Plastic Cores, Tubes & Textile Carriers
Sonoco has manufactured high-performance plastic tubes, cores, and textile carriers for more than a half-century, bringing a wealth of expertise to every project. Building on this experience and knowledge, we are now the world’s leading manufacturer of plastic tubes and cores for the textile and film industries.
Plastic Textile Cores That Carry the Day
In the textile industry, consistency is everything. As a trusted industry supplier since 1899, Sonoco consistently delivers textile carriers of the highest quality to the world's leading knitters and weavers. Designed to precise dimensions and durable enough to maintain superior performance if reused, Sonoco plastic textile cores remain uniform and stable under load and provide optimized surface finishes for even tension and tail control.
Perpetually in pursuit of novel ideas, innovative new products, and better ways of doing things, Sonoco has earned a reputation as the industry’s leading provider of high-value plastic carriers. Our broad range of plastic cores are made according to DIN ISO 368 standards and meet manufacturer specifications for different types of machinery. Delivering superior string-up performance on both traditional and state-of-the-art winding equipment, our textile cores consistently improve string-up efficiencies to the 99th percentile range.
All Sonoco textile carriers are made from the finest quality plastics and engineered for tight tolerance and high-speed winding. To further improve the efficiency of your systems, we offer a variety of custom designs, specialized printing options, grooves, notches and other surface treatments.
Plastic Film Winding Cores for Today’s High Winding Speeds
Our customers rely on Sonoco extruded 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:
- Dust- and moisture-free performance in clean environments
- Customer-specified lengths and winding speeds
- Superior crush resistance
- Excellent TIR control
- Minimum quality variation
- Exceptional surface smoothness
- Reusability and reclamation
Sonoco plastic cores offer high-value options for packaging, protection, and reuse.
Plastic Textile Carriers Product Sheets
- Plastic Textile Carriers Product Sheets
- Single Head Spools
- Rigid Dye Tubes
- Open End Spinning Cylinders
- Compressible Dye Springs