Our Story
BIRMINGHAM PEN COMPANY
A tiny American ink & pen manufacturer.
Total full-time employees: 2
Average cups coffee consumed per day: 6
Our first workshop was in Pittsburgh's Southside.
We started along the Monongahela River in the Terminal Warehouse, a gigantic brick and cement building opened in 1906 and once considered the largest warehouse between Chicago & New York City. In the early days of Westinghouse, part of the 3rd and 4th floors were used for cold storage operations (pictured above with blocked-over windows.) The top floor was used to store munitions during World War 2. After the War, the boiler from a decommissioned U.S. Navy ship was installed into the Power Plant building for heat which operates to this day.
Pittsburgh's Southside was once called “Little Birmingham” due to the area’s prolific manufacturing industry in the early 1900s. This Birmingham moniker was derived from Birmingham, UK - a manufacturing hub that specialized in, among other things, pen and nib manufacturing with thousands of craftspeople employed in the industry. We chose the name Birmingham Pen Company to share this little-known piece of history and continue the traditions behind the name.
Pictured is a building mural in Pittsburgh's Southside, paying tribute to the region's old moniker.
We're a tiny Pennsylvania based manufacturer.
Today our workshop is in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh. We're producing a steady stream of exceptional fountain pen inks that receive overwhelmingly positive feedback from the community. Fountain pens are machined in small batches with limited availability.
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