# Matchmaking

In Eindhoven, the only match factory in the Netherlands that has existed for 100 years, strips the bark from poplar trunks and peels them to make veneer the thickness of matches. Stacks of veneer are cut off in a beating machine to produce matchsticks. These are impregnated and dipped into the liquid cup mass consisting of potassium chlorate. In another machine the matchboxes are made. In a filling machine the boxes are filled and on both sides of the box a coating of phosphorus is applied. Per day 80 mln matches are produced.

- Kind: Film
- By: Polygoon-Profilti (producer)
- Archive: [Europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/item/2051906/data_euscreenXL_https___www_openbeelden_nl_media_659021)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/europeana/2051906~data_euscreenXL_https___www_openbeelden_nl_media_659021?play=1)