For the first time in history, China has produced its own ballpoint pen

For China, this is a "tremendous progress" when it is possible to produce ballpoint pen for the first time. You do not misread because even though they produce up to 40 billion pens annually, 80% of them are exported to the world but all the balls at the pen end must be imported from Switzerland or Japan, . There is simply no qualified company in China to create the precise metalworking machine to create small balls at the tip of the pen.

And it wasn't until five years ago that a Chinese company called Taiyuan realized that the country was not capable of creating many basic, simple things. Since then, they have begun to study and until now, the country's only genuine ballpoint pens have been successfully produced. Judging from a major newspaper in the world, China is a factory of the world, making countless smartphones, electronic devices and even spacecraft, but in fact, it cannot produce such a small thing. ballpoint pen.

The reason is that before they did not have enough qualifications to produce quality steel for precision machining at the tip of the pen. All are imported from Switzerland or Germany and Japan. Last year alone, they spent $ 17 million just to import ballpoint pens from Japan. In fact, the type of steel that makes the ballpoint pen must meet the conditions that are easy to cut but not easy to crack. The problem lies in the process of processing, mixing and machining so that the final product is the marbles that can move continuously over a total distance of 800 meters in the life of the pen. Of course, this is a trade secret kept by the pen firms.