Tork Matic® Blue Hand Towel Roll Advanced
Description
- Extra soft: gentle on the hands with a high quality feel
- Blue hand towels food contact approved for wiping. Traceablility increases safety in food preparation.
Product and delivery data
Delivery data
Carbon emission
- Tork Matic® has an average cradle-to-grave carbon footprint of 11.9 g CO2e per use, with cradle-to-gate part 8.5 g CO2e per use.*******
Use and waste
- One-at-a-time dispensing helps to control consumption and reduce waste.
- Switching from Tork C fold to Tork Matic will help reduce waste with 23%.*
- 99.9% jam-free.**
- Tork hand towels can be recycled into new tissue via Tork PaperCircle®.***
Hygiene
- One-sheet-at-a-time dispensing helps to minimise cross-contamination.****
- Drying hands with Tork paper towels will reduce more bacteria.*****
- Refills are third-party verified for short-term food contact.
- The sensor dispensers are certified Easy to use.******
- Tork Easy Handling® ergonomic packaging for easier carrying, opening and disposal.
Materials
- EU Ecolabel certified refills – reduced environmental impact across the product life cycle
- FSC® certified refills – made from responsibly sourced fibre
- Tork Matic Natural Hand Towel Roll is made from 100% recycled fibres, the colour comes from recycled cardboard boxes as one of the fibre sources.
References
*Comparing average Tork 471114 and 290265 with Tork 290067 based on weight. Lab report 20220705-011.
**Used with Tork refill articles 290016, 290059 & 290067.
***Available in select countries.
****Used with Tork refill articles 290016, 290059 & 290067. 20220208-001-Tork Matic Claim testing.
*****When washing with soap, water vs only using soap and water. Based on modified EN 1499 standard, tested with E. coli., using Tork Mild Soap refill art. 420501 and Tork PeakServe refill art. 10058.
******Certified by the Swedish Rheumatism Association.
*******Represents the Tork Matic® European refill assortment per user occasion. Based on third party reviewed life cycle assessments (LCA) covering all refill quality tiers combined with consumption data. Because this data is a system average, it is not intended to be used in carbon reporting for specific articles and consumption.
Content
The product is made from
Fresh fibres
Recycled fibres
Chemicals
The packaging material is made from paper or plastic.
Material
Fresh fibres and recycled fibresIn the tissue process, both fresh fibres and recovered paper are being used. The choice of pulp is made based on product requirements and pulp availability so the pulp is used in the most efficient way.
Recycling of paper is an efficient use of resources as the wood fibres are used more than once.
High demands are put on quality and purity of recovered fibres, considering each step of the chain (collection, sorting, transport, storage, use), to ensure safe and hygienic products.
Recycled fibres can be produced from different types of recovered paper, such as collected newsprint, magazines, office waste, paper cups, drink cartons, corrugated boxes and paper hand towels. The choice of recovered paper grades is made for each product, depending on its specific requirements on performance properties and brightness. The paper is dissolved in water, washed and treated with chemicals under high temperature and screened to separate out impurities.
Fresh fibre pulp is produced from softwood or hardwood. The wood is subject to chemical and/or mechanical processes where the cellulose fibres are separated out and lignin and other residuals are removed.Bleaching of pulp, used for tissue, is primarily a process to remove substances that could have a negative effect on important properties of the finished product such as purity, absorption, strength and colour of the pulp. There are two different methods used today for bleaching fresh fibre pulp: ECF (elementary chlorine free), where chlorine dioxide is used, and TCF (totally chlorine free) where ozone, oxygen and hydrogen peroxide are used.Bleaching of the recycled fibre pulp is done using chlorine-free bleaching agents (hydrogen peroxide and sodium dithionite).
Chemicals
All chemicals (process aids as well as additives) are assessed from an environmental, occupational health and safety and product safety point of view.
To control product performance we use additives:
- Wet strength agents (for Wipers and Hand Towels)
- Dry strength agents (are used together with mechanical treatment of the pulp to make strong products like wipers)
- For coloured papers dyes and fixatives (to secure perfect fastness of the colour) are added
- For printed products printing inks (pigments with carriers and fixatives) are applied
- For multi ply products we often use a water soluble glue to secure the integrity of the product
In most of our mills we do not add optical brighteners but it often occurs in recovered paper since it is used in printing paper.
We do not use softeners for professional hygiene products.
High product quality is secured through quality and hygiene management systems throughout production, storage and transport.
In order to maintain a stable process and product quality the paper manufacturing process is supported by the following chemicals/ process aids:
- defoamers (surfactants and dispersing agents)
- pH-control (sodium hydroxide and sulphuric acid)
- retention aids (chemicals that help to agglomerate small fibres to prevent fibre loss)
- Coating chemicals (that help to control the creping of the paper to make it soft and absorbent)
To reuse broke and to utilise recovered fibres we use:
- Pulping aid (chemicals that help to repulp wet strong paper)
- Flocculation chemicals (that help to clean out printing inks and fillers from recovered paper)
- Bleaching agents (to increase the brightness of pulp from recovered paper)
In the cleaning of our waste water we use flocculation agents and nutritients for the biological treatment to secure that no negative impact on water quality comes from our mills.
Food Contact
This product fulfills the legislative requirements for Food Contact materials, confirmed by external certification performed by a third party. The product is safe for wiping food contact surfaces and may also come occasionally into contact with foodstuffs for a short period of time.
Environmental certification
This product is certified with the EU Ecolabel with certificate number SE/004/001.
This product is certified for FSC® with certificate number SA-COC-008266.
Packaging
Fulfilment of Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (94/62/EC): Yes
Article creation date and latest article revision
Date of issue: 05-11-2019
Revision date: 07-10-2024
Production
This product is produced at Kostheim mill, DE and certified according to HACCP, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 (Environmental management systems), EMAS (eco-management and audit scheme), ISO 45001, ISO 50001 and FSC Chain-Of-Custody.
Destruction
This product is mainly used for personal hygiene and can be collected together with household waste.
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