Whether you're in North or South America, Europe, Africa or the Middle East, or Australia and New Zealand, our experts are available to assist with designing the best product for use in a wide variety of applications.
Film
Cores designed for winding or unwinding films, foils or other expensive products.
Sonoco's fiber and plastic high-performance film cores feature a range of surface qualities and characteristics designed to minimize surface markings and improve winding and unwinding characteristics, optimizing performance. As winding speeds increase, our expertly designed cores dissipate radial pressures, protect internal diameter integrity and reduce core length growth, helping manufacturers improve manufacturing processes and reduce costs from waste.
Tape & Label
Sonoco offers more than cores designed for tape and label manufacturers.
Sonoco’s total systems approach includes a needs assessment by our packaging specialists; testing and quality assurance, where cores are tested repeatedly for dimensional consistency and wall strength; personalization for additional visibility of your company name and logo; and service after the sale, where technical specialists work to troubleshoot potential problems.
Superior manufacturing processes and graphics ensure that our cores also offer the highest in quality, performing under the toughest packaging demands.
Textiles
Delivering high-value packaging and services to the textile industry for over 115 years.
As the leading supplier to the textile industry since our beginning in 1899, Sonoco continues our commitment to making tubes and cores for carpet, carpet yarn, cloth, draw-textured yarn and fiber production.
With innovative new products and process innovations, we have earned a reputation as the leading high-value packaging and services provider to the textile industry.
We engineer and produce the highest quality tubes for the production, storage, distribution and end-use of textiles. Our textile tubes are engineered to meet customer demands for consistency, performance, value and today’s faster winding speeds. We can also improve the efficiency of customer systems with features such as special surface treatments, grooves and notches.
Construction
Sonotube® concrete forms stand strong as the most economical way to create round columns for buildings, entryways, structural columns, light posts and other commercial and residential structures. Our Sonotube suite of tubes and cores are rounded out with Sonotube Finish Free® concrete tubes, which produce exceptionally smooth columns that require no manual finishing, and Builder’s Tubes®, versatile and easy-to-use tubes perfect for the do-it-yourselfer working on projects like decks and fences.
Plastic
Many of our customers rely on us for the plastic cores that protect their investments in delicate, sensitive films. Manufactured from durable, stable plastics, including polypropylene, styrene, ethylene and ABS, our QS® 2000 high-end film cores are designed to deliver a greater array of product protection and packaging benefits, including:
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No matter what type of tape you produce, our extruded plastic tape cores provide superior dimensional tolerance and stability, as well as the release characteristics you need. Choose from polyethylene or polystyrene in lengths cut to your specifications.
Sonoco is a worldwide known manufacturer of textile plastic carriers. With more than 45 years of experience, we are a reliable supplier and partner for the textile world. We offer a broad range of textile plastic carriers according to DIN ISO 368, and follow machine manufacturer specifications. All carriers are produced of high-quality plastics with tight tolerance and are engineered to meet requirements for high-speed winding.
Setting the standard for paper mill packaging performance.
Sonoco provides a complete line of quality products and services tailored specifically to the exacting needs of printing and writing, newsprint, tissue, paperboard (bleached and unbleached), pulp, nonwoven and specialty grades of paper.
Why live with the downtime and scrap of core chewout if you don’t have to? Our new T2 technology enhanced cores protect against:
• Loss of Productivity
• High scrap
• Safety issues
• Machine downtime
• Profit loss
Much of the paperboard used to make Sonoco's fiber cores is from used tubes and cores recovered from customers, and is 100% recyclable.
With our Intellicore roll tracking system, using the world's first radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled cores, customers can automatically identify, track and locate their products at any point in the supply chain.
Sonoco’s patented radial crush tester measures the radial strength of paper cores by simulating the pressures applied during the winding processes of rolled products such as plastic films and textiles.
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