Essex Tube Windings Ltd - Display Tubes

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Cardboard tubes - uses and users
Air conditioning pipes (Alien 3, Bugs, Space Vets, Star Wars The Phantom Menace)
Rolling Road (Mitsubushi Charisma)
Missiles (Spitting image)
Log raft (Palace Scenery for Hellman's Mayonnaise advert)
Chimney (Palace Films for The Soldiers Wife)
Shop display (Debenhams, Framework, Marks and Spencer and the British Shoe Corporation)
Drainpipe (Muppet Christmas Carol, Goldeneye)
Stage Set (First National Lottery draw - Acorn Scenery for the BBC and Reeves & Mortimer)
Gas Cylinders (David Harris Special Effects for London's Burning)
Acoustic Screening (Theatre Tec for Birmingham Exhibition and Conference Centre)
Andalucian Style Roof (Half tubes for Velvetfield Ltd for the Man of the Moment)

Pillars (Absoutely Fabulous, House of Elliot, Star Wars The Phantom Menace)
Lighting Diffuser (Quarter tubes for Ken Norris Ltd)
Special Effects (We supply many pyrotechnic companies with tubes to fire shells and other effects from - as featured in How They Do That?)
American Log Cabin (Dunnford for Lee Jeans)
Cannon (LTW for The Brian Conley Show)
Fascia (Odeon Leicester Square for premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral)
Promotional Work (Lillehammer, to celebrate their holding the 1994 Winter Olymices)

Large Scale Models (A complete make up range for L'Oreal built by Roger C Walker. Numerous pieces for the set of Borrowers)
Oil Cans/Paint Pots: (The Saint, Goldeneye & Tomorrow Never Dies)
If you feel your application for tubes is as imaginative as some of the examples above please send some details and stills and we will include this on a future revisions of this page.

Discover the cardboard tube
When designing or set building involving cylindrical or part cylindrical shapes have you ever considered using cardboard tubes? We specialise in supplying tubes in various forms for the TV, film, advertising, conference, exhibition and shop display industries.Our cardboard tubes will surprise you in a number of ways.

Uses
To fuel your imaginations select "uses and users" for a sample of some of the past uses or our tubes. Through projects with design colleagues prototypes for lighting systems and furniture (display cabinets, shelving system and chairs) have been produced. In addition we wish to encourage designers and others to widen the boundaries or recognised uses for tubes.
Finish
The outer surface can be covered with a decorative finish. They are also smooth enough to take most paint finishes direct but can be covered with lining paper if required.
Strength
During construction the cardboard tube can be sawn, screwed or stapled. In drum form it is quite capable of supporting items as heavy as, say, a washing machine.
Range
See the enquiries section for a full range or diameters.
Availability
As and area we specialise in, your order is given priority. Like any other manufacturer we prefer as much notice as possible, but often have provided a same or next day service.
Fire Rating
The tubes are made or multi-layers or cardboard compressed together. In itself not very combustible, but a simple application of fire retardant liquid, such as Broguard, will satisfy and recongnised test for fire resistance.
Price
While there are bound to be exceptions, the cardboard tube can offer significant savings over other means of creating cylindrical forms.

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