How It’s Made: Rubber Balls
An evening pause: Not surprisingly, much of the process is automated and illustrates some very sophisticated engineering that we all take for granted. However, I was astonished that the stripes are still hand-painted on.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
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Mr. Z.:
I disagree with your statement. No, a large part of the process is not very much automated. There is still a lot of manual work that is harmful to health. I can well imagine how it stinks there in the factory, because I once worked in such rubber factory like that when I was a teenager.
By the way, the prices for basketballs are very different, as we can see in this example (see link). But I assume that most of it is produced in the same Asian company Proyuan (Vietnamese or China?).
https://www.amazon.com/basketballs-basketball-courts/b?ie=UTF8&node=3396751
I’d like one without the covering. Looks like a spider planet :)