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TQL Logistics Assignment
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Applicant: Mitchell Coyle
Logistics Assignment
No. 2 Pencils
Clay
The lead for most pencils is created by mixing graphite powder with clay and than it is baked.
Clay
Graphite Powder
The largest known graphite deposit is in Alaska. There it is mined and has plenty of transportation needs to get to a pencil factory.
Graphite Powder
Clay
The clay used is typically two types that are widely produced in the state Georgia.
Clay
Wood
Wood is produced in much of North America with a large amount of cedarwood from California being used by the company, Staedler.
Logging
Glue
Glue Factory
Lead is made into thin rods in the same factory where the wood is cut into slats which leaves the glue, used to adhere two slats on a lead rod, to be transported in.
Glue
Glue needs to be transported from a seperate factory that produces glue using collagen from animal by-products.
Glue
Lacquer
Lacquer
Once cut into seperate pencils from the slats, pencils can be lacquered, painted or stamped with a company name. Each having logistical needs to get to a pencil making factory.
Eraser
Far from the Point
The final touch is usually an eraser. Eraser factories mix their rubber with many ingredients like pigments and oils and then ectrude them after the heating process.
So many oppurtunities for TQL to meet transportation needs in the production of an annual 14 billion pencils.