ITS closure sent shock- waves across both banks of the Humber, with families on each side of the river affected by the 550 job losses.
The Kimberly Clark factory in Barton reaches the end of the road next week when the site's huge holding of machinery parts, maintenance equipment and tools go under the hammer in the first of a series of auctions.
The firm announced last October that it intended to cease the manufacture of Huggies nappies in Europe, with the exception of Italy.
Today, the future of the site remains uncertain.
However, the company, which had been a major driver in the Humber since it opened its factory in the region 20 years ago, is still hoping the site can be sold to a future employer.
Rumours that global internet giant Amazon has since shown interest in the site could not be confirmed, and a spokesman for the company said the company "wouldn't wish to comment on rumour or speculation".
Yesterday, a spokesman for Kimberly Clark said: "There is nothing we are able to talk about at this stage."
Kimberly Clark has worked with local council and organisations to help affected workers find work or retrain and a series of jobs fairs took place in and around the factory.
As a result, by the time production ceased at the plant on March 18, about half of the former staff were either in employment, had taken early retirement or had been redeployed.
The company has now instructed Scunthorpe-based industrial auctioneers CJM Asset Management to sell off machinery spares, stores and equipment that are now surplus to requirements.
CJM director Paul Cooper said: "The manufacturing lines are being removed and relocated to other factories around the world but that still left a vast amount of high-value equipment in the stores and on the site.
"When you are operating a 24-hour manufacturing process, which the factory did, you've got to carry the parts and spares to sort any problem that arises at any time – and we've got at least one of everything from bearings, motors and gearboxes down to shafts, nuts and bolts.
"Ordinarily, we would consider staging big auctions like these on site but because of the engineering work under way at the factory in connection with the movement of the production lines, that was not practical, so everything is being moved to our auction centre in Scunthorpe."
The first online sale extends to more han 700 lots and is scheduled to close on Tuesday. Two further auctions are to take place next month.
Mr Cooper said the auction was attracting "widespread national and international appeal".
He said: "We have also been sent tools of every size and shape imaginable, maintenance equipment and other kit.
"All of it is top-quality equipment and much of it has never been used."
