2019
Do you want to know how the pencils are made?… by Faber Castell
This Faber-Castell promo video is probably one of the most interesting I’ve seen lately. And it has everything: precision machinery, raw material with which pencils are made and epic music that accompanies the production processes shown.
The video includes three “chapters” or manufacturing phases: mines, pencils (wood) and exterior stamping. You can see how are the raw materials (graphite, clay), the wooden molds in which the mines are placed and pressed and how they dry in the various phases and then the stamping is applied … in addition to the meticulous sharpening, which is already tasty per se.
The video has a great production and videography, although I do not know if they have many factories or only the one seen in the images or the rest will be more robotized and will have less vintage touches.
They say that can produce 2.3 billion pencils a year and being in the business for over 257 years, Faber-Castell has a sound know-how of how quality pencils are made.
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