Vuvuzelas all around with AllroundersVuvuzelas all around with Allrounders

According to Arburg (Lossburg, Germany), injection molders in both South Africa and Germany have been using the company's Allrounder presses to produce the Vuvuzelas. For instance, South African processor Sandeplast has been manufacturing the instruments and supplying them to stadiums and fan shops from its South African base since 2001. Neil von Schalwyk's company in Cape Town produces the horns with six employees on nine injection molding machines; a film of his shop made it onto the news here.

Closer to Arburg's home is Allit AG (Bad Kreuznach, Germany). Running a total of 13 injection molds and several Allrounders, it has processed around 4.5 million multipiece Vuvuzelas have been produced to date in the relevant national colors, such as black, red, and gold for Germany. Allit molds them for Urbas Kehrberg GmbH, which sells them through an online shop and in stores.

At Allit, an Allrounder 720 S is used to produce the end piece, an Allrounder 570 C for the middle section, an Allrounder 420 C for the mouthpiece and another Arburg machine produces the silencer. Television reports on the production of the plastic trumpets were shown in the German children's news program "logo" on ZDFtivi as well as on German TV station RTL. —Matt Defosse