Pen Production Meets 20% of Domestic Demand

Around 500 million pens are consumed in Iran annually, of which only 100 million are locally manufactured, the head of Stationery and Engineering Equipment Union said.

"About 400 million pens, accounting for 80% of domestic demand, are annually imported mostly from Germany and China," Mousa Farzanian was also quoted as saying by the Persian daily Shahrvand.