craft tube
Product overview
Craft tube
As environmental destruction caused by plastic waste and global warming prevention become social issues around the world, we are seeing an increasing trend to switch from plastic products to paper products, which are made from renewable organic resources.
Therefore, we have developed paper tubes as one of our measures to reduce the amount of plastic we use.
By using kraft paper for some of the layers in the tube manufacturing process, the amount of petroleum-derived plastic used can be reduced by approximately 20%.
In addition, the tube itself can also be printed using "vegetable oil ink," which uses ingredients derived from food.
This is the first time in the industry that vegetable oil ink has been used on plastic products!
What is vegetable oil ink?
Ink made from recycled oils such as renewable soybean oil, coconut oil, palm oil, linseed oil, and tung oil, as well as recycled waste cooking oil that mainly contains these oils.
Environmental benefits
- Curbing the depletion of natural resources
- Plastic is made from petroleum, a non-renewable resource.
Reducing the amount of plastic used helps reduce oil use.
- renewable resources
- The raw material for paper is wood, a renewable resource that is produced through tree planting and proper forest management.
It is considered a more sustainable material because the raw materials are sustainable resources.
- Preventing global warming
- When plastic is incinerated, carbon dioxide is produced.
Since paper is made from wood, the carbon dioxide emitted during incineration is considered CO2 and helps prevent global warming.
Characteristics of paper tubes
- You can promote your products as environmentally friendly.
- A design that makes use of the warm, natural texture unique to kraft paper
- High gas barrier properties due to the use of EVOH in the layer structure
About product specifications
- Tube body
- Layer structure using kraft paper, PE, and EVOH.
- shoulder area
- PE
- cap
- PP
| Diameter (φ) | shape | Shortest below shoulder | longest below shoulder | Original fabric color | printing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| φ30 | VX type | 65mm | 145mm | Primary colors and white | Silk, offset, HOT stamp, flexo |
| φ35 | VX type | 75mm | 165mm | ||
| φ40 | VX type | 90mm | 170mm | ||
| φ50 | VX type | 110mm | 190mm |
List of displayable marks
For compatible products, we can display the various marks we have acquired on your products. By displaying these marks on your products, you can appeal to the public that they are environmentally friendly.
- Biomass Mark
- (Certified by the Japan Organic Resources Association)
- Vegetable oil ink mark
- (Certified by the Printing Ink Manufacturers Association)
Combination examples
| tube | CAP | Ink |
|---|---|---|
| Craft | Biomass plastics (Screw cap) |
Vegetable oil (offset printing) |
| Craft | Biomass plastics (Screw cap) |
UV ink |
| Craft | plastic | Vegetable oil (offset printing) |
| Craft | plastic | UV ink |
