Meet the demands of pulp, tissue, paperboard and other specialty paper grade applications with Sonoco’s 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.
Designed for today's high-speed corrugators and automated core cutters, SONARIS™ Containerboard Cores deliver the performance manufacturers need to keep production moving. Engineered for enhanced straightness, dimensional stability and torque transmission, SONARIS™ helps reduce downtime, improve runnability and keep production moving.
Improve runnability, productivity and safety during core-cutting and converting. Sonoco works with machine manufacturers to create proper containerboard core designs that deliver the straightness needed on new faster, more automated equipment. Preventing costly core chewout, slippage, failure and loss of web tension control, our Torque Transmission or T2 enhanced cores:
Match your specific strength and performance needs. Sonoco designs shrink film cores to eliminate radial pressure and protect the internal diameter integrity, protecting from chewout, core length growth and other damage. Designed for efficient winding and unwinding, our cores streamline your manufacturing process and decrease manual labor costs.
Reduce costs with a full range of customizable cores. Designed for unique applications, Sonoco’s paperboard cores provide high-quality solutions for linerboard and bleached board applications.
Improve operations with tissue and towel cores known for consistent quality. Sonoco engineers cores with proprietary paperboards, adhesives and coatings to carry products during converting. With the ability and industry knowledge to customize unique features, we design a complete range of cores from high performance, large-diameter, reusable parent cores to small, cost-efficient, lightweight cores.
To support your processes, specifications, characteristics and performance criteria, we offer services and conduct regular audits that include:
Decrease your total costs with Sonoco. We produce quality cores for rolled pulp and nonwoven materials. With a range of core sizes and features, we design pulp and nonwoven products to meet your specific application and decrease costs.
Combine exceptional experience and technology with Sonoco. We produce cores for newsprint and direct grade applications with a variety of special end finishing options—metal ends, metal inserts, notching and beveled cores.
Match your printing and writing grade core application needs with Sonoco’s graphic paper core solutions. We design our products for high-speed rotogravure, offset printing presses and other high-performance applications. Our industry experts engineer solutions for your specific application needs, including sheeter cores for internal and external cut-size operations.
Enjoy the full-service value of Sonoco’s dedicated technical resources for the pulp and paper industry. We develop efficient products by working with equipment manufacturers and utilizing our development and testing capabilities that include:
Working closely with your customers, we support optimal performance, productivity and quality, and help solve issues as they happen with technical services like scrap reduction, wrap line audits, heat platen manufacturing and repair services, vendor managed inventory and advanced troubleshooting.