14 Facts About Lamy

Josef Lamy, who was a sales representative for Parker Pen in Germany, founded the business in 1930 by purchasing the Orthos pen manufacturer.

Lamy was a pioneer in the use of moulded synthetic plastics to make their products.

Lamy hoped to expand that export share to 50 percent of turnover, which stood at approximately 40 million Deutschmark for 1985.

Turnover for Lamy increased to 48 million DM for 1987, then employing 350 people, increasing to 54 million DM in 1988 and a corresponding increase in staff to nearly 400.

In that year, Lamy established contacts with East Germany and planned to do business there as well as in West Germany.

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Lamy invested in their "innovation workshop" in Heidelberg, in 1996, along with approximate expected turnover being 113 million DM.

Lamy Safari was designed by Wolfgang Fabianand Bernt Spiegel of the Entwicklungsgruppe Mannheimwhich remains in production from 1980.

In 2016, Lamy released a more expensive variant of their AL-star line called the LX that comes in five colors all named after precious metals, with the exception of the Marron special edition.

Lamy produces multisystem pens, which combine a ballpoint and another feature within the one pen, such as the Pickup, which integrates a ballpoint and a highlighter into one body.

Some other Lamy designs exist in mechanical pencil form, such as the 2000 and the Safari.

Lamy Scribble has a plastic matte black barrel that ensures a convenient grip.

Lamy produces fountain pen ink in bottles and proprietary ink cartridges.

Lamy provide the widest range of colours in what it designates as T10 cartridges, with black, blue, blue-black, red, green, turquoise and violet.

Lamy makes double-ended pens that allow one to edit what they have written in ink before.