Sonoco

Whether you are looking to ship a major appliance, a HVAC unit, a copier or printer, plants or medical equipment, Sonoco has transformed the way these items are transported.

Our Sonopost® corner post and Sonobase® carriers offer superior stacking and clamping and are a proven solution for manufacturers around the world. Also, our Sonoview™ packaging system and Sonoguard® protection system allow us to provide you with a total protective packaging solution.

Unlike most packaging solution providers, Sonoco is not constrained by any particular packaging material or process discipline. Working with a full range of materials – paper, foam, molded or formed plastics, wood, corrugated or steel - we provide protective packaging solutions that serve most industries.

Always keeping sustainability and environmental impact in mind, our designs lower your overall cost by eliminating excess materials, reducing damage, optimizing truckload space and simplifying manufacturing or packaging processes.

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A Total Solutions Provider

Manufacturers around the world are turning to Sonoco’s Protective Packaging experts to protect products during shipment.  From engineering and design, to prototyping and testing, to manufacturing, our team has the experience and expertise to provide a total solution.

Whether engineering products or packages, the ultimate in design is reached not when nothing more can be added, but when nothing else can be removed. Sonoco Protective Packaging has answered the call from customers around the world to design a “less is more” package—one that will reduce damage losses, improve sustainability, stack higher in warehouses, pack denser in trailers and eliminate raw materials that serve only to help the product endure the trip between factory and consumer. Those customers, like you, prefer a supplier who’s:

• Better integrated. All engineering, designing, prototyping and ISTA-certified testing is done by the same team.
• More streamlined. You don’t want to wait for third-party test results. Having the ability to work side-by-side with designers allows you to make changes on the spot, have new prototypes built, and re-test them immediately. 
• Faster to market. Having all critical design and testing functions in one place helps you fast-track product introduction and gives you an edge on competitors.
• Complexity simplified. You want depth of packaging expertise and creativity that makes perfecting complex solutions less complicated and easier to implement. 
• Globally local. You prefer a partner with local expertise deployed in every corner of the world so you’ll have a trusted, local solution provider wherever the manufacturing need arises.

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Markets Served:

• Appliances
• HVAC
• Copiers/Printers
• Horticulture 
• Medical Equipment

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Major Appliances

Major appliance manufacturers around the globe look to Sonoco Protective Packaging for solutions that offer superior stacking and multiple unit clamping, maximum product protection, and packaging that fits the individual production and distribution requirements of each customer and retailer. As a leading designer and supplier of protective packaging solutions, our material and process knowledge of the appliance industry means projects move from concept, to prototype to solution quickly. The end result: a high-quality protective package design that delivers maximum performance and satisfies your specific requirements.

HVAC

HVAC equipment is easily damaged during shipment, so product damage is a major concern for HVAC manufacturers. Sonoco’s Protective Packaging experts can provide solutions that minimize damage, reduce costs and lessen the environmental impact of packaging. From corner supports to base carriers, our experience and knowledge of logistics and distribution challenges ensure HVAC manufactures receive a custom-designed solution to their distribution needs.

Copiers/Printers

Supplying printer and copier manufacturers in Mexico, Europe and Asia, Sonoco’s Protective Packaging experts are finding ways to reduce overall packaging weight and volume, reducing foam weight and volume, moving packaging to 100% recyclable content and improving incoming material freight. As a recipient of an International Design Excellence award, our expertise in conceiving, designing, prototyping, testing, manufacturing and delivering custom solutions to the challenges of shipping printers and copiers is resulting in substantial cost savings for customers around the globe.

Horticulture

Packaging solutions that meet growers’ and retailers’ expectations when it comes to reducing damage, improving sustainability and saving money in shipping and storage costs.

ReadyGrow™ Young Plant Shippers
Sonoco’s new rigid paperboard shipping systems, Young Plant Shippers, better protect young plants during transport. Designed to address problems associated with transporting live young plants in traditional corrugated packaging, Young Plant Shippers securely hold in place and protect plant trays during shipping. The new system can be used for express shipments or put on a pallet and transported by truck. Sonoco’s patented formed inserts are 100-percent recyclable and constructed to withstand high moisture levels and provide increased support of plant trays during the shipping process.

Available:
• For loads from one to six trays
• As standard- or custom-printed boxes
• In insulated or non-insulated designs

ReadyGrow™ SonoShelf™ Plant Transport System
SonoShelf, Sonoco’s new plant transport system, is an all-paper, recyclable structure that allows economical one-way shipments from grower to grower or grower to retail, without the worries of cart return or wood system disposal. Its open-air format is simple to both load and shop, while the smooth paper surface allows shippers to avoid wood splinters and unsightly retail displays. SonoShelf can be assembled by layers, making it less difficult for workers to load and unload plants.

Available:
• In standard 30 x 40 cart size
• In full 40 x 48 pallet load size
• With varying numbers of shelves and shelf heights

ReadyGrow™ Biodegradable Planter
Sonoco’s new biodegradable planter, made from single-wrapped 100-percent recycled paperboard produced locally in Sonoco’s paper mills, is sustainable in commercial greenhouse environments and conveyable on automatic or manual greenhouse production lines. ReadyGrow pots are porous, allowing oxygen to pass through the container to the roots. Sonoco’s RootGuard™ technology is a proprietary coating added to ensure the pot withstands greenhouse watering and maintains good water absorption while in the soil. With the patent-pending ReadyGrow planter, Sonoco is able to offer consumers an environmentally-friendly, no-mess alternative to plastic planters that is both sustainable and sturdy. Retailers no longer have damaged plants and lost sales caused by pots molding, disintegrating, or tearing apart as consumers lift them from greenhouse trays. Instead, they’re now able to offer consumers a truly conveyable package.

Learn more about the ReadyGrow™ biodegradable planter.