Sonoco

Sonoco Products Company, established in 1899 and headquartered in Hartsville, South Carolina, is a leading global provider of industrial and consumer packaging solutions. The company operates through four main segments: Consumer Packaging, Display and Packaging, Paper and Industrial Converted Products, and Protective Solutions. Its offerings include a wide range of products such as rigid and flexible containers, point-of-purchase displays, paperboard tubes, and custom-engineered protective packaging. With a workforce of approximately 20,800 employees and operations in over 300 locations across 35 countries, Sonoco serves diverse industries, including food, textiles, chemicals, and construction. The company is recognized for its commitment to innovation and sustainability, contributing to annual sales nearing $5 billion and maintaining a strong presence in the global packaging market.

Drake Cassidy

Strategic Corporate FP&A Analyst

Jeffrey Tomaszewski

Vice President, NA Consumer and Global Rigid Paper and Closures

12 past transactions

Peninsula Packaging

Acquisition in 2017
Peninsula Packaging, LLC designs, develops, and manufactures primary packaging products for produce, bakery, food processor, confectionary, convenience (grab-n-go), and deli markets in North America.

Plastic Packaging

Acquisition in 2016
Plastic Packaging is a manufacturer of superior flexible packaging products for numerous consumer, institutional, and industrial applications. Their bags, pouches, sleeve labels, and roll stock can be found enclosing and protecting products in stores nationwide. It continues to win numerous awards for excellence in flexographic printing and sustainability. Plastic Packaging was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Hickory, North Carolina, United States.
Graffo Paranaense de Embalagens S.A. is engaged in the production, trade, import, and export of flexible packaging solutions. It offers packaging solutions for pharmaceuticals; and food, personal, tobacco, and other products. Graffo Paranaense de Embalagens S.A. was formerly known as Graffo Paranaense de Embalagens Ltda. and changed its name to Graffo Paranaense de Embalagens S.A. on November 21, 2014. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Pinhais, Brazil. As of April 1, 2015, Graffo Paranaense de Embalagens S.A. operates as a subsidiary of Sonoco do Brasil Participações Ltda.

Weidenhammer Packaging Group

Acquisition in 2014
Weidenhammer Packaging Group is a family-run company located in Hockenheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. Specializing in the production of composite cans, composite drums, and rigid plastic containers, the company employs advanced thin-walled molding technology and in-mold labeling to manufacture its products. Weidenhammer serves notable clients, including Unilever-Bestfoods, Nestlé, and Procter & Gamble, providing them with innovative packaging solutions that meet industry standards.

Associated Packaging Technologies

Acquisition in 2010
Associated Packaging Technologies (APT) is a provider of dual-ovenable, food packaging serving the frozen food industry in North America, Europe and Australia/New Zealand. The Company operates four state-of-the-art CPET thermoforming manufacturing facilities in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada; Chillicothe, Missouri; Waynesville, North Carolina; and Carrickmacross, Ireland, and employs more than 400 workers. In addition to being able to manufacture approximately 3 billion CPET containers annually, APT has monolayer and multilayer barrier polypropylene container capabilities. The company also is a pioneer in the development of recycled PET (RePET) frozen food trays.

Matrix Packaging, Inc.

Acquisition in 2007
Matrix Packaging, Inc. is a manufacturer of custom designed blow molded rigid plastic containers and injected molded products. It operates six state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in the United States and Canada and employs approximately 860 workers. Founded in 1992, Matrix utilizes some of the most technologically advanced rigid plastic packaging equipment, including extrusion blow molding, injection stretch blow molding and injection molding that are able to produce mono- and multi-layer rigid plastic containers utilizing a number of plastic materials

Demolli Industria Cartaria SpA

Acquisition in 2006
Demolli Industria Cartaria SpA is is Italy's largest manufacturer of tubes and cores and recycled paperboard, serving markets in Italy and northern Europe.

Clear Pack Co.

Acquisition in 2006
Clear Pack Co. is a manufacturer of an extruded plastic materials and thermoformed plastic containers. It offers extrusion products, like repelletizing extruders, coating lines, homopolymers, copolymers, and multi layer laminas.

CorrFlex Graphics

Acquisition in 2004
CorrFlex, also doing business as CorrFlex Display & Packaging, is headquartered in Statesville, N.C., and has approximately 900 employees at 14 locations in the United States. The company designs, manufactures, assembles, packs and distributes temporary, semi-permanent and permanent P-O-P displays as well as provides contract packaging, co-packing and fulfillment services for major consumer product companies.

Hayes Manufacturing Group

Acquisition in 2001
Hayes Manufacturing Group is a manufacturer of paper-based tubes, cores and composite cans. It also produces paper-based tubes and cores serving the paper, plastic, foil/metal, paper converters, tape/label and construction industries.

Phoenix Packaging Corp.

Acquisition in 2001
Phoenix Packaging Corp. is a manufacturer and marketer of packaging solutions including popcorn bags and aluminum lids for the food industry.

Engraph, inc.

Acquisition in 1993
Engraph, Inc., an innovative packaging company that converts paper, paperboard, and plastics into packaging material, is considered one of the leaders in its field. In the 1990s, its clients included some of the best-known national brands, including Hershey, Kodak, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Wrigley, and Johnson & Johnson. Long an independent company, Engraph was purchased by Sonoco Products Corporation in 1993.
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