General Cores
Custom core designed for your application
Engineered carriers are tubes and cores made of paper, injection molded and extruded plastic or composite materials that are used by a wide range of industries to wind and transport their products. Our facilities across Asia serve major markets like paper, film, tape and textiles.
We design and produce paper tubes and cores for winding labels, barcodes and fac rolls. Whatever your performance and application requirements, we can engineer paper tubes to satisfy them. Our paper tubes and cores are also used for non-winding applications. We produce paper tubes with plastic caps for storage of posters, certificates and drawings.
We can provide:
- The widest range of sizes under one range
- Cores with consistent internal and external outside and inside diameters, accurate lengths, straightness and roundness
- Core diameters from 10mm to 1000mm
- Core thickness from 0.20mm to 20.00mm
- Core lengths from 5mm to 7000mm
- Inside and outside printing of paper tubes
Paper Mill Cores
Setting the standard for Paper Mill Packaging Performance
Sonoco provides a complete line of quality products and services tailored specifically to the exacting needs of printing and writing, newsprint, tissue, paperboard (bleached and unbleached), pulp, nonwoven and specialty grades of paper.
We offer high-performance, high-value paper mill cores that meet or exceed the paper industry’s most demanding requirements. Our cores are superior, efficient and productive when used in paper manufacturing and paper converting.
Our Solutions
- Pulp Non-Woven Cores
- Newsprint Cores
- Paperboard Cores
- Metal Core Ends
- Towel and Tissue Cores
- Pre-Cut Cores
Film Cores
Industry leading in stretch, shrink and high-performance cores
Whether you manufacture polyethylene film, where the prime performance requirement is core strength, or polyester film, where surface characteristics of the carrier are a critical variable, Sonoco designs film cores that meet the needs of a wide spectrum of film producers and converters, with consistent quality and tight tolerance to prevent film damage, increase productivity and reduce overall systems costs.
Manufactured from durable, stable plastics, including polypropylene, styrene, ethylene and ABS, our QS® 2000 high- end film cores are designed to withstand specific known radial strengths. Designing cores to a known radial strength can significantly reduce the frequency of crushed cores and downtime in film manufacturing operations, reducing your total system costs.
Film Core Solutions:
- Stretch Film Cores
- High Performance Film Cores
- Food and Non-Food Packaging Film Cores
- Custom and Specialty Application Film Cores
Specialty Cores
Expertise and on-brand solutions that really stick with you and your market
If you’re producing large volumes of tapes or labels or converting large coils of aluminum or steel – the type of packaging matters, down to the core. Our specialized team can help you select the right core for your cause.
For rewinding adhesive tapes made of a wide variety of substrates such as PVC, kraft, OPP, and cloth, look no further than Sonoco. We provide specialty cores with consistent outside and inside diameters, accurate length, straightness, roundness and quality to enhance your rewinding operations and reduce your total operation costs. We also provide in-house graphic designing and printing capabilities for branded labels, providing your products with visual impact.
Textile Cores
Quality & performance are a part of our fabric
As the leading supplier to the textile industry since our beginning in 1899, Sonoco continues our commitment to making tubes and cores for carpet, carpet yarn, cloth, draw-textured yarn and fiber production.
With innovative new products and process innovations, we have earned a reputation as the leading high-value packaging and services provider to the textile industry. We understand the importance of yarn carrier quality and performance in the production process to prevent downtime.
We engineer and produce the highest quality tubes for production, storage, distribution and end-use of textiles, engineered to meet customer demands for consistency, performance, value and today’s faster winding speeds. We can also improve the efficiency of customer systems with features such as special surface treatments, grooves and notches.
Textile Core Application:
- Poly Oriented Yarn
- Full Draw Yarn
- Delta Tube
- Draw Textile Yarn
- Semi Draw Yarn
Metallan Cores
Specially designed and scientifically engineered for the toughest elements you’ll face
Sonoco Metallan core solutions are ideal for your production or converting packaging needs. They deliver consistent strength and reliable performance every time. No coil defects. No sagging or buckling under pressure. These carry the heaviest loads in the toughest extremes you’ll face shipping and handling the most demanding products.
Using vertically integrated, paper, adhesives and proprietary technology, Sonoco Metallan cores has been shown to offer stress-free solutions for enhanced flexibility and performance. You increase speed-to-market and protect your assets all the way from production to end-user.
