How to handle used containers

Tombow does not provide the recovery system for used products. Therefore, based on the Container Packaging Recycling Act, the re-commercialization consignment fee is covered. Please follow the regulat...

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How to store marking pens

There is time limitation of storage of marking pens. However, you can extend the use period by paying attention to the followings: For ink-based marking pens, put the pens horizontally to keep an app...

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What to do when stained with water-based marking pens

In the case of skin Stains remove gradually. Please wash the skin with soap immediately. Stains may not disappear immediately, but will disappear gradually by bathing, etc. In the case of paper So...

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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy In compliance with the Act on the Protection of Personal Information and related laws and regulations, Tombow Pencil Co., Ltd. (hereinafter the "Company" or "we") has established the...

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Community Guideline

Community Guideline Tombow Pencil Co., Ltd. Social Media Official Account Community Guidelines (hereinafter referred to as the Guidelines) specify regulations of the use of the official accounts on...

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Site Policy

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Asia

Company Info About Tombow Company Profile Message from CEO Company History Domestic Sales Offices Subsidiaries/Agencies Production Bases Environment...

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Company History

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Mother’s Day ♪ a picture-like card

Hello! It is "the child" of the Tombow web Staff ♪ This weekend is Mother's Day. How about the original card which I added a lot of time to convey a daily thanks to mother? (^^) This time, I will in...

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Tape winding mechanism

Because the tape is pulled while transferring it to the paper, the tape reel rotates. Then, the rotation force turns the slack reel through the gear, and it is possible to wind up the transcribed tape...

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Tips for how to use

I can use it well when I understand the principle of transcription. The trick is to apply uniform pressure to the tape width and to ensure that the angle is not blurred. If you put your thumb on the t...

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Plastic Plastic Eraser material (polyvinyl chloride resin)

It can be said that there is no problem especially because it is possible to incinerate it properly if it burns the PVC (P.V.C = polyvinyl chloride) and it is a country with advanced incineration faci...

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Ingredients and how to make liquid glues

The powder of polyvinyl alcohol and synthetic resin is mixed with water, and made by dissolving at high temperature. Because mold grows as it is, the preservative with high safety is small amount, and...

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A good use of glue stick

Please do not put too much out. It is a knack that the glues comes out, but does not exceed 2 ~ 3mm at all times. Please be aware that if you are too far away, you will be prone to a glues collapse, o...

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Why the glues ?

glues is bonded to paper by chemical action and mechanical action, and glues itself becomes a hardened and sturdy film, and paper and paper are combined. The chemical action is the hydroxyl group (-OH...

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History of oily ballpoint pen

Development as a practical thing is the beginning to have been conceived in Hungary in 1943. In fact, the history of ballpoint pen is only sixty years. In 1944 the following year, the Eversharp Compan...

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How to fit the ball

It is a very small ball, and it is very strange why it is turning well without falling below. To make a chip, a thin wire-shaped metal is cut in a cylindrical shape, the end is truncated to a conical ...

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Why fluorescent ink looks fluorescent

As can be seen from being a highlighter when expressed in English, it is possible to show the color more vividly by converting the light by sunlight and illumination to the wavelength of a certain lig...

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The marking pen is a Writing of the pressure “zero”

Unlike ballpoint pen and the like, the marking uses a capillary phenomenon, and the pen tip is also responsible for its function, so you hardly need pressure when writing. Because the core is relative...

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Writing distance

The writing distance varies depending on the type, but it is said that the longest writing is about 1000m in a fine pen and about 100 to 150 m of the highlighter when becoming short. The pen tip and t...

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About liquid-type ink Induction

The liquid type is often thought that the ink is only coming out as it is unlike the batting type, but the relay core is still necessary. The ink stored in the bellows is guided sequentially to the co...

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About ink Induction (capillary phenomenon)

The ink of the marking is drawn out by using the principle that the ink is pulls to the narrow one of the gap even if power is not added from the outside. A rough flow is the form of batting (relay co...

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Why pencils are used in elementary schools

In the Ministry of Education, we are promoting the transcription of hard general writing to 3 from small to medium, so that we can "write Japanese easily, clearly and efficiently." In order to do this...

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What do you mean by the thickness of a pencil?

In JIS, the reflectance when written under certain conditions is defined as 0.30 ~ 0.47 in HB, otherwise it is good if the upper and lower degree is not reversed respectively BASED on HB. It is said t...

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Clay used for the core of a pencil

Pencils use Germany clay. Although the clay can be taken Japan, there is plasticity suitable for the molding of the pencil core, the crystallization proceeds at a relatively low temperature, the physi...

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Graphite used for the core of a pencil

Graphite (graphite graphite) is also known as a stone ink and is naturally produced as a companion of Diamond and Coal (allotrope). Unlike the same fellow coal, it has a layered structure and is slipp...

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Is there a lead in the pencil?

Lead is not included. The core is made of graphite and clay. Graphite is made of carbon and is a fellow of coal and Diamond (allotrope). In addition, lead is not included in the paint of the surface....

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When you want to peel off the glue

The ingredients of the glus become soft when it is exposed to the steam of the hot water boiled in the kettle. Peel it slowly when it becomes soft....

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What to do when stained by water-based ink

In the case of skin Please wash it with soap immediately. It may not remove immediately, but it is washed repeatedly, and it remove gradually by bathing, etc. In the case of paper The ink penetrate...

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How to use the refill ink Kei Coat charger

■ How many time it can refill? One bottle of Kei Coat charger can refill around 10 times. However, considering the life of the marking pens allow them to be refiled 5 times while purchasing pens. ...

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What to do when the ink does not come out

■ Is there any ink left? The amount of ink can be seen from outside of the lead, but it may be difficult to see if the lead is made of metal. ■ Ink Life Ballpoint pens have a lifetime of four to ...

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