Hexagonal body
Defined faces can improve desk stability and provide a familiar writing format for many classroom programs.
Product route
Bulk school pencils for importers, distributors, and procurement programs.
Plan graphite pencils for school supply and distributor programs. Specify the grade, barrel, eraser, pack count, destination requirements and required delivery window.
- Finished pencils: 100 cartons per style; 2,880 pencils per carton
- Mixed orders: more than 300 cartons total, at least 50 cartons per style
- 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
Shape comparison
Round vs hexagonal pencils for school programs.
Hexagonal pencils resist rolling and provide defined grip faces, while round pencils offer a smooth, familiar body. Neither shape is universally better; select by student age, use, sharpener fit, pack format, price target, and an approved sample.
Round body
A smooth body can suit selected school, promotional, jumbo, or early-learning routes when the diameter and use are specified.
Check compatibility
Confirm diameter, length, sharpener fit, ferrule or eraser construction, core centering, and packaging before approval.
Match the channel
Tender, distributor, and retail programs may prioritize different user needs, pack counts, labeling, testing, and price levels.
Product selection
Built for export buyers who need clear specifications.
For school-supply distributors, importers, wholesalers, and procurement teams planning large production orders.
Common specifications
- Finished pencils: 100 cartons per style; 2,880 pencils per carton
- Program route: graphite, eraser, color, or mixed school range
- Pack route: bulk, box, set, carton, or market-specific retail format
- Options: barrel color, logo, eraser, dip end, and private label
- Tender, testing, inspection, and document requirements confirmed before order
Application routes
- Classroom and student supply
- School procurement and tender programs
- Distributor school ranges
- Value-driven retail packs
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
- Student age group and pencil use
- Graphite or color specification and eraser route
- Unit count, retail pack, and master carton
- Tender documents, testing, inspection, quantity, and destination
OEM, ODM & private label
Your specification, from pencil to packaging.
Send an existing specification for OEM production, or discuss an existing construction and packaging format for an ODM brief. Confirm each requirement in one written order record.
Pencil & performance
Choose graphite or color, barrel shape, core requirements and the writing or coloring reference.
Finish & branding
Define barrel color, surface finish, logo position, dipped ends, ferrule and eraser where required.
Set & retail pack
Specify the color assortment, set count, box or tube, artwork, labels, inner packing and carton marks.
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Define the brief
Product or reference, planned quantity and destination. Add packaging, testing and delivery requirements as the specification develops.
- 02
Approve the sample
Confirm the product, artwork and pack. 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.
- 04
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
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. Sample terms, testing, certificate scope and the exact schedule are agreed for your order.
Factory, lead times & order documents
Factory and order information
School Pencils: direct factory purchasing facts.
Use this company-provided operating information together with the product-specific specification below. School Pencils pricing, retail packaging, testing, and the exact schedule remain controlled by the approved quotation. 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.
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
Finished pencils: 100 cartons per style; 2,880 pencils per carton · OEM and ODM
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.
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
Check our public supplier profiles
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.
Product and catalog references
Review the available range before approving the order-specific sample.
These product, catalog and exhibition records provide additional context. The final construction, finish, artwork, packaging, testing and inspection requirements are confirmed in the approved sample and written order specification.
Exhibition product-range reference
An exhibition record of the product range. Request current product photographs and an order-specific sample for the pencil you select.
Mixed barrel-color route
Mixed barrel colors can support classroom, reward, retail, or distributor ranges when the assortment and packing plan are defined.
Natural school pencil option
Natural bodies can be compared with painted pencils by grade, shape, printing, sharpening, eraser, packing, and destination requirements.
School, color, blank, and wholesale routes
The current range reference helps tender and distributor buyers separate product types before preparing the RFQ and sample checks.
Connected 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.
School pencil tender specification and bid workbookDownload the editable tender, carton, compliance, bid-comparison, completeness, and release-control workbook.
School pencil tender specification guideTurn broad tender language into measurable product, pack, inspection, document, and destination requirements.
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FAQ
Questions buyers ask before quoting.
What is the minimum order for finished pencils?
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.
Can school pencils be supplied for tenders and distributor programs?
Yes. The product, pack count, carton, inspection criteria, documents, and destination requirements should be supplied before the factory confirms the route.
Can yellow, natural, eraser, and colored school pencils be combined?
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. State the cartons for each style, construction, packaging, and testing requirement in the buying brief.
Are round or hexagonal pencils better for school programs?
Neither shape is universally better. Hexagonal pencils resist rolling and offer defined grip faces, while round pencils provide a smooth body. Match the shape to student age, use, sharpener fit, pack format, price target, and an approved sample.
Can Shanhai manufacture yellow HB school pencils with erasers?
Yes. Yellow HB school pencils with erasers can be discussed by graphite performance, body shape, sharpening, ferrule and eraser construction, barrel finish, logo, pack count, testing, inspection, quantity, and destination.
Can I mix styles in a production order?
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. Send the carton quantity for each style and the total order quantity. Mixing styles in an order does not automatically mean mixing styles inside each carton; packing is agreed separately.
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.
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Related routes
Other supply routes from the same factory.
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.
Custom Promotional PencilsCustom pencils for promotional distributors and bulk corporate orders. Specify the barrel finish, printed logo and packaging, then send artwork, cartons by style, destination and the required arrival date.
Product-specific inquiry
Quote School Pencils without leaving this page.
Provide your product, destination, company, planned quantity and unit, and email or WhatsApp. For finished pencils, enter the cartons for each style. Materials and unfinished pencil quantities are reviewed separately. Artwork, packaging details and files can be added now or discussed with sales.
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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