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Did You Know?
Recently, New York City proposed a citywide ban on expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam such as coffee cups and takeout containers.
This is bad for Sonoco because, often, our primary EPS packaging material gets lumped in with those food service foam items and when cities aim to ban it, that could directly affect one of our core businesses.
To help fight this ban and to encourage NYC to instead find recycling programs, a website was launched by a member of the EPS Industry Alliance to educate consumers about how EPS foam recycling CAN and IS working in other places.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE WEBSITE
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TransGuard Goes Universal
TransGuard, Sonoco's line of returnable totes and dunnage, has a new, Universal option that could allow for ease of expansion into new markets.
This tote is a unique system of a standard EPP tote with Plastic Corrugated inserts that the user configures as needed per their product. Additionally, there is no tooling cost for the customer.
The TransGuard Universal Tote has just been made available for the sales team to present to customers.
Please contact Jessica Irons if you would like a sample and/or to learn more about the product. |
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 Herman Miller Sweeps NeoCon
At the recent NeoCon Show in Chicago, IL on June 11th, 2013, Herman Miller announced that the new EPP partition Sonoco has been working on would be part of the new Metaform Portfolio™; a living office set that allows office workers to build their own temporary workspaces as needed. This innovative, " Living Office" concept consists of lightweight wall segments made out of EPP that are easy to move, setup, and teardown. Herman Miller won five "best of show" awards for this unique design. Read all about it in a Herman Miller press release HERE. Sonoco engineers have been working long and hard on this innovative new office cubicle partition project, and it was first debuted on the Sunday Morning News on CBS. Congrats to everyone on a job well done! | |
 Colorado Springs to ICF Fame
After the recent tornadoes in Oklahoma, a news station in Colorado did a story about the Insulating Concrete Form (ICF) blocks made in the Sonoco Colorado Springs plant. ICF's are a beneficial way to build homes in order to improve insulation, wind resistance, and energy efficiency.
Check out the video clip of the news story HERE.
One of the schools in the Oklahoma area that was affected by the tornados last month had minimal damage because it was being built with ICF's and this prompted the local governments to get a mandate that all new schools be built with ICF's.
Colorado Springs is one three Legacy Tegrant sites that makes ICF's, which consist of two walls of EPS foam held together with a plastic insert, at their facility. Concrete is then poured into the space between the two foam panels at the construction site. | |
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Revolutionary Returnables
 Did you know that there is a website that is fully dedicated to the returnable packaging industry? PackagingRevolution.net is dedicated to educating consumers, industry members, and engineers about everything going on in the returnable handling market. Sonoco's TransGuard line is a line of returnable material handling totes and dunnage, often used in the automotive industry, but branching out to others. Recently a case study about a major medical OEM's use of a TransGuard solution for a hemodialysis manifold in the medical industry was published on the site. This is a great step forward to help promote the use of our TransGuard product line into new markets. Click HERE to read the case study. | |
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