When paper is produced at James Cropper, there will undoubtedly be a quantity left over after they have met the quota for an order. The left over material is tied up into bales and kept until the next time that a similar colour is being produced, where it is then added to the pulping process. James Cropper's Kendall site sits right on the banks of the River Kent. The mill has had a close relationship with the river since it was first constructed. In 2015 the River Kent burst

I was invited to visit James Cropper PLC at their site in Kendall. There has been a mill of some sort on the site since the 13th Century, but James Cropper was not established until 1845. The current chairman is the great, great, great grandson of the company's founder and namesake, Mark Cropper. The tour of the site took us through their lab where we were given a small scale demonstration of the principles of how paper is made. Next we were shown how paper samples need to be