PAPER CONVERTING BLOG

For tube and core manufacturers, alignment and precision are key in producing a great product. But what if your paper components aren’t getting along? There’s no way around a tube or core that isn’t adhered correctly. Before you throw out your adhesive, consider if your paper components are the problem first.

As a paper converting company specializing in slitting, sheeting, flexographic printing, coating, laminating and custom printing, everything we do involves paper. It’s our passion to exceed our client's expectations with regard to quality. But, we can't convert paper without great quality paper to start with.

Recently, Oren International worked with a large, independent tube and core manufacturer in the Southeast to improve and simplify their printing and production process. Here’s a look at how we turned their messy problem into a simple and cost-effective solution.

Many companies have a budget that expires at the end of the year, and managing that budget can be tricky. The balance between saving enough money for emergencies and spending enough money appropriately can be a challenge for any organization. If you don’t spend your budget by the end of the year, your company could run the risk of losing the same allocation of funds next year. 

With their strength and versatility, the uses for tubes and cores are boundless. From product and shipping containers, rolled artwork or documents to tape and industrial uses, tubes and cores are an important aspect of packaging, shipping and storing many products. 

As many tube and core manufacturers know, the success of tube and core products largely depends on the quality of the paper and processes used to create it. Because tubes and cores are essential for many industrial and commercial uses, including tape rolls, paper rolls or sustainable alternatives to plastic products, they require a high level of durability and design. 

At Oren, we produce exceptional paper that is specially designed for our tube and core manufacturers to use for a variety of industries. Not only do we offer standard paper for tube and core manufacturing, we offer custom slitting and printing of linerboard. 

Multiwall paper bags are often used as shipping and storage containers for bulk materials. In many cases, design and production artists can create and adapt multiwall bags that work for your specific needs, from a utility approach that simply identifies your product, to the more difficult task of grabbing the consumer’s attention at the point of sale.  There are two basic designs of bags:  open mouth bags and valve bags, and variations thereof.

Reaching far beyond their traditional uses such as packaging and shipping, paper tubes and cores have proven to be quite versatile because of the many ways in which they can be used.  But when we think “tubes and cores”, the obvious uses come to mind.  Perhaps the most popular and prevalent is the white or brown mailing tube with plastic end caps. Some very popular everyday household cores would include toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, gift wrap and tape and label cores. If you’re tuned in to the industrial world, you’ve surely seen tubes and cores of carpet, cloth, wovens, yarn, spools of wire, rope and cords. 

At Oren, we produce a multitude of paper products and paper components. Two words you are likely to hear, often used in the same sentence, are “tubes” and “cores”. Paper cores and tubes are often a cost efficient alternative to other more expensive materials such as plastic, metal, and wood.  While these related items are similar in shape and use, they do have certain features, both in design and technical composition that distinguish one from the other.