While the 1950s saw more than 20 pencil manufacturing plants, several like Dixon Ticonderoga, which closed its Jersey City, New Jersey, plant in 1999, no longer have plants in the United States. In ...

There are times in my life when I think back to my earliest years, those elusive memories that we sometimes call our very first. I recall a woman that was very kind and gentle and most understanding.

Not everything is made in China, after all. One family-owned business has built a long history in the Jersey City Heights, as the General Pencil Company celebrated 130 years of manufacturing pencils ...

The announcement by the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, that Nigeria will begin manufacturing pencils is a welcome indication of the nation’s return to the benefits of ...