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Chinese factory mass-produces Trump masks
At a latex arts and crafts factory in Jinhua, East China's Zhejiang Province, workers are busy molding faces of US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
The factory produces Halloween and party supplies, as well as masks that look like celebrities or superheroes.
In the factory, it's quite easy to see hands, baby shapes, as well as faces made from plaster scattered everywhere. On a desk, a set of heads are presented, from Osama Bin Laden to Merlin.
Jacky Chen, the factory manager, realized the US presidential election would provide a huge business opportunity and the factory started making masks of the candidates early this year.
Over the last six months, the factory has received more than half a million orders from overseas for each of the candidates, but Chen believes Trump will be the most popular mask in the long run.
"Even though the sales are more or less the same, I think in 2016 this mask will completely sell out," Chen told Reuters, pointing at a Trump mask. The masks will soon appear on US streets.
At a latex arts and crafts factory in Jinhua, East China's Zhejiang Province, workers are busy molding faces of US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
The factory produces Halloween and party supplies, as well as masks that look like celebrities or superheroes.
In the factory, it's quite easy to see hands, baby shapes, as well as faces made from plaster scattered everywhere. On a desk, a set of heads are presented, from Osama Bin Laden to Merlin.
Jacky Chen, the factory manager, realized the US presidential election would provide a huge business opportunity and the factory started making masks of the candidates early this year.
Over the last six months, the factory has received more than half a million orders from overseas for each of the candidates, but Chen believes Trump will be the most popular mask in the long run.
"Even though the sales are more or less the same, I think in 2016 this mask will completely sell out," Chen told Reuters, pointing at a Trump mask. The masks will soon appear on US streets.
