Paintball is now played around the world. The process of making paintballs is actually quite similar to the process used to make certain medical pills. In fact, paintballs were previously often made...

PAINT BALL
Most paintballs were manufactured by pharmaceutical companies that already used the
encapsulating equipment for the pellets in other items, such as vitamins and bath beads.
These companies were making over three billion paintballs a year by the end of 1999. As
the sport and the industry grew, many specialized manufacturers of paint pellets and other
equipment sprang up, and these merged and consolidated in the 1990s. Industry leaders
included the Brass Eagle Company and ZAP Paintballs, Inc.
A. Steps used to manufacture Paint balls:
1. Making the paint:
The paint for paintballs is a specialized product because it is both water
soluble and biodegradable, and has been developed for optimum characteristics in the
encapsulating process. Typically, the paint is made at a specialty paint facility, then shipped
to the encapsulating plant. A very large manufacturer may combine the two operations.
2. Encapsulation
Encapsulating the paint is done with specialized equipment. When the game of paintball
was first getting started, manufacturing was done at pharmaceutical companies, which
already had the equipment in place. As the industry evolved, paintball manufacturers
furnished their own factories. The large machines cost millions of dollars. At a large facility,
making paintballs is done as a continuous process,...