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  • Recycled Packaging: The Ideal for End-of-Life

    End-of-life planning must begin long before a package makes its way to a consumer. It requires a high degree of effort, intentionality, and commitment for a brand to implement more sustainable practices. Once a product reaches its end-of-life, there...
  • Water-Based Coatings Can Provide Heat-Sealable Performance

    In response to client needs, market trends, and the push for more sustainable packaging, Cascades Sonoco has developed an innovative suite of water-based coatings. Several of the coatings have the properties of heat-seal ability without the presence...
  • Our Certifications: Green and Growing

    Environmental responsibility is an integral part of the packaging industry. Companies must rely on global end-of-life packaging standards to determine the validity of a product’s sustainable capabilities.
  • Extended Producer Responsibility: Implications for Brands

    Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a pattern of legislation designed to improve end-of-life outcomes for products that are difficult to recycle. Cascades Sonoco offers functional alternatives to plastic packaging with our selection of aqueous...
  • Sonoco’s FlexSHIELD® Receives Multiple Certifications

    HARTSVILLE, S.C., US – Cascades Sonoco, a joint venture between Cascades Inc. and Sonoco Products Company, today announced that its FlexSHIELD® coatings have received third party certification for compostability from TÜV Austria. Additionally, the...
  • Cascades Sonoco Birmingham Now SQF Certified

    HARTSVILLE, S.C., U.S. – Cascades Sonoco, a joint venture between Cascades Inc. and Sonoco Products Ltd., today announced its Birmingham facility has been certified SQF (Safe Quality Food), a GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) benchmarked...
  • Composting – Fact & Fiction

    Before you toss that cup, carton, or food packaging in your backyard composting pile, read the fine print. Most packaging products that are certified compostable are not designed to degrade in your backyard compost pile. Most compostable packaging...
  • Major investments made in Birmingham, AL

    A $17M Investment. In May, we inaugurated the “Dream Machine” at our facility in Birmingham. Over 125 guests attended the ceremony where we celebrated the $17 million dollar investment. The future looks bright as the new line will allow us to coat...
  • Single-Use Skepticism

    The “war on plastics” is alive and well on a global scale. Here in North America, local and state governments are enacting bans on everything from plastic straws to plastic bags and even the tiny shampoo bottles you see in your hotel rooms. Following...

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