Pencils

Abstract

Pencils play an important role in nearly everybody's daily life. The main factors that influence the demand for pencils, are the degree of literacy attained, number of schools, colleges, the period of schooling, development of business etc. When educational and economic activities are growing steadily, the demand for pencils has a great potential for growth, too. The setting up of a pencil manufacturing unit will have the dual advantage of meeting the country's requirements of pencils indigeneously as well as providing employment opportunities to local labour. The main components of wood-cased pencils, generally known as graphite pencils or colour pencils, are soft fine porous wood and leads in 18 degrees of hardness and various colours.