Shop Towels & Wipers

The maintenance bay's consumable layer: Scott's category-defining blue shop towels in roll and pop-up formats, and WypAll's X70 extended-use hydroknit wipers for the wet, rinse-and-keep-working jobs. Wipers are quiet exposure control — the sheet takes the solvent so skin doesn't — and the bench program around them (gloves, hand cleaner, closed waste) is what keeps shop chemistry off shop hands. Real Amazon case pricing throughout.

Editor's picks

• The default case: Scott 75147 12-roll — the blue towel that defined the category, $35.80.
• Extended-use duty: WypAll X70 Brag Box — hydroknit sheets that survive a rinse.
• Truck and cart format: Scott 75190 pop-up boxes — one-handed, zero hardware.

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How to choose

Duty class first: grab-and-toss grease work runs blue rolls; wet extended tasks run X70; hand-drying runs the towel systems collection — never shop towels. Then format: rolls for benches with holders, pop-up boxes for carts, lifts, and trucks.

Complete the bench system: GOJO orange pumice for hands, nitrile gloves for the solvent side, absorbents for what wipers can't hold, and closed metal containers for oily waste. Department home: janitorial & facility safety; case orders via bulk & business orders.

Shop towel & wiper FAQ

Shop towels vs regular paper towels?

Wet strength and solvent tolerance: shop towels and hydroknit wipers survive grease, oil, and torque where hand towels shred in one pass. They cost multiples per sheet and earn it only on bench and maintenance duty — never in the restroom program.

Scott blue rolls vs WypAll X70 — which for what?

Blue rolls are grab-wipe-toss for grease and general mess; X70 hydroknit is the extended-use class — rinse it and keep working through a task. Most shops stock both: rolls at the bench, X70 boxes for wet working wipes.

Rolls or pop-up boxes?

Same sheets, different logistics: rolls cost less per towel but wander benches; pop-up boxes dispense one-handed with zero hardware and survive carts and service trucks. High-motion operations pay the box premium happily.

Are these wipers lint-free?

Low-lint, not lint-free. Finish-critical work — glass, paint prep, optics — needs dedicated low-lint wipers. Blue towels and X70 are for mechanical, maintenance, and cleanup duty.

What gloves go with solvent wiping?

The towel takes the solvent; the glove manages the exposure — nitrile for petroleum products, chemical-resistant gloves for aggressive solvents per the SDS. The towel is never the PPE.

Can shop towels go in regular trash?

Solvent-soaked wipers may be regulated waste depending on the solvent and your jurisdiction — oily rags also self-heat in piles. Closed metal containers for oily waste is the fire-code answer; check local rules for solvent loads.

What's hydroknit, actually?

Kimberly-Clark's spunlace-class fabric technology: cellulose strength with cloth-like flexibility that holds up wet. It's why an X70 sheet survives a rinse cycle a paper towel wouldn't.

How many wipers does a shop burn?

A two-bay maintenance shop typically runs a 12-roll Scott case per quarter plus an X70 box a month. Watch one reorder cycle and set par — wiper outages get improvised with rags nobody laundered.

Why are wipers in a safety store?

Because the bench program is exposure control: the wiper takes the chemical, the pumice cleaner takes the residue, the glove takes the contact, and the closed container takes the fire risk. It's a small system that prevents very old accidents.

What pairs with these on the bench?

GOJO orange pumice for hands, nitrile gloves boxed within reach, and spill control staged for the failures wipers can't absorb. All linked from the janitorial & facility safety department page.