Garland Industries

What products are listed for this advertiser?

Made in America Grip Pens, Made in America Key Chains, American Made Key Taps, American Made Lapel Pins, Made in America Logo Pens, Made in America Pencils, Made in America Pens , Made in the USA Rollerball Pens, and Made in the USA Writing Instruments.

Garland Writing Instruments is located in an historic mill along the Pawtuxet River in Coventry RI. All of our USA-made products are designed and manufactured in our 45,000 square-ft facility. Garland's automated facility was designed to efficiently process custom orders both large and small. Our Writing Instruments provide a combination of high-quality materials and craftsmanship along with the ability for each customer to design their unique look and marketing message through our customization processes. This provides an excellent value in today's cost conscious environment. Contact a promotional products distributor in your area for product details, pricing and delivery information.

Made in the USA Writing Instrument Collections
Garland's USA-made writing instruments are easily recognized by the flared top design, the carefully-weighted balance, and the styling. All writing instruments in the Colour, Revere, Monogram, Tuscany, Signature and Founder's Collections continue to be custom designed, engineered and manufactured in the USA by Garland. The flared top design is a registered trademark of Garland Writing Instruments and remains a subtle, yet distinctive way to identify a Garland writing instrument in today's promotional product marketplace.

Writing instruments in our standard hefty series' are approximately .363 (9.22mm) in diameter whereas items in the traditional slim series' are .292 (7.42mm) in diameter. Rollerballs from these USA collections are the same diameter as the hefty series' pens.

Garland?, Pen-O-Rama?, Garlux?, Universal?, Solid Twist?, Twist-O-Matic?, Chrome Crown?, Ebony Crown?, Gold Crown?, Twin-O-Matic? and Photo Top Accessories? are registered trademarks of Garland Writing Instruments

Items pictured with corporate logos or registered trademarks are shown nly to illustrate Garland's Garlux? photo process and our other customization options. Products bearing corporate logos or registered trademarks can only be purchased by the organization or corporation to which the logo or trademark belongs or if that corporation or organization has approved its use for reproduction.

Garland Writing Instruments, formerly Lew Manufacturing Co., was founded in 1927 by Louis Lanoie. The company got its start by manufacturing small presses that led to the design and development of the internal pen mechanism later used by many of the major pen and pencil manufacturers throughout the United States and Europe. In the 60's, Lew Manufacturing started making complete pens and pencils and changed its name to Garland Industries. Garland became a charter member of the ASI (Advertising Specialty Institute) in 1965. Garland is proud of its many notable accomplishments and is one of the original designers and patent holders for the twist action pen mechanism. Garland products have flown on both the Apollo moon missions and many of the Space Shuttle missions. In 1969 Garland developed the Photo Top pen to provide exceptional promotional value. The Flare Top design and the Photo Top Pen are registered Trademarks of the Becker Manufacturing Company and has become a unique signature of our writing instruments. The Becker Manufacturing Company purchased Garland Writing Instruments in May of 2013 and continues the tradition of manufacturing a high quality product in the USA with an emphasis on using local suppliers and community involvement.

The following is a reply from Garland Industries to our question – "Are your products American Made?"

How do you know the products you have listed are Made in the USA?
Before including products in our database we review the advertiser’s website and/or contact them to ascertain the origin of their products. Some advertisers sell both Made in USA products and foreign ones. Therefore we highly recommend you review FAQ 2.

We immediately investigate any complaints regarding deceptive Country of Origin claims. If we determine an advertiser's claim is not truthful we will immediately remove the product/s from our database and suspend our relationship with the Company making the claim.

To document your complaint, email us by using our Contact Us page. We can only respond to complaints that have been submitted in writing.

What does Made in USA mean?
There is no law requiring most products to be labeled Made In USA, or have any other disclosure about the amount of U.S. content. However, for job creation purposes (see our Big Secret tab), if you have a choice between an imported product and one with no country of origin on its label, choose the product without a country of origin over the imported one. This is true because the product without the country origin on its label has at least some American labor in its content and the imported one most likely does not.

Note: Imported products are required by law to country of origin on their label and products partially Made In USA do not. To answer this question completely reviewing our Labeling Tips 1, 2 & 3. These tips are accessible from scrolling to the bottom of our home page clicking Browse All Tips button.