Pencil wood slats
A retained material photograph, shown at its original level of detail. Species, dimensions, moisture and treatment are specified for each order.
Specifications & inquiry →Product route
Pencil slats manufacturer for poplar and linden boards.
Poplar and linden pencil slats for factories that groove and assemble pencils in-house. Compare 184 × 71 mm boards in 5 mm or 6.3 mm thickness, then confirm tolerances, treatment and a machining sample.
- Order quantities and packing for pencil slats, boards, and unfinished pencil bodies are agreed separately by specification.
- Sample planning: 10–15 days after the specification and required inputs are complete
- Production planning: 25–45 days after approvals and commercial release; exact timing is quoted
MATERIAL & SAMPLE RECORDS
See the stage your business needs.
Company samples and retained material photographs. Use the product pages to define the current specification, packing and sample requirements.
Pencil wood specification
Choose pencil slats for your production line.
Start with the wood species and board dimensions, then check how the slat behaves on your own grooving and shaping equipment. Slats, grooved boards and bonded sandwich boards are different buying stages.
Poplar or linden wood
Specify the species rather than ordering generic pencil wood. Compare an approved sample for cutting, grooving, shaping and the finish required by your pencil design.
184 × 71 mm boards
Common references are 184 × 71 × 5 mm and 184 × 71 × 6.3 mm. State length, width and thickness separately; your quotation must also specify the dimensional tolerances.
Treatment and moisture
Request softening, waxing, carbonization or staining only as needed for your process. Agree moisture at acceptance, the measurement method and the sample result before approving supply.
Materials order quantity
The finished-pencil MOQ of 100 cartons does not apply to slats. Send the number of boards or your required unit, packing, destination and intended pencil construction for a separate quotation.
Product selection
Built for export buyers who need clear specifications.
For downstream pencil factories and importers, including European buyers, sourcing measurable wooden pencil raw materials for repeat production.
Common specifications
- Order quantities and packing for pencil slats, boards, and unfinished pencil bodies are agreed separately by specification.
- Common size: 184 x 71 x 5 mm or 6.3 mm
- Material routes: poplar and linden
- Treatment requirements: softening, waxing, carbonization or staining, subject to the quoted process and approved sample
- Custom board size can be quoted by order requirement
- Moisture, treatment, tolerance, packing, and acceptance criteria are confirmed by order
Application routes
- Graphite pencil production
- Color pencil production
- Downstream pencil factories
- Bulk raw material programs
- European downstream pencil manufacturing
Factory proof
- Pencil manufacturing and quality control handled by the Sansi production operation
- Direct factory production for pencil slats, sandwich boards, blank pencils, and OEM/ODM wooden pencils
- Luoyang factory with Yiwu showroom support
- Approximately 500 people across the coordinated production and export operation
- Typical sample planning range of 10–15 days and mass-production planning range of 25–45 days
- Ask us to confirm current FSC certificate details and scope for your quoted order
- Product programs for overseas stationery brands, distributors, and wholesalers
What changes the quotation
- Wood species and accepted material grade
- Board dimensions, thickness, moisture, and treatment route
- Order quantity, packing method, and loading plan
- Destination, inspection criteria, documents, and delivery term
Prepare for downstream production
Agree the handover specification.
Define the wood species, dimensions, tolerances, moisture acceptance and the operations your factory will perform. Agree the supplied stage, quantity unit and packing in one written material specification.
Material & dimensions
Specify wood species, board dimensions, tolerances and the process your factory will complete next.
Production stage
Choose cut slats, grooved slats or core-filled sandwich boards. Confirm groove geometry and core requirements where applicable.
Incoming inspection
Agree moisture, treatment, straightness, bonding and packing checks relevant to your downstream process.
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Define the brief
Product or reference, planned quantity and destination. Add packaging, testing and delivery requirements as the specification develops.
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Approve the sample
Confirm the slat specification, machining trial and packing. Typical sample planning is 10–15 days after the required inputs are complete; exact terms are quoted.
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Check the production order
Agree material, process, appearance, count and packing checks. Typical production planning is 25–45 days after approvals and commercial release.
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Coordinate the shipment
Yiwu Shanhai handles order documents, customs coordination, shipment follow-up and after-sales communication. Exact responsibilities follow the order terms.
