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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Billiard balls and playing cards. Belgium is world leader in both.

Edit: forgot to add pigeons. Belgian competition pigeons are the most expensive in the world.

Edit 2: Belfries. Clock-O-Matic is a Belgian company and world leader in the automation of Belfries. It's not that hard because most Belfries are located in Belgium and France, if not all of them.

Edit 3: It never ends. Roller coaster wheels. Let that sink in. No their country produces more roller coaster wheels nor is as good as we arr at it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Man, it feels weird to think of USPCC as a Cartamundi subsidiary, but I guess you're right โ€” since 2019 (had to look that up) Belgium really has been the playing-card hub of the world! (A little American patriotism just died in me...)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

USPCC only makes for a fourth of Cartamundi's revenue. And to make it even more Belgian, Cartamundi is still run by the same two families that founded the company 6 generations ago Each family owns 50% of the shares.

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