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There is so much to be grateful for

Life is hard. Managing a family is hard. Running a business is hard. Bad things happen to the ones we love and often times there’s nothing we can do to make it better.

For many of us, we spend as much time around our co-workers as we do our own family.

At Spiral Paper Tube, we’re grateful for it all. Sure, we make paper tubes, but the paper tubes give us the reason to connect with each other. We work together to make a product for somebody else. We work together to provide a solution to somebody’s problem. Some days are better than other, but in the end, we’re in it together.

We’re grateful for the opportunity to not just make a product, but to have a shared reason to connect with so many people.

From our warehouse to yours, Happy Thanksgiving.

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Paper Tubes Aren’t Just For Toilet Paper

It’s that time of year again, and we know that you crafter mom types have been on Pinterest day and night brewing up ideas for your kids costumes.

The toilet paper roll is the paper tube most often used for crafts, but did you know Concrete Form Tubes are a close second?

Concrete Form Tubes are structurally the same as a toilet paper tube – round and made out of paper and glue – but Concrete Form Tubes have a bigger diameter and are much thicker. They’re the perfect size to fit a small kid inside of for the perfect Halloween costume.

The easiest way to get your hands on a Concrete Form Tube is at Home Depot or Lowes. If you’re the crafty type and plan on using a giant paper tube for your kids’ costumes this year, send us your pictures.

Happy Halloween everybody!

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Edge Protectors, Corner Protectors, Corner Guards, or V-Board?

After decades of manufacturing spiral paper tubes and paper cores, we dove into manufacturing v-board. The raw materials are the same, and it just made sense for us to add it to our product line.

Around the office, we call it “v-board” but on our website, we call it “edge protectors”. We all know what we’re talking about, but why do we have two different names for the same product?

Well, it turns out, we’re not alone. From manufacturer to manufacturer, “v-board” might be called “corner protectors”. The exact same product that we might call “v-board” might not be called “v-board” by somebody else.

We’ve learned to work around the challenge of have a product have multiple names, but for the newbie, it couldn’t be more confusing. When somebody googles “corner guards”, looking for the product we make, they might find themselves on a website offering products that will help help new parents “baby proof” their house.

If you’re looking for v-board, corner protectors, corner guards, or edge protectors, just keep at it. You’ll eventually find a supplier of the product you’re actually looking for.

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Made in the USA

After the past several decades, many manufacturers have relocated their businesses from the United States to another country. Cheaper labor and raw materials cost has been the biggest carrot for these businesses. This has not been unique to any one particular industry.

Spiral Paper Tube is different.

Back in 1949, Spiral Paper Tube & Core was started by two brothers. Both grew up poor in Wisconsin during the Great Depression. Great served their country during World War II. Then both moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of the “American dream.”

The Hibard brothers starting manufacturing spiral paper tubes in South Central Los Angeles. The address was 8802 S. Graham, Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90002. For over fifty years, the business was tucked in, near the 110 freeway and 105 freeway interchange (though the 105 freeway wouldn’t come until the 1980s). It was just south of Manchester Avenue, and just west of the Alameda Corridor.

The proverbial carrot entices many businesses to move their operations offshore, but Spiral Paper Tube & Core is committed to continuing its operations in the United States of America.

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I need 3″ tape cores and 3″ label cores…yesterday!

As a manufacturer, we make everything to order. This means we do not keep any tubes, cores, or edge protectors in stock. Distributors keep stock on their warehouse floors and deliver to end users on demand. When a customer sends a Purchase Order and payment, it takes us around 14 days (fewer days for some products) to produce that order, then ship it.

Tape cores and label cores are a bit different.

The most common inside diameter for tape cores and label cores is 3″. The most common wall thickness is .125″. The length, however, varies.

For this reason, we make 3″ ID tape cores and 3″ ID label cores available for purchase directly from our website. No need to send a Purchase Order and wait two weeks.

5 Steps to Order Tape Cores and Label Cores

  1. Visit our website
  2. Select how many boxes you want
  3. Select your preferred UPS service
  4. Complete your order
  5. Receive your cores via UPS

Where do you manufacture?

For the past couple of years, our supply chains have been irregular to say the least.

We used to order parts and components without thinking twice about lead times, let alone availability. That has all changed, and has caused many to ask us where we actually manufacture our paper tubes and edge protectors.

The Answer: We manufacture in the Los Angeles area. Exactly where we’ve been since 1949.

If you are having challenges getting paper tubes and/or edge protectors from your offshore supplier, please consider contacting us.

Save time and money buying from a domestic manufacturer.