About Us

Innovation + Integration

Fueling insight with imagination to create sustainable packaging solutions that build stronger brands.

Ensuring quality production, packing, supply and recovery around the world and across your value chain.

Total Packaging Solutions

Innovation + Integration

Sonoco is a multi-billion dollar global provider of consumer packaging, industrial products, protective packaging and packaging supply chain services.

From our headquarters in Hartsville, S.C., and more than 347 operations in 34 countries, we produce packaging for a variety of industries and many of the world’s most recognized brands, serving customers in 85 nations.

We're Sonoco.

We're one company, and we’re delivering infinite packaging solutions to our customers around the world.

Sonoco’s operations consist of its consumer packaging businesses – Global Rigid Paper and Closures, Global Flexibles and Global Plastics; its Global Services division, which provides high-impact retail displays and packaging supply chain management; its Industrial Converted Products businesses, which manufacture tubes and cores and reels for the wire and cable industry; produce uncoated recycled paperboard globally for Sonoco’s fiber-based packaging divisions and external converters, and include Sonoco Recycling, one of the world’s largest recyclers; and its Protective Solutions division, which produces highly engineered, custom-designed protective, temperature-assurance and retail security packaging solutions.

As the only packaging company with the products, services and expertise to provide customers with total packaging solutions, Sonoco is setting the standard for innovative, consumer-preferred products and seamless, single-source service in the packaging industry.

History

Our first product was a cone-shaped paper yarn carrier that was used for winding and transporting yarn. Since most of the textile cones of that day were wooden, paper cones were a novelty. More


Strategic Values

Sonoco intends to be the low-cost global leader in providing customer-preferred packaging solutions to selected value-added segments, where we expect to be either number one or number two in market share. More


Sonoco Foundation

Sonoco believes that it has the inherent responsibility to help improve the quality of life in the communities where it does business. More


Supplier Diversity

Sonoco supports supplier diversity because it provides a distinct competitive advantage. Often diverse suppliers are able to react to the market more quickly and because they are smaller, tend to have lower operating costs. More


Media Information

Sonoco's media contacts are available to provide quick access to pertinent information about Sonoco. More


Awards and Accolades

We strive to provide customers with packaging products and services that deliver a competitive advantage through quality, performance and sustainability. It's an honor to be recognized for our efforts to help customers as well as for improving the quality of life in the global communities where we do business. More


Directions to Corporate Headquarters

You may not get the exact directions when entering our street address into most GPS units.  To help you find us, here are directions to our corporate headquarters from Charlotte, N.C., Columbia, S.C., Florence, S.C., Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Atlanta, Ga. More


Doing Business with Sonoco

Sonoco purchases a variety of products and services through its supply management group. And if you're purchasing consumer or industrial packaging or packaging services, we have the technology, expertise and commitment to superior customer service to be a value-adding partner in your packaging supply chain. More



 

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