Paper Mill Cores
Strong Paper Mill Cores That Set the Standard for Performance
Paper Mill Cores
Meet the demands of pulp, tissue, paperboard and other specialty paper grade applications with our paper mill cores. Setting the standard for paper mill packaging performance, we design our complete line of cardboard tubes and cores with recycled materials and customize our services to fit your processes and equipment.
M-Core
The revolutionary Sonoco M-Core™ series paper mill cores are designed to manage unprecedented winding speeds and reel widths within the paper and printing industry. M-Cores are produced using the Sonoco patented concept of using self-manufactured (wide-ply) coreboard with a unique manufacturing process.
Benefits
- Safe unwinding speed can be reached with a smaller amount of rest paper
- Better ‘run-ability’ in paper mill winder
- Eliminates web breaks induced by excessive vibrations
- Tolerates greater bending deformation if driven too close to resonance
- Less elongation during winding
- Lessens risk of center bursts
- Easier to wind a tighter paper reel bottom
- Better dimensional stability in variable storage and transportation conditions
Intellicore
The efficiencies of Intellicore™ paper roll identification technology can reduce paper waste in many areas of the supply chain at an average of two to five percent a year by reducing lost inventory and ghost waste, the need for working capital and eliminating costly manual tracking during the life of a roll.
Benefits
Intellicore™ paper roll identification technology allows the paper industry to:
- Monitor and verify shipping and delivery
- Monitor paper grade and storage visibility
- Minimize buffer stocks and working capital requirements
- Monitor and streamline production in real time
- Eliminate ghost waste, shrinkage and waste due to inaccurate input and damaged labels
- Cut manual stocktaking errors and hours
- Optimize worker/operator productivity
- Ensure accurate order fulfilment
- Allows real time tracking from manufacture to consumption. A single identifier is used to automatically track a roll through its lifetime.
- Enables automatic paper-yield verification. Yield verification by roll, enabling confirmation of paper supplier, quality and quantities by roll.
- Increases operational efficiency. Real-time inventory data interfaces enable production line operators to make timely paper-use decisions.
- Eliminates manual input errors and minimizes manual stocktaking procedures.
- Allows accurate stock location. Accurate stock inventories by location enables clamp truck drivers to easily access stock.
- Just-in-time supply chain management. Accurate inventories eliminate the need for buffer stocks, enabling optimal management and reduced working capital requirements.
Core Services
Dynamic Strength Testing
We use the dynamic strength test during core design and quality control to make sure our cores withstand the alternating stresses of winding and unwinding.
In-House Core Cutting
Handling the entire core preparation process for the convenience of our customers.
Radial Crush Testing
A measuring technique that determines the pressure applied to a core by the yarn wound on it.
Roll Identification
Roll identification enables automatic roll inventory tracking throughout the entire production and supply chain process.
String-Up Efficiency Improvement
String-up efficiency is a critical component in the man-made fibre yarn production process.
Torque Resistance & Critical Speed Testing
Sonoco focuses on the interaction between our customer’s products and our cores.
In House Core Preparation Service with Ahlstrom, Italy
Sonoco partnership with Ahlstrom Italy has created and established an inhouse core preparation service for internal core handling. Through close collaboration between the two companies, we developed a tailor-made solution to match customer needs. Nowadays, Sonoco employers handle the full core preparation service at the premises of the Ahlstrom Italy’s mill.
This service is operating very positively and provides multiple benefits to our partner. The mill can now put a large focus on their main business, paper manufacturing. Key factors for the success have been a strong partnership working closely together, teamwork from preparation to execution and state-of-the art equipment.
Count on Strong Paper Mill Core Performance
Sonoco offers a range of paper mill cores to suit your product requirements.