Commodity examination of the mechanical pencils

Goal. The development of a procedure for conducting a commodity examination of mechanical pencils. Methodology. For the examination of mechanical pencils, there were used the organoleptic, instrumental and expert methods. Results. An analysis of export-import operations of mechanical pencils shows that Ukraine is doing their re-export: in 2019-2020, most of these goods were sent to such CIS countries as the Russian Federation (59, 6 and 64, 3%, according to the years), the Republic of Moldova (18 3 and 18, 6%), Belarus (11, 9 and 7, 1%). All research products came mainly from China (74, 5% in 2019 and 60, 2% in 2020). In 2019, mechanical pencils also came from Japan (10, 9%), Germany (5,0), Switzerland (3,2), Slovakia (1,8) and the Czech Republic (1,5%). In 2020, Japan and Germany also supplied more of them (18,3 and 10,4% conformably).The procedure for conducting a commodity examination of mechanical pencils included such stages as determining of the goal, choosing the criteria, determining the means and choosing the methods. The objects of the commodity examination were five samples of mechanical pencils of the most common trademarks: sample no. 1 is mechanical pencil of the PILOT trademark; sample no. 2 - mechanical pencil of the BRAUBERG trademark; sample no. 3 - mechanical pencil of the BIC trademark; sample no. 4 - mechanical pencil ERICH KRAUSE; sample no. 5 - mechanical pencil FABER CASTELL. In accordance with the tasks, the following indicators were explored: organoleptic (outward appearance) and mechanical (the effort of holding the rod by the pencil mechanism against shear; efforts to hold the rod by the pencil mechanism from falling out; the extension of the rod under its own weight; the amount of feed of the writing rod, the absence of a gap between the metal holder and cover; bending strength, quality of glue joints of body parts; fixed resource of pencil and holder). All investigated quality indicators of mechanical pencil samples comply with the established standards. Scientific novelty. A procedure has been developed for conducting a commodity examination of mechanical pencils. The practical significance of the research results lies in the development of criteria, means and methods of commodity examination of mechanical pencils that can be used in the work of enterprises

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