Take A Look Inside The Awesomely Colourful Crayola Factory

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1/22 Photographer Bryan Derballa took these stunning pictures inside the Crayola factory. Here, crayons are separated and funnelled into boxes
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2/22 A rotary table moulds coloured paraffin into wax crayons at the factory in Easton. Excess wax is caught by a scraper blade and recycled
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3/22 A mixing kettle full of paraffin and orange powdered pigment is stirred up before being moulded into crayons at the Crayola factory in Easton
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4/22 Anthony Breton, who works in general utility at the factory, adds orange pigment to paraffin to make crayons at the Pennsylvania factory
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5/22 Orange crayons file through the mould table to the labeller
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6/22 Labels wrap around orange crayons
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7/22 Once labels are attached, completed crayons are separated by funnels, which help sort them into 24 count boxes to be sold
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8/22 A mixing kettle full of paraffin and cerise pigment is stirred up
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9/22 The paraffin is moulded into cerise crayons by the rotary table
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10/22 As the paraffin is turned into wax crayons, the excess is caught by a scraper blade and recycled to make more crayons later on
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11/22 Cerise crayons roll down a moving belt from the rotary mould table to the labeller
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12/22 Early steps involve mixing uncoloured paraffin with powder pigment
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13/22 Formed crayons are labelled before being sorted
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14/22 The world-famous factory makes around 12million crayons a day
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16/22 Photographer Bryan Derballa, right, said: 'I loved the kettles where the pigment is mixed - they were these beautiful vats of molten colour'
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17/22 A packing wheel contains all the colours used in a 24 pack of crayons
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18/22 A box of 24 pack crayons waiting to be sealed
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19/22 Starting from a silo of paraffin, finished boxes of unpackaged crayons wait on the packing room floor
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20/22 Completed packs of crayons move down a conveyor belt to be boxed and shipped.
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21/22 A blend processor, climbs a train car to help siphon paraffin from the car into the silos.
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22/22 Crayola, founded in 1885, claims to have 99% name recognition across US households - and even the factory hallway is a riot of colour.
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