Pencil Making Plant

Abstract

Pencils are indispensable for our daily lives. Other writing implements do not possess the pencil's unique characteristics of letting us erase and rewrite what we have written. Trial and error will help us grow as a human being. We trust that pencils will always have their particular role in the future. 1,000 million pencils were produced in Japan in 1976, making the country the world's second largest producer after the United States. 10 percent of them was exported and the remaining 90 percent was consumed domestically. This means that the annual consumption of pencils was nine pieces a person (900 million of pencils/100 million of population) in Japan.