DPChallenge: A Digital Photography Contest You are not logged in. (log in or register) 
 

DPChallenge Forums >> Individual Photograph Discussion >> there were only be two pencil factories in the USA
Pages:  
Showing posts 26 - 39 of 39, (reverse)
AuthorThread
 06/11/2007 11:01:52 AM · #26
Originally posted by GeneralE:

So these Mongols really are foreign invaders?!


Factory Location:

AMALGAMATED SPECIALTIES CORPORATION
Km. 21 South Super Highway, Muntinlupa City,
Metro Manila, Philippines 1771
 06/11/2007 11:16:30 AM · #27
Maybe more than I needed to know -- great work! Thanks.
 06/11/2007 11:23:24 AM · #28
Ha...sorry...one of the industry categories I was certified to audit in back when I did audits as a consultant and was free to and very happily traveled most of the time.
 06/11/2007 11:35:10 AM · #29
An auditor specializing in pencil manufacturers -- isn't there a potential conflict of interest there? ;-)
 06/11/2007 11:40:34 AM · #30
Originally posted by GeneralE:
An auditor specializing in pencil manufacturers -- isn't there a potential conflict of interest there? ;-)


Nah... everybody knows you're not supposed to fill out your taxes in pencil. :p
 06/11/2007 11:43:43 AM · #31
Originally posted by nards656:
Didn't he invent baking soda, too?

Hammer had nothing to do with the founding of that company but, if I recall correctly, later either purchased or invested in it temporarily because of the connection with his name.

Armand Hammer made his main fortune in the oil business founding Occidental Petroleum after he had "retired".
 06/11/2007 12:08:31 PM · #32
Originally posted by CEJ:
I am not so sure your facts are correct in stating only 2 pencil companies in USA. I believe the correct fact is "Among US pencil manufacturers just two companyĆ¢€™s with production history pre-dating 1920 still trace current ownership to descendants of company founders."

US Pencil manufacturers:
Dixon Ticonderoga

General Pencil

Musgrave Pencil

California Cedar Products

Newell - acquired three top U.S. pencil and art goods companies: Sanford Corporation, Faber-Castell Corporation, and Empire-Berol Corporation. All three were integrated into Newell's Sanford division, which also includes the art materials brand M. Grumbacher.

Binney & Smith of Easton, Pennsylvania, the maker of Crayola crayons and a subsidiary of Hallmark Cards

There are also many more that are listed more as cosmetics pencil manufacturers even though they manufacturer general purpose pencils as well as well as specialty pencil manufacturers for specific working environments. There is also an Indian tribe - Blackfeet if I remember correctly from the box they come in - that manufactures an excellent pencil.


that is very interesting. I got my facts from a full page article that the local newspaper ran a while back. I kept it, maybe I can dig it out and see what it had to say.
 06/11/2007 02:07:28 PM · #33
great - now ticonderoga will start burning even more tires for fuel...;{

to bad about the fire though.


06/11/2007 03:47:23 PM · #34
Originally posted by soup:
great - now ticonderoga will start burning even more tires for fuel...;{

to bad about the fire though.


Ha! I know exactly what you are talking about. However, this manufacturer is not the same as the paper mill. Dixon acquired Ticonderoga, New York-based American Graphite Company in like 1873. The pencil came a few years later I believe.

Message edited by author 2007-06-11 19:52:17.
 06/11/2007 03:57:00 PM · #35
Hey, who made Trusy pencils? Remember those? You could bend them (somewhat) and they didn't break!!!

And what about those huge, fat pencils we learned to write with (than no longer exist). They had that almost candy apple burgundy on the outside and the erasers were either green or pink. They had one that was almost midnight blue, too. (Ok, so I'm old!)
 06/11/2007 03:57:33 PM · #36
Originally posted by GeneralE:
An auditor specializing in pencil manufacturers -- isn't there a potential conflict of interest there? ;-)


No, not specializing in pencil manufacturers...specializing in certain types of manufacturing operations and processes. Pencils just happen to fall into one of the code categories...also power generation and distribution, electronic manufacturing, bio-medical research and engineering, pharmaceuticals, aircraft engine/gas-steam turbine manufacturing, and many others. Those were most of my business. I also had two paper mills and one plant that manufactured colored artist pencils as one of their products.
 06/11/2007 04:04:13 PM · #37
Originally posted by bergiekat:

And what about those huge, fat pencils we learned to write with (than no longer exist). They had that almost candy apple burgundy on the outside and the erasers were either green or pink. They had one that was almost midnight blue, too. (Ok, so I'm old!)


You can still get them. I bought some recently for my 5 yo because he complained that regular pencils hurt his hand.
 06/11/2007 04:10:54 PM · #38
Originally posted by karmat:
Originally posted by bergiekat:

And what about those huge, fat pencils we learned to write with (than no longer exist). They had that almost candy apple burgundy on the outside and the erasers were either green or pink. They had one that was almost midnight blue, too. (Ok, so I'm old!)


You can still get them. I bought some recently for my 5 yo because he complained that regular pencils hurt his hand.


In TX (snotty little kids) have to get mechanical pencils and all kinds of crap. I always thought those Jumbo pencils were so cool and they do serve a purpose, but I've not seen a school kid with one in years!! Your son is lucky. But do they look cool or are they just like all the pencils now with pictures and stuff all over them. Ours were like clasic cars, lol!
 06/11/2007 04:13:31 PM · #39
One of his was red and the other was blue, I think. Finding a sharpener for them, not that was a bear.
Pages:  
Current Server Time: 04/06/2025 10:23:29 PM

Please log in or register to post to the forums.


Home - Challenges - Community - League - Photos - Cameras - Lenses - Learn - Help - Terms of Use - Privacy - Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2025 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 04/06/2025 10:23:29 PM EDT.