Swing the Bat!
 June 7th, 2012
In This Issue
Did You Know?
Nissan Altima
Toyota Tacoma
New Website!
Did You Know?
 
Sonoco Protective will be presenting a research paper on using Molded Foam Components in medical devices and other electronic assemblies at the International Design Forum (DFMA) in Provedence, RI on June 12th & 13th.
We will be presenting the EPAC concept. 
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Sonoco Launches Nissan Altima Program  
           
The Tullahoma, TN facility has reached Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the Nissan Altima  (L42L) program.  Sonoco will be supplying trunk and spare tire components in both the domestic and foreign vehicle models.
 
Sonoco will manufacture one project as a Tier 1 Supplier to Nissan and 5 projects as a Tier 2 Supplier for an estimated 1.4 million annual volume and $6.7 million annual sales. 
 
In the process of getting prepared, the plant has tripled the curing oven capacity and received two additional Teubert 2x1000 presses.

Please contact Adam Ringer for more details.
Sonoco Helps Toyota Avoid Feeling the Burn!
 
Traditional transportation packaging for fragile automotive components, such as front grilles or trim pieces, has been to use a rack that has hanging bags made of synthetic fiber.  Unfortunately, when the plastic grille is removed from the bag rack, it casues "burning" due to the friction between the plastic grille and the synthetic fiber.
To resolve this, Sonoco engineers created a TransGuard Custom Dunnage pack that both protects the product during shipment and avoids the "burning." Toyota had used TransGuard on the past model of the Toyota Tacoma truck grille, and came to us again with the new model year. 

Please contact Jason Ryan for more details.

Have You Seen the New Sonoco Protective Website?

 

       

The new site for the Protecitve group (Protexic, Thermosafe, Alloyd, and Legacy Sonoco PPD) has gone live! 

After several months of development, writing copy and working out the bugs, the site is live!

Check it out and learn more about how Tegrant fits in with Sonoco!

Please contact Jessica Irons for more details.
Thank you for your feedback on our new format!  Please tell us how you like it before we purchase the program.  We have only 10 days left on our trial!

Please send feedback AND content to Jessica Irons