The diagram below shows how pencils are produced. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The flow chart illustrates the process of

pencils

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pencil

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production.

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, we can see clearly that it consists of eleven main steps. It begins with planting the trees, and ends with packing pencils before customers use them. To start, saplings need to wait four months to be replanted,

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after three years these shrubs grow up and

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thinned. When the trees are high enough in the next fourteen years, they are cut and transported to the factory to

manufacture

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be manufactured

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. All of the threes are sliced, become the thin

slats

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and

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treated.

Following

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this

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, these

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are

used

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apply

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glue

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in the groove and

put

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apply

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the black lead

in

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is put in

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there

,

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this

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step takes around sixty days. After that, the

slats

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turn

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into

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new shapes like sandwiches.

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, the new

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pass by hard-pressed to

heat

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be heated and

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then

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be

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apply

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cut into strips. In the final stage, these strips are painted, sharpened, stamped, and packed,

which

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apply

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in order to sell

for

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to

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customers in the shops.