SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — Inside one of the nation’s last surviving pencil manufacturers, Jason Glines heaved slats of wood imported from China through a cutting machine. He watched as blades ...

At Musgrave Pencil Company in Shelbyville, Tennessee, politics rarely came up before this year. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies have changed that.

And while pencil production in the U.S. has dwindled over the years as manufacturing shifts overseas, the demand for those imports from such countries as China, Mexico and India suggests a market ...

You may have noticed that a carpenter's pencil is very unusual, thanks to it's wide, flat design, but there a number of practical reasons for this.

Have you ever wondered how your everyday pencil is made? In this video, take a rare look inside the Faber-Castell factory, one of the world’s most iconic pencil manufacturers, to see how ...

Harvest pencils in a grader, a device used for quality checks and counting. Natosha Via And so it steadily goes at Musgrave Pencil Company, one of the few pencil manufacturers left in the United ...

For many manufacturing plants, the full-time equivalent (FTE) labor time it takes to fill in forms and then subsequently key them into Accounting/ERP systems or Excel spreadsheets typically ranges ...

Albrecht Dürer pencils get their name from the German Renaissance painter and are made by Germany’s oldest pencil-maker — one known for keeping its manufacturing practices and formulas ...

A ruling in a case about one of the simplest forms of technology could prove important for ensuring government accountability in the age of artificial intelligence.

Optical materials are essential in many modern applications, but controlling the way a material reflects light on its surface is costly and difficult. Now, in a recent study, researchers from ...