What’s a “gap seam” on a spiral paper tube? Not all spiral paper tubes are made the same, and sometimes their features, though obvious to us, are invisible to the untrained eye. The three most common types of seams on a spiral paper tube are “overlap”, “butted” and “gap”.In this example, the gap seam is featured. Look at where the paper meets itself, or comes close to meeting in this case. This is the seam. Anytime you see a spiral paper tube with a small gap in the seam, that is known as a gap seam. |
Made in Los Angeles. Ship Nationwide.Over the past 10-15 years, many American manufacturers have moved their operations over seas. Not us. We’re still here in Los Angeles. We saw firsthand the importance of domestic manufacturing during the pandemic, particularly when scores of cargo ships were stuck off the coast of Southern California, unable to enter the Los Angeles port or Long Beach port. Southern California businesses struggled to get the materials they needed, including paper tubes and paper cores. As a local packaging manufacturer, we’re proud to be able to provide uninterrupted service to our clients. |
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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. |
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Made in America. Made in Los Angeles. Over the past 10 years, California manufacturing has become nearly nonexistent.Many businesses that were started by the Greatest Generation have gone out of business, moved out of California, or moved their operations off shore. And for good reason. California businesses pay some of the highest taxes in the country. California businesses also have to endure crippling regulations. Most recently, we had to sell a few of our 26 foot bobtail delivery trucks, though they worked just fine, because California outlawed them. Even though Los Angeles is a tough place to run a business, we continue to endure. We adapt, and move forward. We’re proud of our history, and proud that our products are still manufactured here in the Los Angeles area. Over the past seventy years, we’ve expanded our product line, and value the relationship we have with each and every one of our vendors and customers.In 2022, we’re looking forward to solving more packaging and shipping problems, one paper tube at a time. Happy New Year! |
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3 inch diameter tape cores and label cores When it comes to spiral paper tubes, the most common inside diameter is 3 inches. But why?When you order egg bites from Starbucks, the barista peels a sticker off of a roll of stickers, and adheres it to the outside of the paper bag you’re handed. When you’re walking around a convention and get handed a free promotional sticker by one of the vendors, they peel the sticker off of a roll of stickers. When you’re clicking around on eBay and order a cool, rare poster, the seller carefully rolls that poster up and slides it into a poster tube with a 3″ diameter. Tape manufacturers and label manufacturers most often wrap their products around a spiral paper tube with a 3″ diameter. Further down the supply chain, these 3″ diameter paper tubes and paper cores also fit a wide variety of tooling and machinery. For additional product details, visit our product page. |
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Made in the USA Since our first paper tube came off the line in 1949, we’ve been in Los Angeles, California. Now, more than ever, we’re proud to manufacture paper tubes and edge protectors in our own backyard. For the past few months, supply chains around the world have been affected, disrupted, and, for some, have come to a screeching halt. If your supply chain has been disrupted, and you’re looking for an alternate source for Mailing Tubes, Paper Cores, Edge Protectors, Fiber Cans & Telescope Tubes, Concrete Form Tubes, Specialty/Custom Paper Tubes, Litho Display Poles, or Small Paper Tubes, we’re here to help.Call us anytime with the inside diameter, outside diameter, usable length, overall length, thickness, and any other details, and we’ll get you going. Don’t have the specs? No worries. Send us a sample of what you’re currently using – we’ll measure the sample and duplicate it. We’re here for you. |
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Are you ready for Thanksgiving? Life is about family and friends, and Thanksgiving is an opportunity to gather around a meal with the ones we love the most. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we wanted to remind everybody that we’ll be celebrating with our families as well. We’ll be closed Thursday, November 28 and Friday, November 29. We’ll be back in the office on Monday, December 2. We look forward to serving you this holiday season. |
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Yunhee Min & Peter Tolkin, “Red Carpet in C,” at UCR Arts
It’s not always “business as usual” here at Spiral Paper Tube & Core. We recently had the opportunity to work with two greats, Yunhee Min, an artist, and architect Peter Tolkin, both working in collaboration with the University of California, Riverside. Unlike most other custom orders, theirs called for thousands of light blue paper tubes, dark blue paper tubes, bright yellow paper tubes, forest green paper tubes, followed by an array of pinks, reds and oranges…all with a clean, flat white inside liner. In addition to the fluctuating colors, the lengths were just as varied. After numerous intriguing conversations, we felt we had an understanding of their project and began bringing in the custom colored paper. And, truth be told, the colors lit up our factory like never before! Here’s the what the LA Times had to say about their art installation: Inspired by the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who described music as “liquid architecture” and architecture as “frozen music,” Min and Tolkin have created an installation that fills the UCR Arts atrium with an undulating form constructed out of 150-foot bands of fabric and more than 17,000 colored paper tubes.The installation runs through December 29. The opening reception was held September 29 at UC Riverside, 3824 and 3834 Main St., Riverside, ucrarts.ucr.edu.