Confirm before production
Order quantities and packing for pencil slats, boards, and unfinished pencil bodies are agreed separately by specification. Sample terms, testing, certificate scope and the exact schedule are agreed for your order.
Factory, lead times & order documents
Factory and order information
Pencil Slats: direct factory purchasing facts.
Use this company-provided operating information together with the product-specific specification below. Pencil Slats pricing, retail packaging, testing, and the exact schedule remain controlled by the approved quotation. Order quantities and packing for pencil slats, boards, and unfinished pencil bodies are agreed separately by specification.
Factory or trading company?
Factory manufacturer
Shanhai is one family-owned pencil business operated through two registered entities. Yiwu Shanhai Import and Export Co., Ltd. is the exclusive international sales and customer-facing company, handling buyer communication, quotations, contracting, invoicing, customs coordination, shipment follow-up, and after-sales service. Yiyang County Sansi Pencil Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is the dedicated production factory, responsible for pencil manufacturing and quality control only.
MOQ and customization
Order quantities and packing for pencil slats, boards, and unfinished pencil bodies are agreed separately by specification. · OEM and ODM
Order quantities and packing for pencil slats, boards, and unfinished pencil bodies are agreed separately by specification.
OEM follows the buyer-approved product, artwork, and packaging specification. ODM adapts existing constructions, finishes, set formats, and packaging routes to the buyer's market brief.
Sample planning
10–15 days
The 10–15 day sample range starts after the product style, specification, artwork, packaging requirement, quantity, and target market are clear. The exact sample type, cost, freight, approval points, and start date are confirmed in the quotation.
Mass-production planning
25–45 days
The 25–45 day production range is planned after the order-specific specification, sample or reference, artwork, packaging, quantity, inspection requirements, and commercial release trigger are approved. The formal quotation controls the exact schedule.
FSC and testing route
FSC documentation on request · EN 71-3 and REACH
Ask us to identify the certificate holder, current validity, product scope and the permitted claim for the quoted order before approval. EN 71-3 and REACH are handled as product, intended-user, destination, and order-specific testing or compliance requirements. They are not presented as standalone company certifications.
Quality control
QC-controlled production
The order record defines relevant material, dimensions, treatment, core placement, bonding, shaping, sharpening, finish, logo, components, count, packaging, carton marks, inspection evidence, and release authority.
Operating scale
Approximately 500 people · Approximately RMB 70 million average annual export sales
Company-provided operating-scale figure. It is disclosed as a business scale indicator, not as an individual buyer case, audited revenue statement, order guarantee, or future-performance promise.
Details that help us quote
- Product style, model, or reference
- Order quantity
- Target country or destination market
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Public marketplace citations
Match this supply route to live Yiwu Shanhai marketplace records.
These public third-party listings corroborate the product range and supplier identity. They are marketplace citations, not independent endorsements or fixed commercial offers.
Detailed specification checklist for your quotation
Quote-ready specification
Match these eight inputs before comparing pencil slat prices.
A unit price is only comparable when every supplier is quoting the same wood route, dimensions, moisture and treatment basis, processing stage, end use, packing, inspection, destination, and commercial term.
Decision
Shanhai supply scope
Buyer input needed
Wood route
Poplar or linden, quoted with the agreed grade or approved reference.
Required species, grade indicators, visible-defect limits, grain and straightness expectations.
Board dimensions
Common reference 184 x 71 x 5 mm or 6.3 mm; custom sizes can be reviewed.
Length, width, thickness, accepted tolerance, drawing, or equipment reference.
Moisture and treatment
Order-specific conditioning, softening, waxing, carbonization, or protection route when required.
Target, measurement or acceptance method, storage conditions, and required treatment.
Processing stage
Raw slats, pre-grooved slats, or core-filled sandwich pencil boards.
Whether the buyer will groove and press, needs prepared grooves, or wants core-filled boards.
Downstream use
Graphite or colored pencil production, followed by blank-body, finished, or OEM routes if required.
Pencil shape, graphite or color core route, groove and core diameter when applicable, and equipment constraints.
Packing and loading
Bundle, moisture-protection, pallet or non-pallet, marking, and container route confirmed by order.
Pieces per bundle, protection, pallet preference, marks, container plan, destination, and handling limits.
