Are your retail displays ready for selling season?

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If you’re a merchant, you’re probably getting ready for this year’s selling season.

Selling season, October through December, is when consumers will hand billions of dollars over to merchants. It’s the one season every merchant pays particular attention to.

Merchants focus on three things: 1) products, 2) packaging, and 3) displays.

A merchant may have a great product, but if the packaging or display doesn’t represent the product well, it won’t sell.

The best retail stores, both brick and mortar and  online retailers, aim to impress each customer with fresh display ideas and packaging they feel proud to hold.

Litho display poles are one of our products that help merchants make selling season a success! Litho display poles often go unnoticed, but only if you’re not supposed to see it. Structurally, display poles are made just like paper towel tubes and wrapping paper tubes, only stronger. Read more…

Carpet Cores and Star Crimped Inserts

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What’s the difference between a “core” and a “tube”?

Paper cores and paper tubes are structurally the same, how each is used determines what it’s called. A paper tube is called a “core” when something is wrapped or wound around it. Think of a roll of tape, paper towels, or holiday wrapping paper – these are all products wrapped around a paper core. A paper tube is called a “tube” when something is put inside of it. Think of posters, cosmetics, and Pringles – these products are all packaged inside of a paper tube.

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How to ship posters?

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Let’s assume you’re just starting your poster company and that you are the one who will be purchasing the supplies, packing everything, and shipping the posters yourself. And keep in mind that “poster tubes” is just another name for “mailing tubes”, “shipping tubes”, “cardboard tubes”, and “paper tubes.” Referring to a “paper tube” as a “poster tube” is just a more specific way of referring to it.

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4 Steps to Make a Paper Tube

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Have you ever seen the television show How It’s Made? If you find yourself wondering how things are put together, assembled, or used, you may find it interesting. The format is simple – take a few cameras into a manufacturing facility and capture each step of the process. By showing viewers the manufacturing process, questions are answered before they need to be asked.

The same is true with spiral paper tubes. The more our customers understand about how spiral paper tubes are made, the better service we can provide. Read more…

Litho Display Poles – Temporary Floor Displays

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Some of the most common floor displays are temporary floor displays. Temporary floor displays are seasonal and used to promote products for a short period of time. To help keep costs down on temporary floor displays, they are often made with cardboard or paper.

Floor displays are often seen in the lobbies and halls of movie theaters as well as retail stores. The type of floor displays we specialize in utilize what is referred to as a litho display pole. Litho display poles are cardboard tubes with a .125 inch wall thickness – this is the standard wall thickness for paper tubes used as display poles.

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Los Angeles Tape Cores and Label Cores

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We’re offering a variety of tape and label cores online!

After receiving requests from customers who needed cores faster, we launched our store in October 2013 to do just that. A year and a half later, we’re offering ninety different length options. All cores available through our online store have a 3 inch inside diameter and a .125 inch wall thickness — the most common inside diameter and wall thickness for tape and label cores.

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Are small paper tubes really that small?

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Over the last few months, we’ve been having more and more conversations with customers about our small paper tubes.

Cardboard tube manufacturers usually like to make a lot of tubes in the shortest amount of time. We do too. But small paper tubes aren’t like all the rest. For example, the most common paper tube diameter is 3 inches. We can make truckloads of paper tubes with a 3 inch diameter in a relatively short period of time. Small paper tubes, on the other hand, much require more attention.

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Real reviews from real customers

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We’re a growing company. We have come a long way from the 1949 days of creating Invoices with a pencil and paper and “snail mailing” them out to clients.

We like technology here at Spiral Paper Tube and try to incorporate what makes the most sense for our paper tube manufacturing business.

Thanks to the Internet, customers needing our products are able to find us simply by using a search engine…gone are the days of the big, heavy yellow pages. Because of this, we are continually meeting new people and are able to work with new customers. In ongoing conversations with newer clients, when asked what we can do to improve our service, the feedback is consistent:

 

Give us reviews to read so we can see what your other customers are saying. We found you online, so we don’t know you, but if we were able to read some reviews, we would be more inclined to trust you with our business.

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Every Good Mailing Tube Must Come To An End

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End Closures are the crux components at the ends of mailing tubes, paper canisters, paper cores, shipping tubes, and donation cans.

Depending on how End Closures are used, they are often called different names and made of different materials – plastic, paper, and metal are the three most common materials.

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