Inside the Trafford Park factory that makes millions of toilet rolls a day

How a 'hair dryer' turns a 'smoothie' into kitchen towel and toilet rollNewsAlistair Houghton Business Live Editor17:59, 22 Mar 2025Did you know you need to make a giant paper smoothie and put it through a hair dryer to make your toilet roll?You probably don’t give much thought to where your toilet roll or paper kitchen towel comes from. But in Trafford Park there’s a 200-strong team that can churn out as many as 4.5 million toilet rolls every single day.‌Article continues belowLike your paper soft and luxurious? Then you’ll like the paper made at Essity’s mill, on its £20m line that opened in 2020 and helped it meet the nation’s massive demand for toilet roll as people emptied supermarket shelves to stockpile supplies during the pandemic.As the Manchester Evening News saw on its tour of Trafford Park, that line turns wood pulp into what look like the biggest toilet rolls you’ve ever seen– man-high 50-kilometre rolls of paper that each weigh 1.2 tonnes.Those rolls are then fed into the...