Inspection and release
Approved reference or measurable specification, agreed inspection points, and batch evidence before shipment.
Sampling basis, dimensional and visual criteria, moisture method, documents, and release authority.
Commercial basis
Trial and volume programs are reviewed against the same written specification and supply route.
Order quantity or annual volume, destination, trade term, required window, and target commercial basis.
Download the editable RFQ workbook
Free editable buyer tool
Download the pencil slat RFQ and QC workbook
Bilingual start guide, comparable slat RFQ, stage-aware QC plan, three-supplier quote comparison, and formula-driven submission and production-release gates. Download it directly without an email gate, complete the order-specific inputs, and attach the file to the factory inquiry.
Use the matching specification guide
Compare 184 x 71 x 5 mm and 6.3 mm pencil slat specifications. Download an editable RFQ/QC workbook for wood, moisture, tolerances, packing, and inspection.
Read the buyer guide before completing the workbookConnected sourcing routes
Continue with the product or market decision that matches the RFQ.
Choose the supply stage or application that matches your project to compare the relevant specifications and order requirements.
Poplar vs linden pencil slat comparisonCompare material identity, dimensions, moisture, machining, bonding, sharpening, yield, packing, and a controlled production trial.
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Pencil slat specification and RFQ workbookDownload the editable RFQ and QC workbook for dimensions, moisture, treatment, packing, trials, inspection, and release.
Pencil slats for Italy and European factoriesSeparate material-stage evidence, downstream processing, packing, destination, and European buyer document requests.
Order route
From quotation input to controlled production.
The exact sample, specification, inspection points, packaging, documents, delivery term, and schedule are recorded before the production batch is released.
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Send the wood species, dimensions, quantity, destination, and downstream use
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Confirm a reference sample or measurable acceptance specification
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Approve packing, inspection points, delivery schedule, and commercial term
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Release production and receive batch documentation before shipment
European procurement route
Quote the board specification before comparing the landed route.
For European and Netherlands buyers, the useful comparison is not a generic price per board. It is one matched specification covering wood species, dimensions, moisture, treatment, quantity, packing, inspection, destination, and delivery term.
Procurement inputs
- State whether the slats will be grooved, core-filled, or machined by the buyer
- Confirm destination country and port, including Rotterdam when applicable
- List the required tolerance, moisture, treatment, packing, and inspection evidence
- Compare the same specification, loading plan, commercial term, and delivery window
Continue the sourcing route
FAQ
Questions buyers ask before quoting.
What is a pencil slat?
A pencil slat is a thin, dimension-controlled wooden board used as the starting material for wooden pencil production. It is typically grooved for graphite or color cores, bonded to a matching slat, and then shaped into pencil bodies.
Can Shanhai supply custom pencil slat sizes?
Common references are 184 × 71 × 5 mm and 184 × 71 × 6.3 mm. Custom dimensions can be reviewed. Confirm the wood species, tolerances, treatment, moisture measurement, packing and machining sample with the quotation; dimensions alone do not define an accepted production specification.
What are the sample and production planning ranges for pencil slats?
Shanhai typically plans 10–15 days for a defined sample route and 25–45 days for mass production after the slat dimensions, wood, treatment, quantity, packing, destination, inspection requirements, approved reference, and commercial release inputs are complete. The formal quotation confirms the exact schedule.
Which wood materials are available?
Common material routes include poplar and linden wood, with treatment options depending on the product grade and market requirement.
Does Shanhai manufacture poplar pencil slats?
Yes. Shanhai manufactures poplar pencil slats for downstream pencil factories and confirms wood grade, dimensions, moisture, treatment, packing, and acceptance requirements by order.
Can pencil slats be quoted for European and Netherlands buyers?
Yes. European and Netherlands buyers can request a quotation by providing wood species, dimensions, moisture or treatment requirements, quantity, packing, destination port, delivery term, inspection criteria, and required order documents.
What should a downstream factory include in a pencil slat RFQ?
Include the wood species and grade, board dimensions and tolerances, moisture target, treatment route, downstream use, order quantity, packing and loading plan, destination, delivery term, and measurable acceptance criteria.
What moisture percentage and dimensional tolerance apply to pencil slats?
