There is a large production of wooden pencils in India. It would be very interesting to get to know more about how this industry developed in India. Does anyone know about articles related to Indian wooden pencil industry?
Hi Kjartan,
Please see the article below:
https://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1951_3/17/manufacture_of_pencils_in_india.pdf
Regards
Martin
If you are ever over in the UK we have a pencil museum in Cumbria:
https://www.derwentart.com/en-gb
There's also a pen museum near to where I live:
https://penmuseum.org.uk/
Please have a look at the following link.
https://www.nature.com/articles/157851a0.pdf
Arvind Singh Thank you! I am amazed with the amount of pencils being produced in Indian. Hindustan Pencils claim a staggering 8 million pencils a day. This is a mind blowing 2.920.000.000 pencils a year only for this one company alone. As both your suggested articles point out, pencil manufacturing in India did not really pick up speed before after WWII. Martin McKie
Arvind Singh Martin McKie Faber-Castell claims to be the largest pencil producer in the world, but as far as I can see their 2.3 billion pencils a year clearly falls short of Hindustan Pencils 2.9 billion pencils a year. This is one of many cases that indicate that Indian pencils and their production and industry development is not well known. Pencils are an artifact that have gotten my attention. It would be wonderful to know more about the "Indian pencil story". Henry Petroski and his elegant book "The Pencil" tells the story about British, German, French, Russian, Japanese and American pencil production and development, but I miss more insight into the Indian perspective.
Wooden pencil or lead pencil is an essential item for students and artists. Generally, HB and 2B pencils have popularity in the Indian market. Even in the recent era of computers, printers, tablets, cell phones and a whole host of other writing and drawing instruments, pencil industry is growing.
Certainly, it’s a very competitive industry. With an increasing focus on cost and the quality of the average products, entrepreneurs must come up with the quality product. Here in this article, we intend to explore how to start a wooden pencil manufacturing project on a small and medium scale basis.
Also you can find the links below:
https://nextwhatbusiness.com/wooden-pencil-manufacturing-business/
https://www.faber-castell.com/corporate/history/production
It was during the First World War that India became for the first time closed to many of the imports which she had enjoyed with her progress during the nineteenth century. Wooden pencils were one of those imports. Since that period, and as a result, a search for pencil woods was undertaken and has been continued throughout the country.
Yehya A. Salih Thank you. Does this mean there are many small producers of pencils in India. If so, then this suprises me. Pencil production is quite a complex process for a small business.
HI every one
Kjartan Skogly Kversøy you can see this attach below...good luck.
www.madehow.com › Volume 1
https://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1951_3/.../manufacture_of_pencils_in_india.pdf
https://www.thebetterindia.com/66506/newspaper-pencils-vikash-khandelwal/
Conte also discovered that a harder or softer writing core could be produced by varying the proportion of clay and graphite—the more graphite, the blacker and softer the pencil. ... He later invented a machine to cut and groove the pencil wood.
Most pencils are made of cedar wood. Cedar can be found by the Great Lakes. 2.Pencil lead is made from a form of carbon called graphite.
At the Pencil Factory a “Groover machine” cuts grooves into the slats to accept the writing core (or “lead”). Writing cores – made from a mixture of graphite and clay – are placed into the grooves. Coloring pencils may use wax-based cores while many other formulations are used in cosmetic pencils.
Not only wooden pencil, in my state Manipur one entrepreneur is making pencils by using waste paper(old newspaper) and putting a small seed of different plants inside the roll of each pencil.
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