# Sonoco acquires Plastic Packaging Inc. flexible packaging company

Sonoco has acquired Plastic Packaging Inc., a privately held Hickory, North Carolina flexible packaging maker with about $42 million in expected 2016 sales and roughly 170 employees. The deal adds short-run flexible packaging capabilities in the southeast US.

- Type: Acquisition
- Announced: 2016-11-09
- Where: Hickory, North Carolina, United States
- Status: completed
- Products: flexible packaging, pouches and bags, lamination, flexographic printed packaging
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [Sonoco](https://endata.com/companies/268.md) (acquirer)
- [Plastic Packaging Inc.](https://endata.com/companies/287.md) (target)

## Sources

- [labelandnarrowweb.com](https://www.labelandnarrowweb.com/breaking-news/sonoco-acquires-plastic-packaging/), 2016-11-09: "Sonoco has acquired Plastic Packaging Inc., a privately held Hickory, NC, USA-based flexible packaging company."

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