BooN THoNG STaTioNeRY

12.12.12

Boon Thong Stationery

Mr. Chen - The Owner of B.T. Stationery

Kedai Buku Boon Thong commonly known is been in the town for more than 40 years which initially started as a text book supplier as the major business in their early days. Days were tough at the beginning, but after years, the business managers to create own pathway. After decades, Kedai Buku Boon Thong is now supplying all sorts of stationery or customers may request for it, or even custom made such like Copper Sealer, or rubber hot-stamping, all this can be done at Boon Thong. Boon Thong is now involving in Business to Business (B2B), Business to Consumer (B2C) and Business to Government (B2G). Hence, in other words, Kedai Buku Boon Thong can be said as the One Stop Centre for all stationery you need.

11.12.12

Hot Selling (Top 5)

26.12.11

World's Tallest Pencil : Faber-Castell Malaysia

Founded in 1761.

Faber-Castell has established itself to be the leading producer of high quality writing, drawing and coloring products in the world. With nearly 250 years of invaluable experiences, Faber-Castell intends to stay committed in providing only the best to their customers.

15.12.11

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13.11.11

The Pencil Grades

Do you know what is the number on the pencil means?

The earliest pencils were made simply from filing a wood shaft with raw graphite. The hardness of the graphite would differ depending on the quality of the graphite, thus it was different depending on where the pencil was made.
The current style of making pencils was developed in 1974 by Nicolas-Jacques Conte (1755-1895). Conte, a painter, chemist, physicist, balloonist, and inventor, put into practice a new method of making pencils so that they would be much more functional.
Conte's first pencils were numbered for varies degrees of hardness. As the Conte process made its way into the world, other pencil makers decided to use the same technique.
To further complicate things, English pencils decided to use letters instead of numbers. Soft leads were labelled "B" for black and harder leads with "H" for hard. For varing grades they would just add more letters, thus very soft was "BB", very hard was "HH", and extra hard was "HHH".
Later they switched again to a combination of numbers and letters! Where you would see 2B, 9H, etc. Although more complicated, this system allowed for a much wider variety of grades to be made with no more than a two character description.
This was the last major change in the English grading system, the same we use today.