
TEXTILE CORES
Pioneering new product development for man-made fibre yarn producers.
Our products enable producers to maximise string-up efficiency and increase productivity, all with flexible and just-in-time (JIT) delivery.
Core Solutions
Sonoco Alcore offers a range of textile cores to suit your product requirements.
Select one of our three key textile core products to learn more about their specifications and the beneifts they offer. Alternatively, click the button below to contact us with any enquiry you might have.

Printex®
PrinTex® has been designed to help ease the pressures experienced by textile producers.
Whilst at the same time meeting their needs in terms of performance and value.

Intellitexcore™
Textile tube Identification technology from Sonoco.
Alcore is a breakthrough, embedded core technology that enables automatic Textile tube inventory.

Hi-Radius Cores
Our revolutionary Hi-Radius core significantly decreases yarn breaks and eliminates the use of plastic caps.
By delivering a core with a higher radius on the unwinding side.

Ecospan®
With EcoSPAN, we have the unique capability to customise the friction performance of the core surface.
To match the unique requirements of your spandex product.
TEXTILE CORES CORES CASE STUDY
Maintaining Minimal Inventory with PrinTex
Our customer, a man-made fibre yarn producer, used a wide variety of cores with various outside ply parchment designs to identify the different yarn and filament types produced for its various customers.
This meant they had to keep over 400 pallets of stock to ensure they had the outside ply designs needed when one of their customers placed an order.
Instead of using various outside ply designs and parchment papers, our PrinTex core has a white outside ply in which we can print a variety of different colours, numbers and symbols. We can also print a variety of designs on the outside of the ply, including letters, numbers, stripes and symbols. Additionally, our production process ensures the ink does not bleed into the yarn. Our customer can maintain minimal inventory-reduced by 85% in this case. We also eliminated the cost of parchment paper.
TEXTILE CORES
Services
We provide a number of textile core services to industry.
Radial Crush Testing
This measuring technique determines the pressure applied to a core by the yarn wound on it.
String-up Efficiency Improvement
Save costs and reduce waste with this critical component of the production process.
Explore more of our paperboard, textile, film and speciality core solutions.
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