They are the perfect promotional pens because of their gimmick appeal.

Robotic pens are the latest craze as advertisers look for eye-catching media to gain an advantage in a very crowded promotions market.

The reflex pen is available in silver and the transformer pen is available in white. Both can be printed in 4 colours and operate on a sprung loaded mechanism. These sprung-loaded pens spring into action at the touch of a button. We can deliver within 5 working days using an overnight carrier. Call us now or browse the website for our latest range of printed business gifts.

The Transformer Pen is for that special advertising application where you want something different for your target audience. With its large print area and unique action it is the perfect promotional item for the souvenir market because of its gadget appeal.

Watch the animation to see its unique action and we are sure that as a trade customer you will see its potential as the next hot promotional product. Just call us today should you require more information.

When it comes to promotional pens with a difference, they don’t come any more unique than the Transformer Pen. With its sprung-loaded mechanism it jumps into life at the touch of a button as our animation clearly shows.

It’s one of the few robotic pens on the market that has appeal as both a souvenir item and a promotional product. It is equally at home as an exhibition giveaway or in a souvenir gift shop and is designed to be a great talking-point. It has particular appeal as a promotional item when the target audience is children because of its novelty value.

What could be better than to have your corporate message or branding on a pen that has a charm all of its own whilst at the same time gaining exposure for your company or product through the use of appropriate branding for this type of promotional pen.

It has a huge print area in a very prominent position and it can be printed in up to four matched colours so your corporate identity will not be compromised. Go on…try something different for your next promotional campaign; we know you will be delighted with the results.

The promotional pencil has proven to be a popular choice for businesses looking to communicate their corporate message on a budget. Historically the perception of the printed pencil has been one of inferiority when compared to the mighty printed pen. However, times have changed and with developments in multi colour printing for pencils the profile of this once inferior promotional item has now been elevated.

Businesses opting to use a promotional pencil for their corporate seminars, marketing campaign, promotional give-away or exhibition are likely to share some common attributes and goals. Evidently they are conscious of delivering results on a budget but most importantly they realise the branding potentials a printed pencil can offer that simply cannot be matched by a printed pen.

Using bespoke high speed printing lines with optical registration we are able to produce cost effective multi-colour imagery in up to three colours.

For your free Promotional Pencil samples simply give us a call today on 01252 400270.

Even during the tough economic environment of recent months it is apparent that “green-washing” is still high on the agenda for most businesses and organisations. This poses a dilemma in itself as expressing green credentials is often considered a costly exercise which is difficult to measure and therefore almost impossible to prove a return on investment.

With so many organisations looking for innovative ideas to communicate their green credentials there is opportunity for the suppliers of promotional printed pens to take up the challenge and make a contribution to sustainability as well as their bottom line.

Lecce Pen, who we have been working closely for a number of years, has recently unlocked a major innovation in the recycling of post-consumer Tetra Pak™ drinks cartons. The process involves separating the polyethylene and aluminium from the paper in used drinks cartons. The paper is sent for recycling and the remaining polyethylene and aluminium are then granulated through a complex process to produce an innovative raw material called EcoAllene™. This innovative material has almost identical properties to ABS plastic and best of all, it is derived from a post-consumer recycled product.

We invested time and money in considering how we could make this innovative material work for us in the promotions industry, a trade which is flooded by claims of supplying recycled products, yet very few declaring the use of post-consumer recycled materials. The launch of the Envirostick Ball Pen with the World’s First Recycled Refill is the fruit of our labour. 100% of the plastic components are recycled; the body of the pen is made from recycled polystyrene and the trim and refill from Ecoallene.

The Envirostick Ball Pen is a truly innovative promotional pen at an exceptionally affordable price point. It has proved to be immensely popular choice for businesses and organisations concerned with communicating a proactive approach to the sustainability of our planet.

To order your free samples call us today on 01252 400270.

With over sixty new promotional products released this year alone, The Pen Warehouse now has the most comprehensive range of promotional pens anywhere in Europe. You are almost spoilt for choice and naturally your attention will be drawn to the big-sellers and most popular designs that current fashion dictates.

Unfortunately, this means that some niche products are overshadowed and this is probably true of two new golf pencils released in this year’s ‘Pens Galore’ catalogue. We have added a new half pencil with eraser in a range of popular colours and after two year’s R&D we finally launched our revolutionary mini golf mechanical pencil; the Golf Pro Pencil^TM. This relatively inexpensive promotional pencil comes with a fully-functional retractable mechanism and inbuilt eraser. Golfers no longer need to worry about broken leads, just press the pushbutton and out comes fresh lead every time.

Printed pencils remain one of the most popular promotional items in the United Kingdom and Ireland and with our existing mini pencil without eraser bringing our total golf pencil range to three we believe that our distributors now have a one-stop shop – unequalled anywhere in Europe for not only printed golf pencils but printed promotional pencils in general. We will be explaining the benefits of our extended range of pencils with printing up to three colours in future articles. Just drop in to view these articles and keep abreast of developments at The Pen Warehouse; you will undoubtedly discover products that you never knew existed and it is a useful source of inspiration for your future promotional campaigns.