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Plastic Cores, Custom Endwalls & Core Plugs
Sonoco’s plastic cores, custom endwalls, and core plugs offer exceptional dimensional stability and superior strength to protect your products during transport and storage.
Uncompromising Protection & Performance
The dimensional stability and strength of our plastic core plugs and endwalls protect rolls and prevent fallout that damages both product and productivity. Available in many standard sizes, our plastic cores and endwalls can be custom made for your specific requirements.
Plastic Film Winding Cores for Today’s High Winding Speeds
Our customers in window film, PVB safety glass film, paint protection film, geomembrane film, flexible film, medical grade and electronics films rely on Sonoco extruded and injection molded plastic cores and tubes for their strength, durability, and dimensional consistency. Our high-performance plastic cores feature a range of surface qualities and characteristics engineered to minimize surface markings and improve winding and unwinding. As winding speeds increase, our expertly designed cores dissipate radial pressures, protect internal diameter integrity, and reduce growth of core length. This helps improve manufacturing processes and reduce costs from waste.
Leading manufacturers trust the consistent, reliable performance of Sonoco plastic cores to protect their delicate, sensitive films. Made from durable, stable plastics, including polypropylene, styrene, ethylene and ABS, our QS 2000 high-end film cores deliver a wide array of benefits, including:
- 3”-6” diameter
- Dust- and moisture-free performance in clean environments
- Customer-specified lengths and winding speeds
- Superior crush resistance
- Excellent TIR control - straightness
- Excellent ovality control - Precise roundness
- Minimum quality variation
- Exceptional surface smoothness
- Reusability and reclamation
Sonoco plastic cores offer high-value options for packaging, protection, and reuse.
Plastic Endwall & Core Plug Product Descriptions
- Plastic Endwall Packaging System
- Injection-Molded Plastic Plugs
Plastic Endwall Packaging System
Sonoco plastic endwalls offer an alternative to traditional plywood and corrugated endwall structures used to suspend very large rolls of product on pallets.
Plastic Endwall Features & Benefits
- Improve roll and coil stackability
- Offer unparalleled hub and stacking strength
- Durable polystyrene construction resists damage
- Reusable and recyclable
Applications
Our plastic endwalls are ideal for cleanroom and foodservice environments as well as for foil, paper, and sensitive film applications that are particularly susceptible to damage—including flexible electronics or solar film. They also protect products such as TVs and battery separators.
Injection-Molded Plastic Plugs
Keep it simple. That’s what Sonoco had in mind for customers when we created our injection-molded plastic plugs.
Sonoco’s plastic plugs are designed to complement our broad range of fiber, plastic, and composite cores used for winding film, paper, textiles, foil, tape, and specialty products and provide the exceptional quality customers have come to expect from our products.
Businesses can rely on Sonoco for both plastic cores and plugs—along with responsive customer service and support—eliminating the hassle of dealing with multiple suppliers. The end result is a customer-friendly plastic packaging solution that meets your needs and provides simplicity in purchasing and inventory management.
Plastic Plug Features & Benefits
- Suspension pad plugs for various IDs
- Center bore ranging from 1.05” to 3”
- Core plugs for 3” and 6” IDs
- Light to heavy-duty loads
- Single or double plug design
- Made from both recycled and virgin plastic
- With and without flanges
- Under- or oversized plugs available for a loose or snug fit
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