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Sonoco is upgrading the wastewater treatment system at its large metal packaging plant in Milwaukee, adding biogas capture and combustion, with operation expected at the end of Q3; no amount was disclosed.
Sonoco added a second rigid paper cans manufacturing line at its West Chicago, Illinois facility, doubling paper cans production capacity there; the line is operational and ramping up.
Sonoco is combining its metal packaging and rigid paper container businesses across EMEA and APAC into one Sonoco Consumer Packaging EMEA/APAC division. Seàn Cairns has been appointed its president.
Sonoco announced on September 8, 2025 the sale of ThermoSafe to Arsenal Capital Partners for $650 million cash-free and debt-free at closing, plus up to $75 million additional consideration tied to 2025 performance.
Germany-based Vetain GmbH has switched its protein powder packaging to Sonoco's paper-end GreenCan, which is at least 96% paper. The packaging is now available in the German market.
Sonoco is investing in four US facilities in West Chicago, Illinois; Greenville, Wisconsin; Dayton, New Jersey; and Norwalk, California to add paper-bottom can lines. The investment is described as multimillion-dollar, with no exact figure given.
Sonoco announced the closing of its acquisition of Eviosys, a European metal packaging manufacturer, from KPS Capital Partners.
Sonoco agreed to purchase metal packaging maker Eviosys from KPS Capital Partners for $3.9 billion, creating a leading global metal food can and aerosol packaging business. Eviosys is expected to generate about $2.5 billion in 2024 revenue.
Kellanova invested £86m in new technology to produce a 90% paper-based Pringles tube, sold first exclusively in Tesco and One Stop stores in the UK from January 2024 and rolling out to other supermarkets later in 2024.
Sonoco completed its acquisition of the remaining equity in RTS Packaging from joint venture partner WestRock, along with a WestRock paper mill in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for $330 million. The deal adds 15 operations and 1,100 employees.
Sonoco has signed a definitive agreement to acquire S.P. Holding, Skjern A/S, a Danish paperboard manufacturer, in an all-cash deal estimated at $88 million (675 million DKK).
Sonoco plans a new protective packaging facility in Bursa, Turkey, to produce Sonopost cornerposts, with production expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2022. It is the company's second Sonopost plant in Europe after one in Sochaczew, Poland.
WestRock agreed to divest its ownership interest in RTS Packaging to joint venture partner Sonoco for $330 million, and to sell its Eaton, Indiana and Aurora, Illinois uncoated recycled paperboard mills to Ox Industries for $50 million. Closing is expected in the first half of 2023.
Sonoco has announced the acquisition of Skjern Paper, a Denmark-based recycled paperboard manufacturer with annual capacity of 75,000 metric tons, for $88 million, with completion expected in Q4 2022.
Johnson County Council approved two tax abatements for a $15 million expansion of Sonoco Flexible Packaging's facility north of Edinburgh, Indiana. The announcement is dated 13 May 2022.
Sonoco acquired the remaining one-third interest in Sonoco do Brasil Participacoes from private investors, taking full ownership of the flexible packaging joint venture near Curitiba, Brazil. The joint venture had about $34 million in 2021 sales.
Sonoco agreed to acquire Ball Metalpack, a metal packaging joint venture owned by Platinum Equity and Ball Corporation, for $1.35 billion in cash. Ball Metalpack is projected to generate about $850 million in 2021 revenue.
Sonoco has closed the sale of its U.S. Display and Packaging business, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., to Hood Container Corporation for $80 million in cash.
Sonoco acquired Can Packaging, which makes paper cans and packaging machines at two French facilities in Habsheim, for a transaction valued at EUR 41.7 million. The deal was announced on August 4, 2020.
Sonoco is closing a recycled paperboard mill in Trent Valley, Ontario, which can take in 100,000 metric tons per year of recovered fiber. The closure was reported alongside its South Carolina investment in April 2020.
Sonoco will spend $83 million to retool operations in South Carolina and Wisconsin, converting a Hartsville, S.C. machine to uncoated recycled paperboard with about 180,000 tons per year capacity. The project starts late 2020 and is slated for early 2022.
Sonoco agreed to acquire food can, ends and closures maker Eviosys from KPS for about $3.9 billion, creating a global leader in metal food can and aerosol packaging. Sonoco expects over $100 million in synergies.
US packaging firm Sonoco acquired Thermoform Engineered Quality (TEQ) and Stevenage-based Plastique Holdings from ESCO Technologies for about £145 million ($187 million).
Sonoco signed a definitive agreement to acquire Thermoform Engineered Quality (TEQ) from ESCO Technologies for approximately $187 million in cash. TEQ makes thermoformed packaging for healthcare, medical device and consumer markets, with facilities in the US, UK and Poland.
Sonoco signed an agreement to acquire Corenso Holdings America from Madison Dearborn Partners for about $110 million in cash. Corenso operates two Wisconsin Rapids facilities making paperboard cores and recycled board, and the deal is expected to close later in 2019.
Cascades Sonoco inaugurated its expanded Birmingham, Alabama facility and a new production line for water-based coated paperboard. The US$17 million investment has capacity of 50,000 tonnes per year.
Sonoco has become the exclusive supplier of rigid paper containers to German muesli maker mymuesli, produced on a new Sonoco production line in Hockenheim, Germany.
US packaging group Sonoco acquired the remaining 70% stake in Conitex from Texpack, giving it 100% of Conitex, the parent of Papertech in Tudela, Spain. The deal is valued at EUR 123 million and was notified to Spain's CNMC on 27 August 2018.
Sonoco signed a definitive agreement to acquire the remaining 70% interest in the Conitex Sonoco joint venture, a maker of paper-based cones and tubes for the textile industry, for about $133 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2018.
Sonoco signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately owned Highland Packaging Solutions, a thermoformed plastic packaging producer in Plant City, Florida, for about $150 million in cash, expected to close in Q2 2018.
Sonoco agreed to buy 100 percent of Clear Lam Packaging, a family-held maker of high barrier flexible and forming plastic films, for about $170 million in cash. Clear Lam operates in Elk Grove Village, Illinois and Nanjing, China, and closing is expected in Q3 2017.
Sonoco will invest $20 million to develop a packaging center in Atlanta supporting Duracell's new North American battery packaging operation, with full production expected in Q4 2018.
A Cascades and Sonoco joint venture plans to invest $16 million to expand its Birmingham, Alabama plant for a new line of recyclable take-out containers. The line is expected to start up by mid-2018; the announcement is dated 2017-02-24.
Sonoco signed a definitive agreement to acquire Peninsula Packaging Company, a thermoformed fresh-produce packaging maker in Exeter, California, for about $230 million in cash. The deal is expected to close by Q2 2017.
Sonoco will invest $20 million in a new packaging center in a leased Atlanta-area facility to support Duracell's North American battery packaging operation. Full production is expected in the fourth quarter of 2018 under a five-year contract.
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.
Amcor Rigid Plastics completed its acquisition of Sonoco's Global Plastics blow molding business in North America, adding seven plants in the U.S. and Canada and about 850 employees. Terms were not disclosed.
