Writing Technology

Essem is a global leader in ballpoint and gel tip manufacturing.

Essem offers the highest quality of oil-based and gel tips to the world's best pen brands.

Precision-machined ballpoint and gel pen tips

Tailor-made pen tips fully customized to your needs.

Uncompromising attention to our manufacturing processes, inspection protocols, and customer service. Excellence and quality, guaranteed.

Product Range

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Gel Tips

Typically enable a wide variety of brilliant color shades and intensity.

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Oil-Based Ballpoint Tips

The most traditional and popular style of tip that has been in use for over 60 years.

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Oil-Based Gel Tips

Used with low-viscosity inks, resulting in a smooth and gel-like writing feel.

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Refills

Manufactured according to your specifications to suit a wide variety of inks and tips.

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Our tip production process.

Every step of our pre-, during-, and post-production is monitored and assessed. Quality is at the core of our offering.

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    Blanking

    Wire coils are cut into various lengths based on customer parameters.

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    Deburring & centrifuging

    Specially crafted deburring solutions remove burrs using cleaning solvents.

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    Machining

    Fully automated machining enables high-volume, precise production and fast reaction to customer needs.

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    Ultrasonic cleaning

    Parts are scrubbed with liquid solvent to rinse residue and loosen particulate matter.

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    Sorting & inspection

    Stringent quality control checks with 100% camera control deliver defect-free batches to our customers.

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    Packing & dispatch

    A variety of packing and shipping methods, tailored to your requirements.

Why work with Essem?

Because we strive to be the best, continuously. We work hard to keep our customers ahead of the curve and anticipate new technologies and adopt new processes as they emerge.

700+ unique varieties.

We offer over 700 unique varieties of ballpoint pen tips and make 100% of our production to order, customized to your parameters.

16M+ tips produced daily.

Four factories across Thailand and India, ISO 9001:2015 certified, using 100+ Swiss rotary transfer machines and raw materials imported from Japan and Germany.

Zero-defect camera verification.

Strict quality assessment at every production and dispatch step, with a variety of instruments used to guarantee quality to our customers.

Ready to work with a leading manufacturer?

Explore our dedicated writing technology website at essemtips.com.

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