manaomea pencils. Revolution was never so fine.

We want to overcome the gap in our world
We live in a globalized world, nevertheless there is a gap between the cultures. We have hundreds of chinese products in our homes and still never talked to a Chinese. Preconception and conflicts develop through distance. Only by merging different cultures and competences, we develop the strength to overcome the gap.

With products, speaking for “the other side”.
We collude with “the others” and develop products that… Mehr anzeigen

You like meaningful products, sustainable and all the same beautiful?
Awesome. Same here.

You love analogue handcraft and fierce haptics?
Our pencils are a sign for the craftsmanship: they are robust and uncoated so you can feel the material in the surface.

You would like a pencil, whose lead is not breaking once it hits the floor?
Take one of ours. Thanks to our pultrusion technology (that’s what it is ;) ), the lead and the material are so compressed that… Mehr anzeigen

Because our products help to overcome the gap. And how exactly do we do that? Easy: We turn around the world of the big multinationals in the textile area.
The textile world may have the biggest gap of all. In Germany alone 100.000 tons of clothing ends up in landfills. At the same time, the big companies produce vast numbers of new clothing – in countries far far away from here, mostly without love for nature and human. With our material, we can turn this… Mehr anzeigen

For now, we produce our first pencils at a self-made production line near Stuttgart. We developed the necessary special devices and machines by ourselves, but use the environment of a cooperation institute. To start with a bigger pencil productions, we need to build our first very own production line here in Germany.

60.000 Euro – funding-threshold:
60.000 Euro enable us to produce for 3 more month in rent near Stuttgart. We start of with a pre-series of “Th… Mehr anzeigen

We are scientists from aerospace, designer and development workers. Uli and Tine add up over 25 years of experience in biopolymers and plastics technology. From their work at the German Aerospace Center also originates the idea, to stir up the pencil world with new materials.

Tine
Civil: Dr. Christine Arlt
Nerd- factor: Postdoc Materialscientist
Social-factor: “Young leader for sustainability“ by the Collective Leadership Institutes e.V., together with WWF and… Mehr anzeigen