Feathers for the shuttlecocks used at the badminton matches of the just-completed Tokyo Olympics are produced at a factory in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province.

 

With a history of 30 years of feather processing, the factory processes more than 80 million feathers annually, supplying the best badminton shuttlecock brands around the world.

 

Let's take a look at how these feathers are processed!

 

A worker dries feathers on a ground covered by snow-white feathers at a factory in Chengdu

 

A worker selects and classifies feathers

 

More than 70 workers process feathers

 

(Image source: IC)