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IPMc Startup Day
Photograhy by Dawn Mills

Note: Some photograpns have been electronically obscured to protect trade secret information.

Storage Vats	A gelatin flask drawing power to keep the temperature stable	Bulk gelatin in granular form	IPMc Plant manager Jeffrey Danta talks about the manufacturing process	Outside water processing and air conditioning are critical
This mixer blends pigment into the gelatin, and mechanically heats it	Bud Orr looks at some color samples	The encapsulation machine at work	Bud watches paint injected into the dies	These drying trays stack high, but allow air to flow between them
One of the two dies that shape the paintball and cut the two halves apart	End view of the die	Bud shows Sonny Lopez and Jerry Olmstead how squishy the paint is when it comes out of the machine	From the encapsulator the balls drop onto a conveyor belt	A ball coming out of the die
Bud, enthusiastic about the new paint	From the conveyor the paint drops into the dryer	Paint dropping out from the encapsulator	Staff from IPM and Worr Game Products on the first day of making Worr Paint	The new paintballs are flicked out of the die by a spinning bar
With the machine stopped, the bar is clearly visible	The gelatin flasks in back deliver liquid that is chilled on rollers into a sheet, and rolled between the dies on each side. The white hoses deliver fill to the middle as the gelatin is sandiwched together.	During the first test runs paint fill was loaded into the encapsulator one bucket at a time - this would soon be replaced by a pump system

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