‘We’ve got loads and loads and loads of loo rolls,’ says operations manager, Allan Hughes, who has worked here for 25 years. (While Simon Cowell is said to favour a special black loo roll made in Portugal, coloured loo roll — once the perfect complement to your bathroom suite — is now generally considered the height of naff and few mills produce it.) So some people scrunch — grab a load of loo roll and ball it up in readiness, whereas others neatly fold. (Here in the UK, the main loo roll industry body sets some of the world’s strictest specifications on the flushability of loo roll, necessitating a constant balancing act between strength and durability.) It turns out that the manufacture of loo roll is a rather magnificent and incredibly noisy process.

Source: Daily Mail March 15, 2020 23:56 UTC