Core cutting machines: every width you need, from one mother tube.
Buying every core length pre-cut means stocking every width, paying transport on air, and waiting on your tube supplier for every format change. Converters who slit to variable widths cut their own cores — automatically and without waste.
Why cut cores in-house
- One stock item instead of dozens — keep 3–6 m mother tubes and cut the exact lengths your slitting programme needs, when it needs them.
- React in minutes, not weeks — a new reel width is a parameter change, not a purchase order.
- Stop shipping air — mother tubes pack denser than pre-cut cores; freight per metre of core drops.
- Precision — clean square cuts, no fringes or delamination, so cores seat correctly on the winding shaft.
Zero-waste cutting — the GAVO approach
GAVO Meccanica leads the cutting stage of CORES WORLD: a global reference in the design and manufacturing of automatic tube cutting machines, with patented zero-waste cutting systems. The machines optimise the cutting sequence over the mother tube so that the leftover stub is eliminated or minimised — material you paid for becomes cores, not scrap.
- Zero-waste technology — patented systems that eliminate cutting waste and optimise core usage.
- High precision — exact tolerances for perfect roll winding and processing.
- Fully automated — CNC controls, automatic loading, minimal operator intervention.
- Versatile — handles the common diameter range and wall thicknesses of paper and plastic cores.
Does a core cutter pay for itself?
The payback calculation has four ingredients: the price gap between mother tubes and pre-cut cores; the freight saved; the stock you no longer hold in every width; and the offcut waste you eliminate. For converters cutting more than a few hundred cores a week with variable widths, the machine typically wins — send us your volumes through the RFQ page and we will route the numbers to GAVO Meccanica.
Cutting new tubes vs stripping used ones
A core cutter prepares new cores from mother tubes. Recovering used cores from finished reels is a different job — stripping the leftover material without cutting into the tube — done by the RECYCLO core stripper. Many converters run both: cut new cores in-house, recover used ones instead of repurchasing.
Tell us about your cores and your rolls.
Send us your core dimensions, materials and yearly volumes. ROLL replies within 24 hours with the right solution — or the right partner in the ecosystem.
Request a quote See the RFQ guide
Write to us directly — info@roll-packaging.com