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Britain's reusable cup factory, selling direct.

hellocups is the direct-from-factory route into Tees Valley Plastics, the UK manufacturer behind millions of reusable cups at festivals, stadiums, weddings and venues across the country.

UK manufacturing

We mould, print and ship every cup from our Tees Valley factory.

Every cup is moulded, printed and dispatched from Stockton-on-Tees, deep in the Tees Valley industrial heartland. We control the full process end to end, the polypropylene melt, the in-mould labelling, the screen print, the finishing, the warehousing, the courier load. There is no broker chain, no importer, no middle-man margin to feed.

In-house moulding

Our injection-moulding machines run food-grade BPA-free polypropylene 24/7. Every cup is moulded on-site, never imported.

In-Mould Labelling

Full-colour artwork embedded into the cup wall during moulding. No per-colour upcharge, no fading, no peeling across 200+ wash cycles.

UKCA at the line

Every pint, half-pint and two-pint cup carries UKCA + CE legal-measure marks moulded into the cup wall for licensed bar service.

Cowton Way, Stockton-on-Tees, TS16 0RE. Part of the Tees Valley Plastics group, alongside our sister brands Drinksmate and Express Cups. Same factory, different service models.

Sustainability

The most useful thing a reusable cup does is replace single-use plastic at scale.

Across its working life every cup we make replaces between 100 and 250 disposable cups. Multiply that by the millions of cups we’ve put into circulation since 2012 and the numbers start to bite.

Closed-loop recycling

Polypropylene is 100% recyclable. Cups returned to us at end of life feed back into the production line as regrind.

200+ wash cycles

Our cups are engineered for commercial dishwashers. A well-maintained cup typically survives 200 cycles before retirement.

Lower freight footprint

UK-made: no shipping containers from overseas, no surprise duty bills, no compliance gaps when regulations change.

Deposit-return schemes

We help festivals, stadiums and venues design deposit-return schemes that fund the cup buy and keep your branding circulating.

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