Cardboard Tube Packaging.

Wall thickness follows what goes inside and how it ships, so we specify it per order rather than from a chart. Lighter walls suit dry goods and cosmetics that only need to hold shape on a shelf. Heavier walls suit glass, gifting and anything shipped without an outer carton.

Tell us the contents and the route to the customer and we set the ply count. Wall thickness is the one specification everything else on the tube follows.

The plies are wound at an angle around a mandrel, so the joins run diagonally and overlap rather than meeting in one straight line. A straight seam is where a tube would split. A spiral overlap spreads that load along the whole body.

It is also why a wound tube stays round under a friction cap. The wall is continuous, so the cap has a consistent surface to grip all the way around.

Yes. The wrap is printed flat, then bonded around the body with a controlled overlap on the seam. Artwork is laid out for the circumference, so a pattern or colour field continues cleanly across the join.

The one thing to plan is where the overlap falls. We place it away from the logo or any fine type, so the seam lands in a quiet area of the design.

Yes, with a food-grade liner on the inside of the wound body. The liner is what makes the tube suitable for contact and what slows moisture moving through the wall.

Tea, coffee, spices, confectionery and dry mixes are all standard applications. Where you need a true freshness seal rather than a container, our paper can format adds a membrane end and a resealable overcap.

An all-fibre build is, as a single item. A wound body, a paper wrap and paperboard caps all go in the same stream, with nothing to separate.

Metal caps and barrier liners change that. Metal caps should be removed before recycling, and a laminated liner can affect how the pack is processed locally. If kerbside recyclability is the priority, specify paperboard caps and skip the liner.

Any diameter and height, wound to the product rather than picked from stock. The common starting points are 2 by 6 inches, 3 by 9 inches and 4 by 12 inches.

Send the product or its measurements and we return a measured spec. A cylinder needs two figures, diameter and height, plus a few millimetres of clearance on the diameter.

300 units per size and design. Two diameters in one order are two lines, each at the 300 minimum.

Runs scale to 100,000 units and beyond, and unit price falls quickly past the first thousand because the wrap print and the winding set-up are shared across the run.

Standard production is 7 to 10 business days from artwork approval, rush is 5 to 7, and a physical sample takes 5 to 7 business days. The clock starts at approval, not at order.

A sample is worth the extra week on a first order because cap fit is far easier to adjust before a run than after one. The sample fee is credited when the production order is placed.