Editing Ohto

{{Infobox company
| name = OHTO CO., LTD.
| logo = [[File:Ohto_Logo.png|220px]]
| type = 
| founded   = [[Established::1929]]
| founder = Nakata Tozaburo<ref>[https://www.cultpens.com/news/q/date/2014/10/27/meet-the-brand-ohto Cult Pens Ohto page]</ref>
| headquarters = [[Headquartered in::Kuramae, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan]]<ref>[http://www.ohto.jpn.org/index.php?main_page=page_2 Ohto company profile]</ref>
| key_people = 
| num_employees =
| revenue = 
| products = Writing instruments, ink
| industry = Writing instruments
| website = http://www.ohto.jpn.org
}}
'''OHTO''' CO., LTD. (オート株式会社）is a Japanese pen manufacturing company selling the OHTO brand. The company was established in 1929 as a manufacturer of [[dyes]] and [[ink]]. In 1949, the company became a pen manufacturer after they manufactured the world's first ball point pen with a chrome ball. This was also Japan's first ballpoint pen.
 
Since then, the company have introduced writing instruments such as the [[rollerball pen]], ceramic rollerball pen, single blocked strong needle tip, and needle tipped soft ink rollerball pen, ceramic refill (C-300 series), soft ink rollerball pen, free ink rollerball pen, and Promecha drafting pencil.

==History of OHTO==
* 1929: Established in Tokyo, Japan, as a manufacturer of dyes and ink
* 1949: Manufactured the world's first pencil-shaped ballpoint pen with chrome ball. This was also the first "Made in Japan" ball point pen.					
* 1960: Developed a non-smudging ballpoint pen ink with resistance to fading.
* 1963: Manufactured the world's first water-based ball point pen (present-day [[Rollerball]]).
* 1963: Manufactured ballpoint pens with tungsten carbide balls using polymide resin, first in the world.
* 1977: Introduced the rubber grippered pen, first in the world.
* 1981: Introduced world's first ceramic ball roller pen.
* 1991: Developed pigment ink waterproof/fadeproof roller pens. 			
* 2000: Introduced single blocked strong needle tip, first in the world.
* 2006: Started using ceramic ball in gel pen, to give longer shelf life to gel pens, named CERA-GEL technology.

== Notes and references ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.ohto.jpn.org/ OHTO CO., LTD.]

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