WIPES, MOPS & MICROFIBRES


From Yorkshire With Love


You may not be that familiar with Meltham, but in the midst of the idyllic West Yorkshire town, surrounded by beautiful scenery of rolling hills that brings to mind the likes of Wuthering Heights or An American Werewolf in London (the bit at the start, anyway) lies Disposables UK, manufacturers of wipes, hand towels, toilet rolls and virtually any other paper product you can shake a stick at, if that’s your thing.


The family-run company have been manufacturing and distributing a range of paper disposables for the away- from-home market for more than 25 years, and having recently invested £1.7million into a fully automatic production line, as well as new packaging lines, I was keen to pay them a visit to see just how they do it.


Now, I’ve been to one or two paper mills before (if you count the Victorian, National Trust-run paper mills with costumed characters explaining how it was done ‘in the olden days’), but nothing quite on the scale of Disposables’ 140,000 square foot facility – where massive rolls of paper are converted into the paper towels or toilet rolls that we see in our washrooms every day.


The process of getting these huge rolls, which much be at least seven foot in height and around five foot across, down to size, I learned, is remarkably straightforward thanks to the automated production lines that transfer these rolls onto new, custom made tubes. Once they reach the required length, they are then chopped down to size by huge


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circular saws, packaged up and boxed – as that annoying meerkat off the telly says, simple.


The whole operation is completely seamless and, bar the odd paper jam here and there, can be left to run for up to 18 hours a day. It was certainly impressive to see these massive rolls of paper go in one end, and the regular, everyday toilet rolls come out the other, and made me feel a little like a child who puts bread into a toaster, and is amazed when a slice of toast pops out a couple of minutes later.


The end products are then shipped off to distributors up and down the country to be used in conjunction with their popular Bay West range of dispensers – which have recently been installed at Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough stadium, alongside various other football ground across the country including at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium and St. James’ Park in Newcastle (all in their respective team colours, natch) – or as part of their Optimum Professionals brand.


After our tour of the facility, I sat down with Paul Mulready, Marketing Manager at Disposables UK, and Bill Cooper, Brand Manager of the ProWipers range, over a cup of tea and some rather nice sandwiches to find out a little more about the company, their brands and just some of their goals for the future.


One of the main things that I was keen to find out was how big a role sustainability – something of a buzz word in our industry at the moment


walls certainly attests to that – and that they ensure that they do what they can at their end to make the products as eco-friendly as they can.


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Tomorrow’s Cleaning editor Matt Waring made the short trip over the Pennines to the picturesque home of Disposables UK to find out a bit more about what they do and just how they do it.


– plays at Disposables UK, given that they manufacture products that are, by their very name, disposable. However, I was informed that the environment is something very high up on the agenda at Disposables UK – the leafy green artwork of luscious forests on the


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