Packaging designers, engineers and material scientists at Sonoco Recycling are using the company?s proprietary sustainable packaging design software to help manufacturers reduce their packaging environmental footprint by substituting or eliminating materials, down-gauging structures, and simplifying packages to improve 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 increasingly integrating sustainability into
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We’ve all heard the stories of giant islands of plastic in the oceans, of forests and beaches befouled by containers, of heaps of package detritus surrounding the world’s cities. But sustainability has now become the name of the game in packaging. In a 2007 survey by nonprofit group and trade magazine Packaging Digest, both US-based, 73% of 1,255 respondents involved in packaging reported that their companies had increased their emphasis on sustainable packaging. US chemical giant DuPont also cited in its Sustainable Packaging fact sheet a survey by compatriot trade body the that reported that 62% of consumer product
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
By combining flexo and gravure, Sonoco is able to maintain its competitive edge. By Kate Tomlinson, Associate Editor IN 1993, SONOCO'S Flexible Packaging division realized that it could offer customers the value-added products many were looking for, by expanding its strictly gravure process base. Today, with nine plants worldwide, Sonoco achieves its range of graphics by running flexo and gravure both separately and in combination. Sonoco's extensive equipment roster includes: wide- and narrow-web rotogravure presses, up to 11 stations with in-line lamination and cold/heat seal coatings; wide- and narrow-web flexographic presses, up to 10 stations with in-line lamination and cold/heat seal coatings; gravure/flexo
