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
Enhanced Performance
Offered in both one-time and reusable designs, our plastic textile cones are ideal for cotton, cotton blends, wool, wool blends, and man-made fibers. Learn more about our wide variety of textile cones by downloading the product sheet.
Textile Cones Product Sheet
Proven Quality
Since 1953, Sonoco has offered a range of single head spools to meet customer specification. Our plastic spools come in both standard and heavy walled options—and we also offer color coding rings to reduce the need for large spool inventories. Download the product sheet to find the base diameter and barrel length that fits your specific application.
Single Head Spools Product Sheet
Consistent Dimensions
rigid plastic dye tubes are injection molded and suitable for automated spinning and dyeing equipment. Sonoco also offers a variety of dye tube separators. Download the product sheet for details and sizes.
Rigid Dye Tubes Product Sheet
Increase Efficiencies
Our high-performing open end spinning cylinders can improve manufacturing efficiencies and offer environmental benefits. The reusable cylinders are the result of a specialized plastic molding process. To learn more about our open end spinning cylinders, download the product sheet.
Open End Spinning Cylinders Product Sheet
Greater Capacity
Sonoco’s full line of innovative compressible plastic dye springs can increase dye vat production capacity by up to 100%. The patented dye springs combine the best features of both compressible springs and rigid tubes. The result is a superior compressible dye spring dor designed for various dye spindles. Download the product sheet to explore available sizing and other product details.