Let your imagination go. Snap brick after brick together and create a castle, or a spaceship. Children have played with building bricks for many years.
As you are making your cities and ships, do you ever wonder how plastic building pieces are made? They are made of a strong, tough, long-lasting plastic. Each building piece begins as a bunch of plastic pellets. The plastic pellets are heated to 230 °C. When they melt, they are like bread dough. Moulding machines press this “dough” into different shapes and pieces.
The parts fall into bins at the end of each machine. Robots collect the full bins. They are then labelled and placed in a warehouse.
Different departments put different building kits together. First, they order the pieces they need from the factory. Then, workers in each department seal the pieces in small plastic bags. The bags are sorted into boxes for the building kits. Other machines make the labels and boxes for each set.
For some model designers, work is play! Many get to play with plastic building bricks all day. Their job is to make designs for displays at toy fairs and exhibitions around the country. Sometimes these designs are over 2 metres high! Children love to play with toy bricks, too.
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