Toot your horn a bit: Molding 50,000 vuvuzelas a month

Vuvuzela—it's not a word you likely heard before the World Cup began, and we'll wager it fades from memory soon after the champion is crowned. But for now, if you're watching soccer, then you know the word and you definitely know the sound vuvuzelas make—like a horde of bees swooping through the stadiums.

So, who is making all of those horns? There is not just a single processor benefitting from the craze, but in fact quite a few were able to cash in on the demand. According to South African trade publication SA Plastics, the world's largest processor of these horns is Miller Methods, a South African injection molder. Read the article on the company here.

Another company benefitting from the vuvuzela craze is featured in this 1:46-long video. It's in German, from the website of German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, but if you listen closely you can hear the molder talk in english about the project. His company, based in Capetown, has been molding upwards of 50,000 of the horns each month.

Beautiful plastics processing for the beautiful game.