There is no single value that safely applies to every factory, climate, storage route, and downstream machine. The quotation should record the buyer's target, measurement method, accepted tolerance, storage conditions, and approved reference before production.
How should raw slats, grooved slats, and sandwich pencil boards be distinguished in an RFQ?
Raw slats leave grooving and core placement to the buyer. Grooved slats add the agreed groove count, geometry, spacing, and core diameter. Sandwich pencil boards add core placement and pressing. State the exact handoff stage so prices and inspection responsibilities remain comparable.
How are pencil slat packing and inspection requirements confirmed?
Confirm pieces per bundle, moisture protection, pallet or non-pallet handling, marks, loading plan, sampling basis, dimensional and visual checks, moisture method, documents, and release authority before the production batch is approved.
How should buyers compare pencil slat manufacturers?
Compare the same wood species and grade, dimensions and tolerance, moisture method, treatment, processing stage, quantity, packing, inspection, destination, delivery term, factory evidence, and critical documentation. The free supplier evaluation workbook keeps those points and commercial risks on one comparable basis.
Does the finished-pencil MOQ apply to this material stage?
Order quantities and packing for pencil slats, boards, and unfinished pencil bodies are agreed separately by specification. Provide the product stage, dimensions, material or core specification, quantity, packing, destination, and trial requirements for a material-specific quotation.
Can I request stained pencil slats?
Catalogue page 38 includes a stained wood-slat reference. Send the target color, wood species, dimensions, treatment requirements and intended downstream process. Current availability, color consistency, moisture, tolerances and trial samples are confirmed for the specific quotation; the catalogue image is not a stock guarantee.
Procurement guides & quality-control templates
Buyer tools
Prepare the specification before comparing quotations.
Use these practical guides to define quality, packaging, timing, and acceptance requirements for your order.
Download the pencil slat RFQ and QC workbook5 editable worksheets / Bilingual start guide, comparable slat RFQ, stage-aware QC plan, three-supplier quote comparison, and formula-driven submission and production-release gates.
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Factory handoff stage
Choose the processing stage your factory wants to receive.
Continue from raw slats to grooved boards, core-filled sandwich boards, unfinished pencil bodies, finished graphite or colored pencils, or a complete OEM/ODM program without mixing different production stages into one quotation.
Grooved Pencil SlatsShanhai supplies pre-grooved poplar and linden pencil slats from China, quoted by board size, groove geometry, core diameter, treatment, packing, and destination.
Sandwich Pencil BoardsSource semi-finished sandwich pencil boards from Shanhai, prepared for downstream wooden pencil production, blank pencil processing, and OEM routes.
Blank Graphite PencilsSource unpainted or buyer-prepared wooden graphite pencil blanks for downstream coating, printing, eraser assembly, sharpening, and packing.
Blank Colored PencilsSource buyer-defined colored pencil bodies before final barrel finishing, color identification, branding, set assembly, and retail packing.
Graphite PencilsSpecify the graphite grade, wooden barrel, finish, eraser and packaging for your distributor or private-label range. Agree the writing reference and inspection requirements before production.
Colored PencilsSource wooden colored pencils (colouring pencils) from China for school, art and private-label ranges. Confirm the color assortment, core requirements, retail pack and quantities by style before sampling.
OEM Wooden PencilsBuild a graphite or colored-pencil range with your approved finish, logo and packaging. Share the specification, planned cartons by style and destination.
Product-specific inquiry
Quote Pencil Slats without leaving this page.
Send the wood route, board dimensions and tolerance, moisture and treatment basis, processing stage, downstream use, quantity, packing, inspection requirements, destination, and delivery term. We will return a quotation against one comparable specification.
Finished pencils: 100 cartons per style, with 2,880 pencils per carton (288,000 pencils per style). For mixed orders totaling more than 300 cartons, the minimum is 50 cartons per style (144,000 pencils). An order totaling exactly 300 cartons does not qualify for this exception. Order quantities and packing for pencil slats, boards, and unfinished pencil bodies are agreed separately by specification.
Price: confirmed by quotation for the approved specification and destination.
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- Raw, grooved, or core-filled handoff stage
- Wood species, grade, dimensions, and tolerance
- Moisture, treatment, downstream use, and core fit when applicable
- Quantity, packing, inspection, destination, and delivery term