Choosing the right packaging for your products is crucial to your success. Packaging protects products, presents them attractively on store shelves, and ultimately influences how consumers perceive your brand. Yet, with the wide variety of packaging formats available today, deciding the best option can be challenging.
Sonoco is here to help! Known as paper containers, cardboard cans, fiber cartridges or even spiral-wound tubes, here are five key things you need to know about Sonoco’s paper tube packaging and how it can be the smart choice for your packaged consumer goods.
Paper Cans Come in a Variety of Sizes and Styles to Fit Your Needs
From convenient on-the-go snack containers to bulk industrial packages, paper tubes come in a variety of sizes to showcase and carry your product. Our rigid paper container diameters range from 1 to 6 inches with heights between 1.25 and 12 inches.
Your brand will look good from every angle with high-end graphic labeling that wraps 360° around the can. Our spiral wound labels are added to the can as it is being made for greater production efficiency. This also ensures the label won’t separate during handling. For greater packaging flexibility, convolute labels can be wrapped around the tube after it is wound. With a discreet, vertical seam, you still get the benefits of full wrap labeling, along with the ability to apply labels as needed to meet demand.
Top it all off with a variety of closures to meet your product protection and dispensing needs. From pull tabs to pour spouts to shaker tops and plastic overcaps, Sonoco offers a wide range of paper, metal and plastic closures with options for printing and embossing, adding structural integrity and hermetic sealing for lasting protection.
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Rigid Paper Containers are Adaptable for Any Market
Used for everything from food and beverage packaging to construction supplies, paper tube packaging can be found in nearly every aisle of your local supermarket and home improvement store. With their shelf-appeal, durability, labeling, lining and sealing options, paper cans are one of the most versatile packaging options available today.
Popular Use Applications Include:
- Snacks & Stacked Chips
- Coffee
- Powdered Beverages
- Powdered Infant Formula
- Pet Treats & Supplements
- Refrigerated Dough
- Sugars and Spices
- Nuts
- Construction Adhesives. Sealants, & Caulk
- Grease
Paper Cans Excel at Product Protection
Paper cans are lined with barrier protection to keep oxygen and moisture out while maintaining the freshness of the contents inside. Sonoco offers low, medium and high barrier coatings inside the paper tube to preserve your products for up to 24 months of shelf-life. For hermetic applications, steel bottoms provide an airtight/gastight seal.
The multiple layers of wound paper create a rigidity that withstands handling, stacking and external pressure while protecting delicate contents from breakage.
Paper Packaging Offers a Sustainable Solution
Paper cans are one of the most sustainable packaging options available today. Our paper tubes are made with 100% recycled fiber – 90% of which is post-consumer. They’re also easily recycled by consumers and compatible with mixed and steel recycling streams. Simply remove any plastic lids and toss the rest into the curbside collection. As both a renewable and reusable resource, paper tubes reduce landfill waste and contribute to a circular economy.
Sonoco Packaging is Certified
Sonoco fully complies with multiple organizations and standards to ensure our products and processes meet accepted quality, sustainability, safety, and more guidelines. These include:
Supply Chain Transparency: Sonoco is committed to sourcing its products ethically and sustainably. Our supply chain team is dedicated to ensuring our processes operate according to our Environmental Policy Standards and Supplier Code of Conduct.
Fiber Certifications: Our paper mills use 100% recycled fiber and many of our global mills are certified by one or more fiber certification programs, including The Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC), Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) and the Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification® (PEFC) Chain of Custody and Due Diligence System Standards.
Food Safety Certifications: Sonoco’s food packaging products are certified by third parties using the Benchmarking Requirements of The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). Facilities that manufacture food packaging are annually certified by the American Institute of Baking (AIB) Consolidated Standards for Food-Contact Packaging Manufacturing Facilities. Our food safety management systems comply with FSSC 22000, including ISO 22000, Good Manufacturing Processes (GMP) and Good Hygiene Practices (GHP) standards.
Make a statement with packaging that stands out from the crowd while harnessing all the features and benefits you need to protect and preserve your products. Visit our Rigid Paper Containers page or reach out to an expert to learn more about how our solutions can benefit your business. Let’s work together to create the perfect packaging solution for you!
