Textile Cores
Textile Cores
Sonoco provides paper cones, paper tubes, and plastic tubes & cores for the textile market.
Paper Tubes and Cones Made to Fit Your Requirements
Paper yarn carriers from Sonoco enhance the productivity and output quality of fully automatic, high speed winders as well as semi-automatic and manual winders.
Using proprietary technology, we manufacture high performance paper cones and paper tubes for the spun yarn market. Our philosophy of addressing and satisfying the requirements of modern high technology, automatic yarn spinning, winding and twisting equipment has established new standards in paper yarn carriers.
The new standard is not a one-carrier-fits-all program, especially in paper cones. Working with yarn manufacturers in more than fifty countries, we have learnt to examine each customer’s machine set up and produce all carriers according to each customer's requirements.
PrinTex®
Producers require a high quality core but in smaller quantities and increased colour variations, all at a lower price.
PrinTex® has been designed to help ease the pressures experienced by textile producers and at the same time meet their needs in terms of performance and value. Our cores not only improve colour recognition for customers, they are low cost and improve production efficiency.
Benefits
- High number of colour variations available
- For Nylon and Polyester Yarn
- Reduced inventory costs
- Streamlined manufacturing process
- Improved colour recognition
- Decreased manual labour cost
IntelliTexCore™
The accuracy of IntelliTexCore textile tube identification technology enables manufacturers to save significant money by reducing lost inventory and ghost waste, reducing the need for working capital, eliminating costly manual tracking and simplify data tracing in the complete process.
Benefits
- Monitor and verify shipping and delivery
- Monitor all process steps and storage visibility
- Minimise buffer stocks and working capital requirements
- Monitor and streamline production in real time
- Eliminate mix-up, manual work and waste due to inaccurate input and damaged labels
- Cut manual stocktaking errors and hours
- Optimise worker/operator productivity
- Ensure accurate order fulfilment
Hi-Radius Core
One of the biggest issues in today’s polyamide and polyester yarn manufacturing process is machine downtime caused by yarn breakage during unwinding. Typically, polyamide and polyester yarn producers have used a straight cut paper core with a plastic cap during the unwinding process which does not fully meet their needs. When this method is used the yarn often snags or catches during unwinding, causing it to break. This leads to costly machine downtime and high yarn waste. The Hi-Radius core has been designed to meet the needs of yarn manufacturers by delivering a core that significantly reduces yarn breaks and maximises yarn production, delivering numerous cost savings.
Benefits
- Decreased yarn breaks leads to less machine downtime and increased productivity
- No use of plastic unwinding caps – save cost and handling time
- Reduced waste as plastic caps are not needed
- Unwind until the end of the bobbin leads to no wasted yarn
- Hi-Radius Core is 100% recyclable
EcoSPAN
With EcoSPAN® we have the unique capability to customise the friction performance of the core surface to match the unique requirements of your spandex product to either increase or decrease the desired friction properties that best match you needs.
And because our surface properties can be tailored to meet your specific application, we’re able to create a much more efficient transfer environment that improves string-up and overall operational efficiency. We are also able to engineer the core strength to meet your specific yarn compression loads. So, when you wind it all up, this means reducing costs by eliminating missed transfers and reduced downtime, which results in increased speed, throughput, productivity and profitability.
Benefits
- Core dimensional stability to achieve good package formation and consistent yarn transfer
- Tailored surface friction performance to match specialised yarn requirements
Services
We provide a number of textile core services to industry.
Radial Crush Testing
This measuring technique determines the pressure applied to a core by the yarn wound on it.
String-up Efficiency Improvement
Save costs and reduce waste with this critical component of the production process.
Inhouse Printex Service
Connect With Sonoco
Contact us to discuss how Sonoco can provide custom textile core solutions for your business.