Sonoco Helps Customers Shrink Their Environmental Footprint

Packaging designers and engineers and material scientists at Sonoco are using the Company's cutting-edge proprietary sustainable packaging design software to help customers reduce their packaging environmental footprint by substituting or eliminating materials, down-gauging structures and simplifying the package to improve its recyclability. Sonoco is also working with customers to reduce and ultimately eliminate landfill waste at their manufacturing facilities. "We are working to balance the growing demand from our customers, consumers and retailers for ‘greener' packaging with requirements for convenience, performance and price," said Jeff Schuetz, staff vice president, Global Technology, Consumer Packaging. "Retailers and consumer product companies are