Pacon Blog

We had the pleasure of exhibiting at You can MAKE it in Northeast Wisconsin, a career expo focused on the manufacturing industry. The event was sponsored by NEW Manufacturing Alliance and hosted in Greenville, Wisconsin.

Several local manufacturers gathered to share career opportunities and engage with 7^th-grade students from both Greenville and Hortonville, Wisconsin. Students chose who they wanted to meet with prior to the event and visited the manufacturers in assigned groups. It was great to teach the kids more about Pacon, and learn the career paths they were starting to think about.

Pacon offers many styles of composition books to meet a wide range of needs, grade levels, and uses. Composition books typically feature a sewn or taped binding that securely holds the sheets together. Without a spiral binding, the books can be stacked together on desks or in backpacks without getting tangled. Read on to learn about our most unique composition books.

Our graphics department has been hard at work putting together the 2018 catalog, and in August we shared the history of our catalog covers. If you recall, we alluded that this year we're giving our Graphics Manager, Steve, a break from crafting a creative sun. So who was in charge this year?

Meet Samantha.

Samantha was a very creative intern who helped the marketing team out with several projects, including this year's catalog cover! 

Read on to learn more about Samantha and get a sneak peek at this year's sun.

Our Mind Sparks™ line of learning games provides a fun way to engage children and help teach math concepts, foreign languages and sentence structures. Mind Sparks offers a variety of card games, foam blocks and dry erase games that make Learning & Fun ALL IN ONE!™

As we prepare our product catalog for 2018, we are taking time to reflect on the past 20 years of catalog covers all created by our Graphics Manager, Steve. Since 1997 he has been tasked with turning our sun logo into a three-dimensional piece of art for our catalog cover and he has never let us down.

Read on to get to know Steve and take a look at his catalog art collection.

Fall will be here before you know it, and you'll be welcoming new students to your class. Have you started prepping your room yet? Here are some tips and ideas to spark your imagination.

Fadeless® Paper is great for on any bulletin board display, but can be used on other spaces too! Depending on the surface, it can be stapled, taped or tacked in place.  

See our behind-the-scene photos from our elementary school photoshoot, featuring our new Mind Sparks® products, Fadeless® Paper and Riverside® Construction Paper. The children were great to work with, and were excited to play games and create projects for us. 

Today we celebrated 10 years since acquiring the Riverside Paper Company. This acquisition brought Pacon a wealth of resources, including employees, brands and history.

This year, we launched our Art1st® Gold Frame Watercolor Paper in collaboration with Fresh Artists. A portion of the proceeds from every purchase of this paper goes back to Fresh Artists.

This student-grade paper works well with any wet media. It features a placard to easily display the artist’s name. The gold frame instantly turns any work of art into a finished masterpiece!