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The team at Wired went behind the scenes at the Crayola factory to find out how crayons were created.
The factory produces up to 12 million sticks of colored crayons every day—paraffin wax gets steam-heated, and filtered through barrels where technicians will add in powdered pigments and additives. It is then passed onto a rotary mold for 110 crayons to get labels and sorted according to its color.
Watch video to see the fascinating process of crayons being made.
The team at Wired went behind the scenes at the Crayola factory to find out how crayons were created.
The factory produces up to 12 million sticks of colored crayons every day—paraffin wax gets steam-heated, and filtered through barrels where technicians will add in powdered pigments and additives. It is then passed onto a rotary mold for 110 crayons to get labels and sorted according to its color.
Watch video to see the fascinating process of crayons being made.