“Yunhee Min & Peter Tolkin: Red Carpet in C is a collaboration between painter, Yunhee Min, and architect, Peter Tolkin. The idea for this project evolved out of Min and Tolkin’s shared enthusiasm for music, architecture, and color. These interests let them to Goethe who described the relationship between architecture and music as “Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.”Conceived as performative architecture, this large fabric installation functions as both an object to be viewed and a space to be inhabited; a virtual translation of music into three-dimensions. Constructed of fabric and colored paper tubes, its soft, undulating parabolic shape is set in visual relief against the classical proportions, meter, and time signature of Culver Center of the Arts’ historic atrium. Yunhee Min & Peter Tolkin: Red Carpet in C is organized by the Barbara & Art Culver Center of the Arts at UCR ARTS and is co-curated by Tyler Stallings and Zaid Yousef. Yunhee Min & Peter Tolkin: Red Carpet in C has been possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, Spiral Paper Tube & Core, Francine Tolkin Cooper and Herbert Cooper, Susan and Jim Crawford, Clara and Tim Daniels, Freya and Mark Ivener, Avery and Miles McEnery, Marla and Jeffrey Michaels, Laurie and Marc Recordon, Jonathan Tolkin, and Barbara H. Hirsch. UCR’s College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the City of Riverside provide support for UCR ARTS programs.
The team that made possible Red Carpet in C
TOLO Architecture participants include Peter Tolkin, Sarah Lorenzen, Socrates Medina, Karl Kachele, Kare Tonapetyan, Parker Amman, Jeremy Schacht, Trenman Yau, Chelsea Rector, and Karl Blette.
Matthew Melnyk from Nous Engineering
Robert K. Williams from UCR Architects and Engineers
Cal Poly Pomona Architecture (CPP ARC) students included Athenna Ann Lim, Yewon Hong, Romi Ann Grepo, Victor Daniel Macias, Emily To, Cheyenne Capener, Vi Phan, Stephanie Contreras, Stephanie Toro, Chelsea Steiner, Paola Murillo, Karla Vich, Julie Habib, Kenza Abourraja, Karen Venegas, Jose Luis Hernandez, Grace Liu, Rusxanne Londonio, Son Vu, Osvaldo Guiterrez Munoz, Sam Rubio, Sharifeh Diabdallah, Amaris Vasquez, Joseph Nandino, Emily Bandy, William Tan, Emily Ta, and Karla Camarena.
UCR ARTS team included Zaid Yousef, co-curator and exhibition designer, Cody Norris, senior preparator, Tim LeBlanc, assistant preparator, and Grace Saunders, preparator, along with Rene Balingit Jr., Samuel Cantrell, Ivy Son, and Jennifer Rodriguez Trujillo, along with guest co-curator Tyler Stallings.” – UCR Arts
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Summertime packaging tips
The US economy is on the up and up. Manufacturing is increasing. How has that impacted your supply chain? Here are 3 packaging tips to consider this summer:
1. Pay attention to the details on the front endWhen an inexperienced buyer is in a hurry for a custom order, they express a variety of emotions. The more emotions expressed, the fewer details they pay attention to. Have you ever noticed that grumpy people tend to spot every single little problem? Don’t let your client’s emotions distract you. Remain focused on the details: product, style, size, dimensions, color, material, shipping details, and payment terms. If you are going into this order already in a time crunch, the last thing you want is to overlook an important detail, manufacture the order incorrectly, and end up having to make it again. This will only cost you more time and more of your money. If needed, have a coworker double-check the purchase order and details to confirm accuracy. 2. Overestimate the amount of time it will take for your custom order to get deliveredIf you have a product getting ready to go to market, and the packaging is the last component you’re waiting on, give yourself plenty of time. Manufacturing is increasing across the board and, as a result, lead times and turnaround times are getting extended. Budgeting a little extra time on the front end, will help you avoid having to expedite shipments unnecessarily. Sure, you can air freight that LTL shipment, but what does that do to your bottom line? Extra time will also come in handy in case the manufacturer makes a mistake, uses the wrong color, or something as simple as their shipping guy calls out sick the day your shipment is supposed to go out. Manufacturing lead time + shipping time + a little extra time = your best bet 3. Make sure your invoices are paid on timePaying your bills on time is not just the best way to conduct business, it will benefit you in the long run. If your company has terms (an open account) with vendors, but doesn’t pay within the time period agreed upon, you establish a poor business reputation with your vendors. As unsecured creditors, they become hesitant-maybe you’ll pay late again…but maybe you won’t pay at all this time? Make a conscious effort to always pay your bills early or on time. This will help establish a positive, trusting working relationship with vendors. Then, when that time comes when you’re in a hurry, made an internal mistake, or just need a favor, the positive reputation you’ve established and maintained over the years will pay off. Don’t be that person who doesn’t ever seem to pay on time, but always seems to be in a rush or needing something obscure. |
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Made in America. Since 1949.
As you may have already seen, this week is #MadeInAmerica week!As a family owned and operated company, we’re joining the rest of this nation’s manufacturers! Since 1949, the Hibard family has been manufacturing paper packaging products in Los Angeles. We take pride in our products and are proud to say we make everything here in Los Angeles. Here are a few of our most popular products:
Learn more about Spiral Paper Tube & Core’s history here:
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