Cabinet Roller Towels

Cabinet roller towels are reliable, low on maintenance, and convenient means of hand drying. Recent scientific reports suggest that it is very important to dry hands thoroughly as an aid to reduce bacterial spread, so a highly robust, properly used and regularly maintained cabinet roller towel offers a cost effective and efficient solution.  We regularly visit to change the rollers and supply replacement.  Please contact us for further details of our cabinet roller towels service.

If you have cabinet roller towels for hand drying, no matter what industry you are in, paper hand towels always come in handy. For cleaning up spills to providing them to customers, paper towels tend to be used much more quickly than anticipated.  Instead of grabbing just one, most people grab a handful. This is particularly true with folded paper towels. Paper towels are responsible for about 0.06 pounds of carbon dioxide, contributing to the overall impact of the paper industry on greenhouse gas emissions caused by the U.S alone each year. On the question of environmental impact of hand drying, the New Scientist published this response to a question posed to them in 2019:

“…..A typically cited figure for the carbon “intensity” of UK electricity generation is 0.2 kilograms of CO2 per kilowatt-hour. Allowing for around 5 per cent transmission losses, this means that a 1.2-kilowatt hand dryer is responsible for 2.1 grams of CO2 when it is run for 30 seconds.

Paper hand towels weigh around 2 grams per sheet, and paper requires about 2.9 megawatt-hours of energy per tonne in its manufacture. Assuming that this comes from standard UK electricity (which is, admittedly, quite a bold assumption), two paper towels are responsible for about 2.3 grams of CO2.

While this impact may feel small compared to other contributors, such as fuel or meat production, cutting back on paper towels is one action that every business can do to create a positive impact on the CO2 problem

That probably isn’t the whole story, however. Other factors are the manufacture of the heater on one side and paper dispenser on the other, and the transport and distribution costs of both. On balance, it comes down to how much the dryer is used and where it gets its electricity from. For a building with low footfall and few occupants who are out for most of the day, the paper towels might well have the edge over a hand dryer.

Jay Pasachoff, Pasadena, California, US

The environmental impact is important, of course, and the electricity needed for a single hand drying could use fewer resources than the production of two paper towels.

But we must also consider the health consequences of improper hand cleaning and drying ………”

Cabinet roller towels were not addressed in this response, as the question was regarding paper versus electric hand drying.  But where they come into their own, is in places where a large amount of hand washing is required, particularly in a manufacturing environment.  Pulling through a dry piece of towel from the cabinet stops the danger of slips and drips on carelessly discarded paper towels, and the cost and noise continuous use of power to run an electric hand dryer.  Our options of cabinet roller towels, electric hand dryers and paper hand towels gives you all the choice you need.