Pouring the wax

A Crayola employee pours the heated wax onto the hole table.

Crayola does not allow the public--or the press, in most cases--to see its actual manufacturing facility. But at its visitors' center, the company offers its 300,000 annual visitors a demonstration of the process. And though the demonstration is done at a slower speed, it is representative of what happens in the real factory.

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