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Research and Development is a critical component of the value-added
services provided by Cascades Sonoco. Utilizing our own network
of research and development centers in North America, Europe,
Asia and Australasia, Cascades Sonoco ensures superior product
and process innovation and performance.
At Cascades
Sonoco, we take research and development very seriously, seeing
it not as science for science’s sake, but as an integral
value-adding service provided to our customers. A high level
of synergy exists between our laboratories and R&D centers,
sales, marketing and manufacturing operations; a synergy that
results in customer-focused research and commercially viable
packaging solutions that meet customer demands for performance,
cost savings and environmental sensitivity. Our R&D is
dynamic, responding to immediate customer needs while planning
for and often leading future trends.
A unique
aspect of Cascades Sonoco’s R&D capabilities is that
it is truly global, with centers in Canada, the United States,
Europe, Asia and Australia. The ability to leverage the strengths
of each of these centers is unparalleled in the pulp, paper
and roll packaging industries. Transferring the best new ideas,
products and processes and sharing solutions to industry-wide
problems is further enhanced by our shared R&D resources,
resources that include advanced testing and information technology.
In addition, each Cascades Sonoco production facility has
an on-site laboratory for raw material and finished product
testing. All products are rigorously tested and analyzed in
R&D and then in our plants to ensure optimum performance
and customer satisfaction.
Cascades
Sonoco maintains close relationships with equipment manufacturers
to facilitate product and process development and ensure our
packaging materials run with precision on customers’
equipment. This also helps in anticipating changing performance
requirements so that as customers enhance equipment and processes,
Cascades Sonoco is ready to respond with the right packaging
solutions.
Fields
of Expertise:
- Calibration
- Dry chemistry
- Microscopy
- Molecular modeling
- Process simulation and improvement
- Wet-end chemistry
- Barrier technology
- Polymer science
- Laminating and coating
The Cascades
Sonoco Advantage:
- Total packaging solutions
- R&D Centers in North America, Europe, Asia and Australasia
- Global transfer of technology
- Plant-based laboratories for on-site testing
- Accelerated "concept to market" product and
process development
- Commitment to ongoing improvement
- Proven synergy between R&D, Sales and Manufacturing
- The first Canadian R&D Center in the pulp and paper
industry with ISO 9001 Registration
- Established relationships with equipment manufacturers
- Dedicated sales and service support
- Experienced technical support
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