Shipping tube

A machine for making convolute composite cans, where sheets of straw paper or board are wound perpendicular to the tube, was introduced in 1886 by the W. C. Richie Company.

In 1904 the Monroe Binder Board Company introduced the first large cylindrical juteboard shipping containers for packaging cheese, and convolute drums wound from kraft paper saw widespread use in WWII.

Many tubes are made of layers of paperboard of appropriate strength, and are referred to as composite cans.

Longer and heavier tubes are usually made of stronger grades of corrugated board, sometimes double wall.

Some long boxes have separate recessed pieces of corrugated stapled inside the ends.

A heavy duty composite paper tube. The layers of spiral-wound paper used in its construction are visible. This type of heavy tube is also used as a core for wrapping roll goods.
Long corrugated box, square cross section
Paperboard tubes