Plant Tour:
Pioneer Balloon Plant Tour

For more than 80 years, Pioneer Balloon Company has been in the business of making people smile. The color, excitement, and magic of Qualatex balloons has welcomed troops home from war, celebrated the first man on the moon, launched marriages, and announced births. Our Dove balloons flew gracefully during the opening ceremony of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.

El Dorado, Kansas, is home to the company's largest manufacturing facility. This 200,000 square foot facility employs over 300 people from Butler and surrounding counties. In 1989, a 100,000 square feet building was built to accommodate foil balloon manufacturing that was relocated from Lenexa, Kansas. Five years later, the plant was doubled in size to its now 200,000 square feet. The plant was expanded to become the Central Distribution for Pioneer Worldwide. Our El Dorado operations ship product to all corners of the world everyday.

Latex balloons are manufactured in bulk at our three plants in Dallas, Texas, Ashland, Ohio, and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. These plants produce over one billion latex balloons annually that are shipped to our El Dorado plant for finishing operations. Millions of these latex balloons are printed in El Dorado by our state of the art printing machines. The printed balloons are then packaged and sold to our vast network of distributors and wholesalers all over the world.

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2400 Pioneer Dr
El Dorado, KS 67042

Directions: Take turnpike 35 and exit El Dorado at the first exit coming from Wichita. Turn left at the light onto 254/Central proceed to the 2nd light and turn left onto Haverhill north. You will come to a stop sign at 6th and Haverhill, proceed straight ahead on Haverhill. You will come to Pioneer Dr, turn left and go to the west side of the building, you will see a large red silo on the building. Note: The address is not marked on the building. Please be prompt, the tour begins at 6 PM. Travis Mann will be our host. The phone number there is 316-321-4551.