Key considerations for choosing tape core manufacturers: How Stell manufactures the best tape cores

When you choose a manufacturer for your tape cores, you must be mindful of several key considerations, to ensure the cores are sustainable, strong, and produced to your exact specifications.  

At Stell, our team has decades of experience in manufacturing cardboard tubes and cores. This means we can meet every consideration, and then some, to create the bespoke tape cores your business needs.  

Discover how we make this happen, and trust Stell to deliver. 

Consideration 1: Durability of Cores 

Tape cores must always remain durable, especially when winding tape onto the cores themselves. 

Stell’s solution: Our cores are extremely durable and created with excellent crush strength. This avoids reel collapse and expensive scrappage in our customers’ down-stream processes. 

Consideration 2: Consistency in core length, diameter, and wall thickness 

Tape cores for your business must remain consistent throughout the production run, across their length, diameter, and wall thickness, to ensure neat and flush edges, no substrate overhang, consistent winding tensions and minimum conversion wrapping or losses.   

Stell’s solution: Our expert team perform rigorous quality checks at all stages of the production line, this ensures orders of any size core have consistent length, diameter, and wall thickness throughout the run. This creates a uniform, and exact order using your specifications.  

Consideration 3: Personalisation and bespoke design requirements 

For some tape products, it is vital that the exact design or personalised branding is included within the designed and produced product. This is essential when the core end-product reaches the market, and assurance that design specifications give visibility and are met. 

Stell’s solution: As part of our services, we can print your logo or branding on your tape cores.  

Consideration 4: Turnaround time 

Tape core conversion is a 24/7 operation, servicing agile and flexible supply chains. You need a tape core manufacturer to be responsive and match the outside-the-norm turnaround times you require.  

Stell’s solution: Our specialist facility in Keighley operates 24/7, so no matter the complexity, we can offer the turnaround time you need.  

Ready to choose Stell as your tape core manufacturer? 

We have over 150 years of experience creating cardboard tubes and cores. With no minimum order necessary, we can provide the bespoke, high-quality solutions you need for your business’ cardboard tape cores.  

Our cores are used across the tape industry, including masking tape, adhesive tapes, reflective tape, double-sided tape and many more.  

Contact our team today for a free quote for your tape core solutions.