ADEL KALEMCILIK TICARET VE SANAYI A.S., founded in 1969, is a partnership between Anadolu Group -one of the largest business conglomerates of Turkey and Faber-Castell AG from Germany -a worldwide renowned writing instruments company.Around 27.7% of ADEL shares are traded publicly at Istanbul Stock Exchange.

ADEL markets its products as well as some imported products in Turkey through a strong and efficient distribution network and is overall market leader in its product range. ADEL offers high quality products at reasonable prices either under the "ADEL" brand or private label. Today, ADEL exports its products to more than 50 countries worldwide. ADEL, specialized in wood-cased pencils, also manufactures pencil slats at its Giresun plant in Turkey.

ADEL emphasizes quality as well as safety in its products. All products of ADEL that are classified as toys comply with EN-71 standards, and all other products are also safe for human health.

Since 1999, ADEL has been holding ISO 9001:2000 / EN ISO 9001:2000 Certificate, for its Istanbul plant.In 2009, Adel received the latest version EN ISO 9001:2008 certificate issued by TUV NORD.

With respect to the lately enacted REACH (Registration,Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) regulation within European Union, ADEL has already completed pre-registration via appointing REACH Global Services SA (RGS) as the "Only Representative" to comply with the REACH regulation.

ADEL is the pioneer and leader of the Turkish writing instruments industry producing wood-cased blacklead pencils, colour pencils, copying pencils, ballpoint pens, fibre pens, oil pastels, wax crayons, finger paints, modeling clay, gouache paints, watercolours, erasers, liquid ink pens, mechanical pencils and fine leads.