Sonoco is aiming to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 15 percent from the company’s manufacturing plants in the United States and Canada over the next five years.
Sonoco President, Chairman and CEO Harris E. Deloach Jr. announced the voluntary emission reduction goal in a letter to stakeholders issued in the company’s 2008-2009 Sustainability Report, which was issued Monday. The report is available on the company’s Web site at www.sonoco.com/sustainability and on Twitter at twitter.com/sonoco_products.
Establishing 2008 as its baseline year, Sonoco expects to voluntarily reduce its combined direct and indirect GHG emissions from its 121 U.S. and
Canadian manufacturing plants by 15 percent by the end of 2013. The company expects to reduce energy usage at its uncoated recycled paperboard mills by maximizing energy efficiency efforts and by changing process steam production at some of its mills to renewable sources and other less carbon-intensive fuels.
Founded in 1899 and headquartered in Hartsville, Sonoco is a $4.1 billion global manufacturer of industrial and consumer products and provider of packaging services, with more than 300 operations in 35 countries, serving customers in some 85 nations.
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