Packaging creates an immediate impression on consumers. High quality graphics and labeling speak to the quality of your product. Functional packaging features such as telescoping designs can also make an additional statement when your product is initially opened by consumers. These considerations, along with private labeling can take your sales to the next level.
Private Label Packaging Tubes
November 8th, 2011Custom Cardboard Cores
November 1st, 2011
Although many of our customers associate Custom Paper Tubes with POP packaging applications, we also manufacture cardboard cores for industrial and commercial purposes. Many of these projects involve creating tubes with specific characteristics such as notches, holes, or special materials. Our manufacturing capabilities allow us produce durable custom cores in a wide variety of sizes, colors and configurations.
This case study features an international geological survey company that needed a strong cardboard core for their sensitive recording paper rolls. The core needed to be durable, color coded red, and have precisely placed slots on either end of the tube to match their machine. Our in-house design specialist incorporated all required features to meet our customer’s needs. The finished product features a spiral wound tube, with a red outer wrap, and two slots to hold the tube securely in place. Read the rest of this entry »
Phenolic Paper Tubes
October 28th, 2011
Phenolic Paper Tubes
The aerospace industry is known for critical specifications requiring a high degree of customization. As a result, these companies often struggle to find suitable vendors. These factors led Air Components, a West Coast aircraft parts supplier, to contact Custom Paper Tubes. Custom Paper Tubes specializes in providing tubes that meet critical material and dimensional requirements
Air Components struggled to find a source of custom phenolic paper tubes for an electrical application. Their application called for strong and waterproof paper tubes manufactured to tight tolerances. Cutouts were required for the parts to fit properly and each tube needed a printed part number for proper identification. Our team worked with the customer to design a finished paper tube that was phenolic impregnated for strength and moisture resistance, then notched per their drawing. Our manufacturing processes allow complex parts, such as these, to be produced with precision tolerances and low volumes economically. Read the rest of this entry »
Sustainable Food Grade Packaging
October 14th, 2011
Interest in Eco Friendly, sustainable packaging is on the rise as manufacturers and consumers are searching for new ways to become better stewards of the environment. Manufacturers are embracing green packaging in response to consumer demand for products featuring sustainable packaging. Many consumers now see Earth Friendly Packaging as a means of differentiation between similar brands. Savvy shoppers are looking to reduce household contributions to landfills, and as a result, they are rewarding manufacturers that demonstrate a commitment to sustainability.
Green packaging is also having a positive impact on sales revenue. In some parts of the retail world, going green can mean the difference between your products lingering on the shelf and getting added to the cart. Sustainable packaging is particularly popular with trendy retailers such as Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods. Read the rest of this entry »
Shaker Top Packaging
October 11th, 2011
Manufacturers of cosmetics and personal care products have long relied on Custom Paper Tubes for their packaging needs. Our years of experience and breadth of packaging product offerings has made CPT a preferred vendor to the cosmetics industry.
When Elizabeth Arden took over the Juicy Couture line from Liz Claiborne, they updated their talc shaker graphics. Custom Paper Tubes provides Talc Shakers in two sizes with matching color coordinated tops and bottoms. Read the rest of this entry »
Three Piece Telescoping Cardboard Tubes for Point of Purchase Packaging
September 8th, 2011
Three Piece Telescoping Tube
Custom Paper Tubes designs and manufactures specialty packaging for a wide range of retail applications. Multiple closures and construction options combined with a wide range of available sizes allows Custom Paper Tubes to meet all of your custom retail packaging needs. Point of Purchase Packaging serves two distinct purposes in retail environments: creating an image that reinforces the notion of brand, quality, and value while preventing product damage. Read the rest of this entry »
Environmentally Friendly Food Grade Canister Packaging
August 17th, 2011
Environmentally Friendly Food Grade Canister Packaging
A tea supplier needed a recyclable Eco Friendly package for their new premium tea. This all paper canister features a food grade liner, curl and disc paper ends, and an environmentally friendly soy based ink label using our three piece telescope design. Made from 100% recycled paper, using 60-90% post consumer waste, the recycled fibers that are used to manufacture this paper canister helps to maintain the sustainability of the Earth. Best of all, this food grade cardboard tube contains no metal, plastic, or mixed materials, making it 100% recyclable.
At Custom Paper Tubes, we believe that an environmentally sensitive approach can go hand-in-hand with eye-catching, custom retail packaging that protects your products and helps it fly off the shelves. Read the rest of this entry »
Three Piece Telescoping Paper Tube with Barrier Liner and Shaker Top
August 17th, 2011
Telescoping Paper Tube with Barrier Liner and Shaker Top
Our customer from the personal care industry needed a small quantity of unique talc shakers for her line of specialty powders. Working together with our package design specialist, she created a talc shaker canister based upon our three piece telescope design. By applying her own labels, she is able to accommodate multiple scents using the same canister and keep costs to a minimum.
Customers with larger volume paper tube requirements can still take advantage of our packaging design team’s expertise to create a complete graphic presentation. When customers submit original art work files, we can produce, print, and apply labels to cardboard canisters, providing complete, turnkey packaging solutions. A packaging design expert from Custom Paper Tubes can help you choose from parchment, foil, and food grade barrier liners and our available shaker top sizes for your specific application. Need a sample to get the process started? Simply contact us to request a no-obligation Luxury Packaging Sample Kit, or send an RFQ and we will be happy to discuss your custom retail packaging needs.
Military Applications for Cardboard Tubes
August 17th, 2011Since 1979, Custom Paper Tubes has earned a reputation as an industry leader manufacturing custom cardboard tube packaging and related products for a diverse range of markets ranging from gourmet food and cosmetics to disposable cardboard mouthpieces and bee nesting tubes. The versatility and custom manufacturing capabilities that have won over many of our “traditional, retail oriented” packaging customers are the same qualities that initially attracted the attention of design engineers at the U.S. Army. This post describes cardboard tubes developed in conjunction with the military to prepare U.S. troops for deployment and to protect soldiers while in harm’s way. Read the rest of this entry »
Food Grade Cardboard Canister Packaging
May 18th, 2011
Since 1979, Custom Paper Tubes has been creating round cardboard packaging for the food and retail markets, so it came as no surprise when a high profile restaurant contacted us about their packaging needs.
Serendipity 3 is a famous New York City restaurant featuring delicious deserts and it is a well known eatery where you are likely to see famous celebrities and politicians at any time. Their FRRRozen Hot Chocolate mix is so delicious, they decided to package it and sell it so people could enjoy the product without having to travel to NYC. Read the rest of this entry »
