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Sakura Color Products Corporation
株式会社サクラクレパス
Type kabushiki gaisha Industry Stationery Founded 1921 [1] Headquarters Morinomiya-chuo, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan Area served Worldwide Key people Teiichi Nishimura
(President) [1]Products Art materials Revenue ¥ 90 million [1] Employees 1,200 [1] Subsidiaries Talens Japan (Osaka and Tokyo)
Shin Nihon Zokei (Tokyo)
Daishowa Printing (Osaka)
Royal-Talens B.V. (Netherlands)
Bruynzeel-Sakura B.V. (Netherlands)
Sakura Color Products of America, Inc. (US)
Shangai Sakura Stationery (Shanghai, China PR)Website www.craypas.com Sakura Color Products Corporation (株式会社サクラクレパス) is a Japanese company headquartered in Morinomiya-chuo, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan, which produces a variety of stationery items. Although the firm commercializes a wide range of products, Sakura is more known by its marker pens, such as the Micron lines.
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History
The company was initially founded as a crayons manufacturer in 1921. By 1925, Sakura invented the first-ever oil pastel that combined oil and pigment, which was patented globally as the "Cray-pas" trademark.
In 1982 the firm launched its famous "Pigma" marker pen lines.
In 1984 Sakura invented the first gel-based ink, featured in its new ballpoint pens lines. Gel ink pens are currently produced by many stationery companies nowadays.
The North-American division of the company, "Sakura Color Products of America, Inc." was established in Hayward, California in 1986. Other division of Sakura in Asia, "Shanghai Sakura International Trading Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 上海櫻花文化用品有限公司)" was established in Shanghai, China in 2002.
Products
Sakura of America booth at Maker Faire 2008
The following is a list with the large range of products commercialized by Sakura: [2]
Category Products Pens ballpoint pens, gel ink pens, refills Pencils Mechanical pencils, colored pencils Markers Water based and permanent marker pens, highlighters, brush pens Writing accessories Erasers, whiteboard erasers, glue pens Art materials Crayons, pastels, oil pastels, water colors, acrylic paints, gouaches,
oil paints, water-soluble printing colors, brushes, palettesArtists
Sakura "Pigma" markers have been widely used by a many comic book artists to ink their pages. Some of them are George Pérez and Ethan Van Sciver.
References
External links
- Sakura global website (English)
- Sakura Japan (Japanese)
- Sakura of America Corporation (US)
- Shangai Sakura International (China)
- Bruynzeel-Sakura B.V. (Netherlands)
Categories:- Companies established in 1921
- Companies based in Osaka Prefecture
- Companies of Japan
- Art materials brands
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