A Visit to One of the World's Largest Pencil Factories | The New York Times

A visit to the pencil-making factory of Faber-Castell in Stein, Germany, one of the world's largest makers of writing instruments.

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A Visit to One of the World's Largest Pencil Factories

[filippopanasenko]

Faber castell and Staedtler have become one of my favorite pencil brands! Best pencils made in Germany 🇩🇪 👍

[KhaledMaithalouni]

I love Faber Castell pencils, it is the best pencils brands I've tried in my whole life!

[Ausf.D.A.K.]

What a nice gentleman ! I love Faber-Castell !

[hamadalhussain]

The wood in their Classic 9000 Pencils range...smells musky and like heaven, it writes like a dream and the HB graphite tip has insane staying power and lasts very very long. So you really get what you pay for and more when you pay for those lovely emerald green 9000 pencils. Keep it up. I LOVE IT.

[gabriellaritaart]

My favorite brand in the world. I love all of their products. Even their kids supplies are amazing.

[worldranger]

i am from Saudi Arabia when i was a kid i used these pencils in my elementary school I was attracted to American made pencils cuz they look more decorative but in low quality, so i went back to faber castle again they were such adorable pencils

[hamadalhussain]

Faber Castell makes great pencils and so does Staedetler. Both are excellent, but the best pencil of Faber Castell would be better than the best of Staedetler. Also Faber Castell have a special passion for Pencils, and that is cool on its own.

[hadiputra]

I just buy the Castell 9000 and jeez it feels like i just bought a rolls-royce. 😂😂😂

[TheEndOfTheInternet]

Wow! I never thought about the invention of the mechanical pencil and how it must of had an impact on the pencil makers. And now email, smart phones and tablets.... They better get creative and look for new opportunities if they want to survive in the digital world.

[maple]

What a remarkable business, I had no idea that the first modern day pencil was made in the 17th century, having a pencil was indispensable in grade school ... for math!

[Melons-vgdq]

Peasants had to pay a dozen eggs for a single pencil for their school children.

[SIDHL]

Great report! From Amarillo, Texas!!  Thank you... :)

[StopFear]

They should make a pencil and call it Das Uber Bleistift. It will be the most popular pencil outside of Germany because of the word “uber” alone

[curtiscarpenter]

The more knowledge we gain the more we gain the more purpose we gain in need of learning new information.🥂

[Irisphotojournal]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.!

[poojasingh]

very good business how is cost this machine and where is manufacturing this machine

[PelczarTomasz]

My brain is around sentence let's International Papers ... Ok, let's International Papers, China and Eng. Guttenberg ... 

[das]

I prefer ticonderoga pencils. But faber castell are pretty nice. Pretty pretty nice.

[abrahambraun]

I wonder involvement his family one generation ago had in ww 2 and the atrocities committed against the Jews.

[jpolar]

It's a good pencil but it's very brittle.