On the 7th of September the Tour of Britain arrives in the beautiful Ribble Valley in Lancashire. Whilst some of the world’s best cyclists compete for the chance to win a road race record, another world record will be attempted just yards from the start line.
The Printed Cup Company in association with Cumbrian paper mill company James Cropper want to celebrate the famous race coming to Clitheroe. So, to mark the occasion, they are hoping to manufacture the world’s largest paper cup and win a place in the Guinness Book of Records. The cup will measure 4.5 metres tall by three metres wide and will be placed on the top of the Printed Cup Company’s factory roof in Clitheroe using a huge crane.
The giant cup will be a perfect scale model of the real thing. It will be made of bright yellow paper, the traditional colour worn by the Tour’s winning cyclist. There will be a cappuccino finish at the top of the cup with a deluxe swirl!
It’s the first time that a challenge like this has ever been attempted – and the team will be making it up as they go along. Normally the Printed Cup Company produce a thousand bespoke paper cups in 24hrs for hundreds of companies across Europe.
James Cropper, the only company in the world to recycle paper cups, will supply over 100 metres of specially dyed yellow card – enough for thousands of normal coffee cups. It will take over a week to manufacture the giant cup and will need over 100 hours of intensive labour. It’s so big that half of the factory floor will need to be cleared for its construction. The team have never attempted anything like this before and hope they’ve got their calculations right!
The cup will be placed on the roof using a crane just before the race starts. If its raining, the cup won’t last long so the organisers are hoping that the Guinness adjudicators arrive in time to give them the official title of The World’s Largest Paper Cup! In accordance with the companies ethos, the giant cup will be recycled once the challenge has been recorded.
There will be film footage and photographs of the cup building available to media outlets if required.
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