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CORES AND EDGE PROTECTORS

Parallel wound cores are used for rolling up textiles and floor coverings. Spirally wound cores are more technically complex and have applications in the paper, film, textile and aluminium industries and in highly diversified industrial applications.

Edge protectors are used in agriculture and industry, to improve the protection of products stacked on pallets.

Corex® is successful in production and marketing at the top segment of the cores market: smooth cores for the foil industry, cores with a barrier material for the food industry and cores with a soft recyclable felt layer for the steel industry.

COMPETITIVE POSITION

Our eleven production sites, with a total capacity of 130,000 tons, supply the key markets in Europe, namely Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, France, Benelux, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania.
Furthermore, the cores segment in Belgium has its own research and development team for new applications and products.
Corex® grew strongly within the European market for cores in 2010.

PLANTS

COREX Belgium NV Deerlijk (BE)
COREX Depauw NV Harelbeke (BE)
COREX Nederland BV Almelo (NL)
COREX France SA Lille (FR)
COREX UK Huyton (GB)
COREX Luxembourg SA Differdange (LU)
COREX Czech sro. Vyskov (CZ)
COREX Polska Sp.z o.o. Swiecie (PL)
COREX Nordic AS Hommelvyk (NO)
COREX Deutschland GmbH Bocholt (DE)
SC COREX Romania srl. Salonta (RO)