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  • Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories

    01/15/2018 6:23:58 AM PST · by Daffynition · 57 replies
    NYT ^ | Jan 12, 2018 | SAM ANDERSON
    [snip] Such radical simplicity is surprisingly complicated to produce. 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.