Condom Manufacturing Process Research

I watched number of condom manufacturing videos on youtube to study the industrial process of manufacturing condoms.

According to my research, Karex in Malaysia is the biggest condom maker in the world. They manufacture around 60% of the condom for hundreds of brands all over the world because of the rubber monopoly in southeast Asia. I found two videos produced for Karex that tells the story of the global condom manufacturing giant and gave an in-depth look into their manufacturing process. Of course they will not reveal all their secrets on screen, this video still gave me a great knowledge of how condoms are made industrially and informed my own creation process.

To get a more multiple views on the manufacturing process of condoms, I watched videos produced for two other brands: German condom giant Billy Boy and Indian brand Manforce.

Interestingly, both Karex and Billy boy did not reveal how they process natural latex into the final substance that makes condom, but Manforce did. They revealed the process of preparing the chemical composite that they use to mix in with natural latex to produce the raw material for condom, which is super helpful for me.

They all mentioned tests and international standards for testing condoms in the manufacturing process which helped me to think about how to test my own materials and what standards it need to reach to in order for it to become a viable substitute for latex in condom manufacturing.