00:00We produce wrapping tissue paper so we brand the tissue paper with names of
00:17retail shops and they use it for point-of-sale wrapping their goods.
00:21Roachbridge Paper Mill was owned and run by my grandfather until he died in 1979 and then
00:35for 20 odd years it went out of family ownership and when the paper mill went into liquidation in
00:431999, Charles and I, my husband and I, set up Roachbridge Tissues. We bought one of the
00:51printing machines and one of the sheeting machines and we started a company.
00:57There's been paper on Roachbridge since 1875. Prior to that, there was a mill here but it
01:03was a cotton mill. We were the last mill on the River Darwin.
01:13It's very traditional. You can't really print tissue paper digitally. It just doesn't work.
01:20It's too fine. It just rips. So our machines are dinosaurs really. We maintain them but
01:27they're old workhorses. They just keep going and going. It's a very slow and steady process
01:31printing tissue paper.
01:42We wouldn't be anywhere without all our team members at work for us. Manufacturing is a fantastic
01:47thing to do. It's great to come into work in the morning and when you leave in the evening,
01:52you've actually produced something, something to send out of the door. And everybody pretty much
01:57knows how to work all the machines. Everybody's trained on all the machines.
02:01Normally, I just come in at 7.30, set machines up, get them going, make sure everybody else's got their job and everyone's just happy with the job, what they're doing and it goes from there. It's just a good day.
02:18It started at 18, I think it was. And then, yeah, straight from school, basically. My dad's just working. Well, my dad got me the job here first when it was the paper mill.
02:30You could see it with the head foreman down at the bottom and, yeah, and it went from there. I said, do you want a job? I said, I don't know, really.
02:38So, and I've been here ever since.
02:44It's just something different every day, job-wise, you know. We could be printing one minute, I could be cutting the next minute and then.
02:51In the old days, everything was wrapped in tissue paper. There was always a layer between everything. I mean, if you think about when you move house, they always wrap everything in tissue paper.
02:59But I think now it is just, it just gives a little bit of an extra luxury, just gives that sort of special feel to it when, when things come wrapped in it.
03:16If I'm having a bad day with getting the colours right, it can be a mucky job, which my wife appreciates.
03:21It's fantastic having a traditional business, and I don't think paper's going to go out of fashion any time soon.
03:32It would be a dream to be able to pass it down through our family.
03:35wrapping up all the way.
03:37I don't put it back on the way, but again, if I'm happy.
03:38I don't know.
03:39It's justice it up right on the way.
03:40Alright, thanks again for putting them on the way.
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