Erdie Industries, formerly known as Erdie paper Tube Company, is a family-owned company that specializes in the shipping and mailing of tubes for various consumer markets. It features several types of mailing tubes, including brown and white kraft, clear plastic and pinched end. The company offers Twist-n-Pull plastic caps that fit into matching slots in the tubes. It also provides cardboard shipping tubes that are used for the mailing and storage of promotions, posters, calendars and documents. Erdie Industries manufactures paper tubes in a variety of dimensions, which are used as spacers, covers and protectors. In partnership with Sonoco, it supplies paper converting cores that are used for wrapping materials, such as paper, plastic, film and rubber. The company additionally provides in-house printing and free shipping services. Erdie Industries maintains a location in Lorain, Ohio.