Bobrick B-36903.MBLK Recessed Paper Towel Dispenser/Waste Receptacle

No. The B-36903 is a recessed wall unit only, and it needs a finished opening cut into the wall. If your wall is solid masonry, a shallow chase, or has services behind it, you need a surface mounted towel dispenser/waste unit instead, not this cabinet.

It takes folded towels only, either 300 C-fold or 400 multifold. No roll towel. The built-in TowelMate feeds them one at a time so users don't pull a handful, which is what keeps the 1.6 gallon waste side from filling by mid-morning. If your building is standardized on roll towel, this is the wrong cabinet.

Yes, it is ADA compliant. Compliance still depends on where you set it in the wall, so mount it so the operable towel opening lands within reach range for your facility type.

The removable waste container holds 1.6 gallons (6.1 L). That is a small bin, sized for a single fixture washroom or a low to moderate traffic office restroom. In a stadium, school corridor, or busy retail washroom your janitorial crew will be emptying it several times a day, so step up to a larger capacity receptacle for those.

Two finishes: matte black and satin. The matte black is powder coated over stainless steel, so the corrosion resistance comes from the substrate and the color from the coating. Clean it with mild soap and water, not abrasives or solvent, or you will burnish the powder coat and it will show against the rest of the unit.

The .MBLK suffix is Bobrick's matte black powder coat over stainless, the same coating used across their matte black accessory line, so a soap dispenser, grab bar, or mirror ordered in .MBLK is the intended visual match. For a fleet spec, order every accessory in that same suffix rather than mixing painted and powder coated blacks from different makers.

Manual, not sensor operated. Users pull a towel from the TowelMate feed. There is no power, no batteries, and no rough-in electrical to coordinate, which is why this unit only needs a framed opening and nothing else from the electrician.

The door has a 90 degree return, so it opens flat against the wall rather than hanging into the traffic path. Worth knowing if you are placing it in a narrow vestibule or beside an in-swinging restroom door, since a full swing door on a recessed cabinet can foul the door leaf.

The container lifts out and is leak-proof, so the crew pulls the whole bin rather than reaching into the cabinet. That matters for wet paper towels, which is what almost all of the waste in a towel dispenser cabinet is.