About Paper Tubes and Paper Tube Manufacturers
Including: Cardboard
Tubes,
Shipping
Tubes, Coin
Bank, Mailing
Tubes, Paper
Cores & Sonotube
Paper tubes, also referred to as cardboard
tubes, are wood pulp products wound into cylindrical shapes. Often mixed
and multi-layered with adhesives, paper tubes and cardboard
tubes can have much greater strength than cardboard or plastic boxes, and
many industries have found paper tubes to be a cost-effective solution for
storing, shipping, mailing,
manufacturing and distributing. Automotive industries use paper tubes as stud
protectors, bearing packaging, flare tubes and shaft protectors; electronics
industries use them for fuse tubes and wire insulators, while food industries
use foil or wax-lined paper tubes as sifter cans for parmesan cheese, coffee,
spices, mixed nuts, chips and other perishables. Other common industrial uses
for paper tubes include fireworks canisters and rocket bodies; poster, blueprint
and print containers; point of purchase displays for consumer items; caulking
and greasing tube dispensers; telescopic cans; containers for fragile or hazardous
materials for labs and medical fields; coin
banks for non-profit fundraising, and paper
cores for winding electrical, fabric, adhesive, paper and converting products.
Contractors and construction industries use large, highly durable cardboard
tubes called sonotubes for concrete pillar forming.
Many different kinds of paper tubes are manufactured for very different uses.
Paper tubes are made from wood pulp bases including fiberboard, paperboard,
Kraft paper and paper-adhesive composites; many of these harder paper-based
materials are generically considered cardboard.
The wood pulp materials are spiral-wound for tensile strength and often contain
multiple layers mixed with adhesives for additional strength. Manufactured
to a range of thicknesses, paper tubes for military and electrical applications
are sometimes coated or lined in wax for temperature and moisture resistance.
Metal foil and Kraft paper provide a good outer surface for decoration, printing
and labeling. Most food-grade tube products are foil-lined for product freshness.
Some electrical and military industries use tubes made from vulcanized "fish" paper,
which is a cotton rag-based paper resistant to rough abrasion, tearing and
temperatures up to 2211/4F/1051/4C; fish paper is blue in color and is used
for bonding and electrical insulation. Electrical grade Kraft paper can withstand
temperatures up to 1941/4F/901/4C and offers excellent nonconductive strength.
Tubes are sometimes lined with materials such as metal sheeting, plastic,
rubber and glass. Sonotubes are
often lined with a thin layer of plastic to create a smooth molded contour,
and medical and biochemical items are usually shipped in
metal-lined tubes for sanitation and handler protection. Coin
banks, fireworks cases, point of purchase displays and some mailing
tubes are coated in foil or Kraft paper and screen printed with product information.
Paper tubes which are used as containers are closed on one or both ends by
tin caps, wooden caps, plastic plugs, crimped ends, snap-folding ends, screw
tops or telescopic-type closures.
Paper tubes are manufactured from recycled paper and can be recycled over
again, making them a cost-efficient alternative to metal, plastic, glass
and wood. Not only are paper tubes cost-effective, but they also rival plastic
and metal tubes in strength-to-weight ratio, making them a perfect solution
for mailing, shipping, storing and distributing almost any material. Difficult
to dent in cylindrical shape and almost impossible to break, mailing and
shipping tubes offer superior protection from drops, dents and rough handling.
Cardboard is a porous material, making it possible for electrical insulation
tubes to absorb damaging moisture, preventing shorts, while paper mailing
tubes help keep valuable posters and prints dry and paper food canisters
keep spices and powders from clumping with moisture. Tough, flexible, and
renewable, paper tubes are a great commercial and industrial solution.
Types of Paper Tubes
- are any
tubes made from spiral wound cardboard material. They serve
many purposes from cores for various products to storage containers
and shipping purposes.
- is a small paper tube used to hold specific monetary amounts of coins of the same denomination.
- are tubes made from composite paperboard, which
is a layer of fluted material sandwiched between two layers of linerboard.
- are tubes made from fiberboard
and can be used for individual roll storage, to protect sensitive
fabrics from crushing, to separate
secure small lots, to provide a location for return goods and to make "bottom" rolls
accessible when an entire roll is not cut.
- are cardboard tubes that paper products are rolled up into for compact shipping that does not bend or crease the material being shipped.
- ,
also called mailing tubes, are tubes, potentially having graphic advertisements
printed on them, which are used for the express
purpose of shipping items that fit conveniently in a tube. End cap
materials include wood, metal or paper.
- is a large, water-resistant cylinder paper form used in concrete pouring applications.
- are tubes
that are typically spiral wound and used for any material that requires
a center, including such things as paper
towels, fax paper rolls, tape and film products.
- are
composite containers typically made from paperboard material with an
inner liner that provides a
protective barrier. Thicknesses
and sizes vary, as do types of closures and label options.
- have
longer cores.
Common Terms Related To Paper Tubes
- A package comprised
of a body with two ends made from a variety of materials and available
in many shapes and sizes. The container bodies are paper tubes and various
liner materials to achieve barrier requirements and a printed label for
package graphics of paper tubes.
- The fluted
middle portion of a corrugated boxes or paper tubes that are made from paperboard
and typically produced on a Fourdrinier
machine as a single layer, using varying combinations of virgin and recycled
fibers.
- The paperboard produced from recycled fibers
on a cylinder machine consisting of multiple plies that are bonded together
in the papermaking process.
- Rigid metal caps,
film caps, plastic caps, paper caps or paper structures that are mechanically attached to the
end of a package or a layered plastic
film, foil or paper membrane heat-sealed to the end of a rigid package.
- Paper tubes,
Cardboard Tubes, and cores of paper or plastic that
serve as product carriers for film tubes, paper tubes, tape tubes, textile
tubes, metal tubes and
more. The carrier tubes are highly engineered to permit take-up of these
materials at extreme speeds.
- A composite material made from compressed wood fibers
and glue.
- A machine divided into a wet end, a press
section, a drier section and, typically but not always a
calendar section that is employed in the manufacture of all grades of
paper tubes and board.
tube - A coarse paper made from a type of chemical wood
pulp, whose color is dark brown but may be bleached to lighter shades
of cream. Taking its name from the German word for strong this
paper is typically used for wrapping and packaging.
- The core elongated mold around which resin-impregnated
fiber, paper, fabric, tape or filaments are wound to form pipes, tubes
or structural shell shapes.
- A flexible material attached to the end of a
rigid package with a peelable heat seal. This material can be a
coax plastic film or a layering of plastic film, foil or paper with a
heat-seal coating.
- A subdivision of paper that is generally heavier in
basis weight, thicker and more rigid than paper. All sheets of 12 points
(0.012) or more in thickness are considered paperboard with some
exceptions, such as blotting papers, felts and drawing paper in excess
of 12 points, while some corrugating medium, chipboard and linerboard
of less than 12 points are still categorized as paperboard.
- Paper and paper derivatives separated, removed
or diverted from solid waste disposal for the purpose of sale, use, reuse
or recycling, whether or not such material necessitates further separation
and processing.
- The process in which cut ribbon of cardboard,
coated with adhesive is wrapped in a helix pattern around a set round
mandrel to produce spiral wound paper tubes. It's done at
an angle that will produce a continual flow of product that can be cut
to any specification.