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Kokuyo Camlin Ltd., formerly known as Camlin Ltd., is an Indian stationery company based in Mumbai, India. Kokuyo of Japan holds around 51% stake in Kokuyo Camlin. Camlin manufactures art materials, marker pens, fountain pens, inks, pencils, and other stationery products.
Camlin (CAMLIN) is a Mumbai-based producer of stationery and art materials. Incorporated on Dec. 24, 1946 as a private limited company, it was converted into a public limited company on Mar. 24, 1988. The company is a part of the Camlin group, which also consists of the demerged listed company Camlin Fine Chemicals, Camlin Pharma and several associate companies. The company offers a wide range of products such as artist materials, hobby colors, scholastic colors, scholastic stationery products, office products and writing instruments under the Camel and Camlin brands. It offers the Krafty range of glues, adhesives and scissors. The specialty ink division offers dye-based and pigment-based inks, ball pens, gel ink pens, deskjet ink, metamarks, rubber stamp ink, fountain pen ink, Bomark and Durmark inks. It is the market leader and household name in the art materials and stationery segment. Corporate gifts add value as presentation items. The manufacturing plants are located at Tarapur and Vasai in the Thane district, Taloja in Navi Mumbai and Jammu. Through its wide distribution network, the company caters to a vast consumer segment for their fine art, scholastic and office stationery needs. Major countries of export are USA, Thailand, Bahrain, Turkey, Algeria, UAE, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and CIS countries. The registered office is located at 9-B, Nanddeep Industrial Estate, J.B. Nagar, Andheri (E), Mumbai-400059.