article_snippet: Powdered pigment is then added to create a colour.
article_snippet: The coloured liquid is then pumped into a water-cooled mould, before The coloured liquid is ejected through crayon-shaped cavities and sent for labelling.
article_snippet: Mr Derballa added: 'I loved the mixing kettles where the pigment is mixed with the melted wax - boxes were these beautiful vats of molten colour. '
article_snippet: A mixing kettle full of paraffin and cerise pigment is stirred up, left, and right, the paraffin is moulded into cerise crayons by the rotary table .
article_snippet: Pictured left, early steps involve mixing uncoloured paraffin with powder pigment and right, formed crayons are labelled before being sorted .
article_snippet: Mr Derballa, right, said: 'I loved the kettles where the pigment is mixed - they were these beautiful vats of molten colour'