CRA
April 10, 2013
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Who is Sonoco?
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Who is Sonoco?
• Southern Novelty Company
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Founded May 10, 1899
Hartsville, SC
• Southern Novelty Company
SONOCO
Sonoco is Global Packaging
Countries with Sonoco operations
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Sonoco is the Industry’s Only Total Solutions Provider
• Custom design
• Packaging
Development Center
• Brand artwork
management
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Rigid paper containers
Ends and closures
Flexible packaging
Rigid plastic
containers
• Point-of-purchase
displays
• Fulfillment services
• Custom packing
• Scalable service
centers
• True Blue
• Sonoco
Recycling
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History of Sonoco Recycling
• Sonoco
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1899 – Use of Recovered Fiber
1920’s – Collection of Recovered Fiber
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Mid Seventies
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Paper Stock Dealers Acquisition
Expanded by 8 Facilities
Mid Eighties
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Expanded by 4 Facilities
Focused on Recovery for Paper Mills
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History of Sonoco Recycling
• Sonoco Recycling - 1990’s
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1995 – First Municipal Single Stream Contract
First MRF in Columbia, SC
• Sonoco Recycling – 2000 to today
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Addition and Expansion of MRF’s
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Raleigh, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Greenville
Sustainability Focus
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S3 – Sonoco Sustainability Solutions
Focused on Recovery for Paper Mills
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Sonoco’s use of Recovered Materials
• Composite Cans (Chip/Dough Can containers)
• Construction SONOTUBES
• Film, tape, and label Cores
• Point of Purchase Displays
• Recycled Liner Board
• Uncoated Box Board
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Expanding Sonoco’s Business Model
• Global Expansion
• Non-Fiber
• Vertical Integration
• Services
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Community Outreach/Education
Logistics
S3 Process
Sustainable Packaging Design
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Sonoco: Total Solutions Provider From Conception to Collection
Packaging Design, Innovation
& Artwork Management
Retail Merchandising
Complete Consumer
Packaging
Recycling
Packaging Supply
Chain Services
Sonoco Recycling helps customers create and implement sustainable business solutions:
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Identify cost avoidance opportunities through reducing and diverting materials currently going to landfills
Convert waste streams to revenue streams by finding alternative uses for the materials
Provide summary reporting of both productivity improvements and sustainability statistics
Assurance of safe destruction of branded material
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Sonoco Sustainability Star Awards
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Recognition for efforts in landfill
• Gold – achieve 99% landfill diversion
• Silver – achieve 95% landfill diversion
• Bronze –significant waste reduction achievements
Gold level award recipients to date include:
• Boeing, North Charleston, SC
• Kraft Foods, Philadelphia, PA, LeHigh Valley, PA, Suffolk, VA
• P&G, Auburn, ME
• Unilever, Suffolk, VA
• Fruit of the Loom, Summerville, SC
• Cascades Sonoco, Birmingham, AL
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Questions
Mike Pope
Director of Procurement
843-339-6637
mike.pope@sonoco.com