Nobody asks what is going in the tube. That is the whole problem.

Why we exist

Tubes get specified on size, colour and cap style, from suppliers who never ask about the formula.

So a serum oxidises in a recyclable tube and the brand blames the formulation. A balm will not come out of a needle orifice, so customers squeeze until the shoulder splits. Sample tubes weep into mailing boxes because the tail seal was set for a body-size tube. And a sustainability claim collapses under audit because the fifty-percent PCR figure covered the body and not the cap.

The orifice is chosen for the viscosity

This is the second most common failure and the easiest to prevent. A thin serum through a wide orifice floods out and gets wasted; a thick balm through a narrow needle nose will not come out at all.

What happens next is predictable: the customer squeezes harder and the tube bursts at the shoulder, which is the thinnest part of the wall. That reads as a manufacturing fault and it was a design decision. Send us a sample of the formula and we will run it through the actual orifice before any tooling is committed.

The tail seal is where tubes fail

A tube is filled from its open end and heat sealed shut, and that crimp is the part that leaks in a box.

Seal width should be specified for the format rather than borrowed from a larger tube, and then actually checked. It also means artwork has to stay clear of the seal area, because the jaws crush anything printed there — we mark that exclusion zone on every artwork template.

What we actually make

Mono-material PE tubes that fit an existing recycling stream. Laminate tubes with an EVOH or foil barrier where the formula needs one. Airless and pump tubes where the product must never meet air, with the residual stated honestly. Applicator tubes — needle nose, brush, roller ball, doe-foot — sized against measured viscosity. Sample and travel formats sealed for the post. And PCR programmes with the recycled percentage given per component.

Everything here is an extruded or laminate squeeze tube. We do not make paperboard tubes.

How we price

No dollar figures on this site. Price moves with material, barrier, size, decoration, cap and quantity, and it falls steeply at range volumes. Send the brief and a real quote comes back the same day, with a lowest-price guarantee if you are already holding a cheaper one.

What we will tell you before you buy

That your formula does not need airless. That high PCR content will shift your pastel slightly between batches. That a laminate tube will not be accepted kerbside. That the applicator you liked on the render is worse than the plain nozzle for your viscosity.

Each of those costs us margin and saves you a print run.

How we work

Who we serve