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This factory produces more than two million footballs a year. And right before the World Cup, demand excludes all across Sialkot, a city in Pakistan that makes about 70% of the world’s footballs. But only a small percentage of the roughly 1000 factories here are FIFA certified because they need to meet some of the toughest standards in sports manufacturing. For Bola GEMA, that means serious precision at every step. All the way from molding rubber to dying the sheets, cutting up the panels and finally stitching the ball, he had space. European or skills, Perfection, skill, skill, perfection, kilogram, proper volume and assertive. We went inside one of the largest factories that’s racing to meet global demand and cash in on football’s biggest moment. Melting rubber is the first step of producing footballs at Bola Gema. Yum Yum mixing machine that is beyond the RAM RAM material doll. Turkey farm if you didn’t. They cut the rubber sheets into the proper size and measure their thickness. After that they leave them in a temperature controlled room to set for 24 hours. Then the rubber is cut and shaped to form the bladder, which is the inner core of the ball. Workers inflate this and leave it in steam machines to solidify. One mystique here can ruin the entire ball because the bladder determines the shape, bounce, and overall performance. That’s why Muhammad Shakil Bhatt checks them at each step of the production process. Bladder team. Football team. Peak, AKA Football, name the bladders for professional grade balls, go through one more step. They’re wrapped in strips of fabric and tightly wound with nylon thread to lock in the shape and size. The external layer of the ball is produced in another part of the factory using massive machines that combine foam, fabric and synthetic polymers. The new material is dyed into different colors. The entire bonding process is called lamination, and it makes the shell of the ball waterproof and rugged. Lamination plant need just give us an e-mail Lamination material vendor Sabrina Patata ammunition plant in house Kanalia or go home in house produce study. Workers cut those sheets into the panels that will eventually form the balls. Some of the designs are added in an old school way through screen printing. Job number of colors digital printing job number of colors come with you know screen printing can move faster processing. Traditionally, footballs are made of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. Years ago, the factory would hand stitch them together. Let’s give us sticking VCR stitching other proper skilled 1 stitch career ball through balky roundness work with unskilled. Balcony. Poi c’�� il fanatico. So to scale up Bola Gema started using sewing machines. These days they produce at least three kinds of balls. First, there are these machine stitched entry level balls. They can make as many as 6000 a day. What time is the World Cup time over capacity? Ja met doorzetten vind ik kanker naar parket. Once the bladder is inserted, workers cinch it up by hand winding your body. It’s a local language. Then they’ve got the semi professional balls. Phone rings other small captain softness or stuff Bound Suski roundness Semi professional ball The highest quality professional grade balls are joined together using a different technique called thermal bonding and while it sounds complicated, the first few steps are all done simply by hand. First workers lined the edges of each panel with a super strong fabric glue. Beating them together is like a puzzle. They refer to a diagram and join them. Next, the shell is placed in this machine where the panels are bonded with the bladder using heat. This process has been used to make World Cup balls since 2006. Workers check the weight to make sure it meets the FIFA standard, a 410 to 445 grams. To keep things fair, all balls should weigh the same. If they’re too light, they could easily be pushed around by the wind. If they’re too heavy, they would be difficult for players to control and could even hurt them. That’s why Bola Gema has a lab where they run select samples through a series of performance tests. Samples of radio. Yeah. The machine shoots a football at about 50 kilometres an hour up to 2000 times to make sure it maintains its shape and stitching. The process is quality Cosa de caja agara poor quality there will be Can we skip? Hotel juana baik ke blender ban jaga. Like everybody’s mistake, Samaji and the factory can’t afford any mistakes because the next step is getting a four year license from FIFA. The initial cost for that is about $25,000. It includes advanced royalty fees paid to FIFA. But if Bola Gema sells more balls than expected, they have to pay an additional $2.00 per ball for the top quality models. Then there’s a long list of other hidden costs too, like joining the world. Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry. That’s around a $1900 annual fee. And buying mandatory insurance, that’s another $800 a year. Was small. Uh, damage with that heart? More to that of product liability insurance companies have to pay up to past million Swiss franc. Bologna also has to send samples for testing to one of FIFA’s labs in the UK, Germany or Switzerland, which costs them $3500. Have a ball, ball pass. You have what a WhatsApp there license number, license number on wall ugly ball. You have a FIFA license ball or golf clubs and soccer teams and federations. And with your ball biker thing you could clients be biker there. And to keep that license active, the factory needs to conduct an independent audit every year, which costs them around $10, 000. Still, that license can be revoked at any time if FIFA finds mistakes. They perform random quality checks. Unlicensed balls by picking them up at retail stores and testing them. Being certified doesn’t mean these balls are headed to the World Cup, but major brands and sponsors are now more likely to order from this factory. And that can transform the business. Bola gave ourselves more than a million extra balls during a World Cup year, and with around half of FIFA certified manufacturers located in sealcoat, the city is cashing in big time. The industry here dates back long before the World Cup. In the late 19th century, local artisans began making balls for British colonists, a skill rooted in Sialkot’s long history of leather craftsmanship. Maripaz the sausal Ki Jo industry have wolves grow career, move, improve career in terms of quality, in terms of materials into skills you have, I mean generation to generation, transfer Orient. Today, roughly 80% of the city’s population works in football production, but the sport isn’t very popular in Pakistan, even among folks who work at Bola Gema. You have mail. Uh, was created. Well, 99% purchase cricket, badminton. Will be forgotten. Well, those tickets are doing and. Badminton, Even badminton rackets are made in Sialkot, which is considered the sporting goods capital of the world. After the finishing touches, workers deflate the balls and pack them. None of their stock is sold in Pakistan. It’s exported across Europe, the Middle East and the US, where tariffs have made it hard to do business. Sports wallpaper 19% pay karna Yeah feel unnecessary necessity item you just give for extra from terrace. To American market and both of both affect volumes down, sales down, yeah. The factory sells the lowest quality mini balls at a wholesale price of about $2.00 each, while the highest quality FIFA licensed balls go for around $25.