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Plastic Core Tubes
Our plastic core tubes have proven to be a reliable, key component for many manufacturers, particularly those in the film, tape and cloth industries. Pexco has successfully produced hundreds of thousands of plastic core tubes over the past 40 years. Our plastic core tubes offer a dependable and economical solution to the industry’s need for strong, clean, moisture-resistant plastic core tubing.
Our experienced team has the ability to customize plastic core tubes to meet your particular size, material and length requirement(s). Some of the common plastic core tube sizes extruded at Pexco, made primarily from High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS) or Polyethylene (HDPE) are as follows:
Common Plastic Core Tube Sizes – cut to your specified length(s)
- 1.110″ O.D. x 1.020″ I.D. x .045″ wall thickness
- 2.180″ O.D. x 2.000″ I.D. x .090″ wall thickness
- 3.130″ O.D. x 3.010″ I.D. x .060″ wall thickness
- 3.182″ O.D. x 3.032″ I.D. x .075″ wall thickness
- 3.232″ O.D. x 3.032″ I.D. x .100″ wall thickness
- 3.282″ O.D. x 3.032″ I.D. x .125″ wall thickness
- 3.330″ O.D. x 3.030″ I.D. x .150″ wall thickness
- 3.430″ O.D. x 3.030″ I.D. x .200″ wall thickness
- 3.407″ O.D. x 2.987″ I.D. x .210″ wall thickness
- 6.210″ O.D. x 6.030″ I.D. x .090″ wall thickness
- 6.428″ O.D. x 6.028″ I.D. x .200″ wall thickness
- 6.530″ O.D. x 6.030″ I.D. x .250″ wall thickness
- 6.566″ O.D. x 6.036″ I.D. x .265″ wall thickness
- 6.700″ O.D. x 6.040″ I.D. x .330″ wall thickness
- Your custom O.D. and I.D. (between .250″ to 8″ diameter) cut to your custom lengths
Secondary Services
We offer many secondary services such as notching and punching. We can also add a two-sided adhesive starter tape, if needed, to assist in the holding and winding of film, paper or cloth onto the plastic core tubes.
We have the know-how and ability to manufacture plastic core tubes from almost any thermoplastic material. Our plastic core tubes are the ideal choice for use in some of the following applications:
Plastic Core Tube Applications
- Film
- Tape
- Paper
- Textiles
Technical Specifications
Our production facilities are capable of extruding plastic core tubes within the following parameters:
- Diameters from 1/4″ to 8″
- Wall thickness from 1/32″ to 1/2″
- Lengths from 6″ to 20 Feet
Plastic Core Tubes
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