Pencils Raining from the Castle Tower

Extraordinary quality test proves break resistance of Faber-Castell pencils: To prove the break resistance of the classic dark green CASTELL pencils, the head of the company, Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell, invited the press to the courtyard of the Faber-Castell Castle in Stein near Nuremberg, climbed up the 25 m high castle tower and threw several handfuls of pencils down at the feet of the baffled journalists.

Armed with knives and pencil sharpeners, the ladies and gentlemen of the press then satisfied themselves that none of the leads were broken - every single pencil had "survived" the fall intact. This was thanks to the Secural Process ("SV"), an elastic bonding between the wooden casing and the lead, invented by Faber-Castell and patented in the 1960s. This technique is still considered to be a milestone in the industry.

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