Since 1889, the General Pencil Company has been converting huge quantities of raw materials (wax, paint, cedar...
Since 1889, the General Pencil Company has been converting huge quantities of raw materials (wax, paint, cedar planks, graphite) into products you can find, neatly boxed and labeled, in art and office-supply stores across the nation: watercolor pencils, editing pencils, sticks of charcoal, pastel chalks. Even as other factories have chased higher profit margins overseas, General Pencil has stayed put, cranking out thousands upon thousands of writing instruments in the middle of Jersey City.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html?smid=go-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html?smid=go-share
I buy and use their pencils. These are as good, or better, than any others I have gotten, but they really do cost lees than most all of them.
ReplyDeleteReally interesting story and fantastic photos of the process! Love seeing inside this factory. Thanks, Margaret!
ReplyDeleteI also have many of their pencils. They're great.
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