Molten Corporation (株式会社モルテン 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.[1] 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.