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The old and new Noris together After being able to observe the shift from the traditional, wood-cased Noris to the new upcycled wood Noris in the UK last year (see The new, upcycled Noris) I was able to experience the same transition in Germany now. What I saw is, of course, only a small snapshot of the two countries as I observed the transition in a city in North West England last year and now…

Now that the Noris is ‘upcycled’, i.e. Wopex based, the question is whether Staedtler’s other pencils will also be made from ‘upcycled wood’. In the last blog post’s comments Kevin wondered if the Tradition will get the ‘upcycled wood’ treatment, too. Well, I now have an answer to this question: The Tradition is currently also made from upcycled wood. In the UK it is common for kids who visit a…

A few weeks ago Gunther told a few pencil friends, including me, that Staedtler’s Noris is now made from upcycled wood. Upcycled Wood is the material formerly known as Wopex. These pencils are extruded and use a wood-plastic composite instead of wood. Wood-plastic composites where invented in the 1960s in Italy, but they are not commonly used for pencils. I assume that no other manufacturer…

Wonderful World of Wopex – The Neon Line

Welcome to a new series of blog posts about Staedtler’s Wopex pencils. The idea is to collect information about Wopex pencils while details are still available. By now several bloggers, including me, had to find out that stationery manufacturers don’t always store information about their products and in my opinion it would be a shame to lose the existing knowledge about these products. Wopex ->…

The name Wopex is now being used for the material, not for the pencils, so for now I refer to the Noris eco etc as pencils with Wopex material.