kk industry sports equipment founded november 1 1958 ; 57 years ago 1958 11 01 headquarters yokogawa shin machi nishi ku hiroshima 733 0013 japan area served worldwide key people kiyo tamiaki president and ceo products sports equipment automotive parts building materials nursing and welfare equipment number of employees 3 900 consolidated as of march 31 2015 website official website footnotes references 1 2 official fiba basketballs by molten molten corporation kabushiki gaisha moruten is a sports equipment and automotive parts company based in hiroshima japan . their football basketball volleyball and handball are often used for official matches games and competitions . notably molten basketballs are the official balls for all fiba worldwide competitions and numerous domestic leagues outside of north america . through the 2006 07 season it supplied balls for the elite europe wide euroleague but the league s organizing body euroleague basketball company switched to nike as its basketball supplier . 3 molten is also the official volleyball producer for usa volleyball and the ncaa championships . since 2012 the company approuced even in the european football for supply alashkert in the armenian premier league their first official step in football . they offered their technology to the teamgeist project and supplied the official football as oem to adidas for the 2006 fifa world cup . 4 history edit founded in 1958 molten is the world s largest ball and sports equipment manufacturer . molten usa inc. was established in 1983 to bring these quality sports balls to the u.s. marketplace . originally located in southern california molten usa moved to northern nevada in 1988 and continues to call the reno sparks area its home . only six years after their founding molten basketballs volleyballs and soccer balls were the official balls of the 1964 tokyo olympics . molten has been the official basketball for the olympic games in los angeles 1984 seoul 1988 barcelona 1992 atlanta 1996 sydney 2000 athens 2004 beijing 2008 and london 2012 . molten basketballs have also been the official ball for the international basketball federation fiba for the past 25 years when culminating in the men s and women s world basketball championship . this championship was held in the u.s. for the first time in indianapolis in august 2002 . molten volleyballs became the official ball for the u.s. national teams in 1997 and the boys and girls junior national teams in 2001 . presently clubs regions high schools colleges and tournaments throughout the u.s. use molten volleyballs . at 2012 molten has landed in the european football and now supplying the alashkert in the armenian premier league . molten supports several non profit organizations and top leagues all over the world . notes and references edit corporate profile . molten corporation . retrieved march 10 2016 . company overview . bloomberg businessweek . bloomberg l.p. retrieved march 10 2016 . euroleague basketball announces partnership with nike . euroleague basketball . june 28 2007 . retrieved july 2 2007 . camacho mariano jes s february 15 2016 . en busca de la esfera de dios in search of the sphere of god . vavel in spanish . retrieved march 10 2016 . external links edit japan portal sports portal cars portal companies portal molten international site molten usa molten basketballcamps molten vietnam retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title molten corporation & oldid 743670470 categories sporting goods manufacturers of japancompanies based in hiroshima prefecturerubbersporting goods brandssportswear brandscompanies established in 19581958 establishments in japanjapanese brandshidden categories cs1 spanish language sources es use mdy dates from february 2016articles containing japanese language textvague or ambiguous time from february 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages espa olfran aisitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 17 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view