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Sonoco Returns to FORTUNE 500 List

Sonoco Products Company (NYSE: SON), a global leader in high-value sustainable packaging, has returned to the FORTUNE 500 list, a ranking of the largest U.S. companies by revenue. Coming in at #489, Sonoco had sales of $7.8 billion in 2025. With 22,000 teammates, the Company serves customers across paper and metal packaging markets around the world.

A true green cover for industrial waste landfills, TAPPI Journal April 2024

Toscotec to Supply Steel Yankee Dryer for Tobacco at Tae-A Industry in South Korea

ANDRITZ Starts Up New High-Temperature Yankee Hood and Air System at Kartogroup, Spain

Mondi Celebrates Completion of €125 Million Containerboard Mill Upgrade in Kuopio, Finland

Multilayering of conventional latex-based dispersion coatings containing small amounts of silica nanospheres: Runnability on a pilot scale flexographic coater and barrier performance, TAPPI Journal November 2023

Reliable & Accurate Valve Selection for Erosive Pulp and Paper Applications Webinar

This technical webinar addresses critical valve selection challenges for mid-career pulp and paper professionals managing erosive reject applications in stock preparation systems. Expert Sharon Iqbal demonstrates how proper material selection, including tungsten carbide and nickel-based hard surfacing, combined with reverse flow design principles, dramatically extends valve life from 3 months to over 12 months. The presentation covers advanced methodologies to prevent cavitation damage, reduce maintenance costs, and improve screening ratios while protecting downstream equipment. Real-world case studies showcase ROI benefits through enhanced fiber recovery, reduced operational expenditures, and the ability to utilize more cost-effective mixed feedstock, directly impacting plant profitability for operations managers and process engineers.

Celupaper Puts Its Trust in Toscotec, Tissue360º Spring/Summer 2020

Celupaper Puts Its Trust in Toscotec, Tissue360º Spring/Summer 2020

Recycling performance of softwood and hardwood unbleached kraft pulps for packaging papers, TAPPI Journal February 2023

ABSTRACT: The scope of this work is to evaluate the recyclability potential of hardwood and softwood unbleached kraft pulps, leading to a sound basis for comparison and even to support a decision about fibers accord-ing to the performance achieved. The influence of successive recycling cycles (up to 10 cycles) on the fiber morphol-ogy, pulp suspension drainability, water retention capacity, and handsheet mechanical properties were studied for Eucalyptus globulus and Pinus sylvestris unbleached kraft pulps. The performance of these pulps as linerboard and corrugating medium for packaging was also evaluated. The requirements for brown kraftliner and for high perfor-mance recycled fluting grades is preserved for E. globulus pulp during all 10 recycling cycles, evidenced by the mod-erate decrease of burst index and crush resistance index and by the short-span compression index, whereas the P. sylvestris pulp loses this rating after the second cycle. These results strongly support the higher performance of E. globulus pulp for recycling as compared with softwood kraft pulp from the perspective of packaging papers.

A fast and non-destructive alternative to the burnout method for paperboard quality inspections using phase-contrast X-ray imaging, TAPPI Journal February 2023

ABSTRACT: An X-ray based quality inspection method for paperboard was implemented and tested as a fast and non-destructive alternative to the burnout method. An argument against X-ray imaging for inspection of paper and paperboard has been that X-ray absorption is low in paper. To overcome this limitation, we used phase-contrast X-ray imaging (PCXI), which gives higher contrast than conventional attenuation-based imaging for low-absorbing materials such as paper. The suggested PCXI method was applied to previously prepared and quality rated samples using the burnout method. A strong similarity between the burnout images and the PCXI images was observed. In conclusion, further development of the phase-contrast X-ray method would provide an interesting option for replacing or complementing the standard burnout method.