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“School’s out for summer” – so sang Alice Cooper, and with May already here, it won’t be long before schools, colleges and universities close their doors for the holidays. But while students are already planning how they’ll spend their summer, education kitchens have planning of their own to do. Procurement teams need to be thinking ahead now, making sure they have the right equipment in place to keep things running smoothly.
Safety first
Health and safety are a core consideration in any kitchen: in fact, 80% of education kitchen managers rank it as their top priority*. But while the school year changes, too often dispensers remain stubbornly static.
Accidental cuts might seem like relatively minor incidents, but across a year their impact can soon add up. Dispensers shouldn’t be the source of repeated injuries, and staff needn’t worry about risking cuts when they’re trying to put away leftover ingredients. Reducing cuts and lost-time injuries (LTIs) means a safer, more efficient, and more cost-effective kitchen.
With procurement decisions currently on the agenda, decision-making should revolve around equipment designed from the ground-up for safety that makes the basics work for you.
A cut above the rest
Safety has always guided the development of the Speedwrap Pro. Designed to make dispensing quicker and cleaner as well as safer, this Prowrap innovation removes the friction that can slow down busy kitchen teams. By offering a more controlled, easy-to-use cutting system, the Speedwrap Pro reduces the risk of accidental cuts while helping staff work more confidently and efficiently.
This is achieved thanks to the dispenser’s patented safety blade. The cutting edge is only exposed when a user presses down on the lid, helping to avoid unwanted incidents. For operations teams tracking LTIs, this takes a significant risk completely out of the equation.
As Sherri Cadwallader, Senior Catering Technician at South and City College Birmingham, told us: “With the Speedwrap Pro, because it has a safety blade, we don’t have to worry about cuts.”
Built for sustainability
The Speedwrap Pro’s benefits extend to the whole system around it. As well as helping reduce food waste in busy kitchens, Sherri tells us, “The Speedwrap Pro really helps us to control usage.”
The Prowrap team engineered the dispenser with sustainability in mind from the outset. This next-generation solution swaps plastic refill rolls for a notched cardboard core that preserves the durability of plastic with a far smaller environmental impact. Although this may seem like a small change, collectively it removes over 15 tonnes of CO2 from the supply chain across Prowrap’s customer base each year. UK-based manufacturing helps to further reduce carbon output in the form of transport emissions (with the added benefit of ensuring reliable supply), and our Dispenser Recycling Scheme ensures any units can be collected and recycled at the end of their life.
This focus on sustainability is important because 90% of education kitchen managers surveyed say that sustainability is a significant consideration for them, and 55% cite it as a core value*. With sustainability expectations set to rise further in the future, the Speedwrap Pro helps you futureproof your kitchen.
Small gains, big impact
Kitchens need to sweat the small stuff. 30 seconds here or there might not sound like much, but multiplied over days, weeks, months and years, it soon adds up. A small feature that prevents a couple of cuts results in hundreds fewer LTIs over a dispenser’s lifespan.
As Nedko Rusev, NHS Chef of the Year 2025, says: “The Speedwrap Pro is really useful in the kitchen. It saves the headache from using a lot of product, it’s easy to use, and the safety blade is so helpful. I strongly suggest you get one!”
*Research by the Chefs’ Forum, 2026
