Tubes & Cores

Waste not, want not.

Cores designed for winding or unwinding films, foils or other expensive products. 

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

Interested in minimizing waste?

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.

Intentional solutions, centuries in the making.

If you’re producing large volumes of tapes or labels or converting large coils of aluminum or steel – the type of packaging matters, down to the core. Our specialized team can help you select the right core for your cause.

Large-scale manufacturers for things like tape and other high value products have relied on Sonoco Specialty Cores to safely transport goods from point A to point B for over a century.

Quality & performance are a part of our fabric.

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.

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, non-woven and specialty grades of paper.

• Pulp Non-Woven Cores
• Paperboard Cores
• Towel and Tissue Cores
• Newsprint Cores
• Metal Core Ends
• Pre-Cut Cores

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.