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2006-10-28 News Release

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Packaging company to expand rotogravure capacity

Global packaging company plans to consolidate its Keating Rotogravure cylinder manufacturing facility to a new plant in Richmond, Virginia.

Global manufacturer of industrial and consumer packaging products and provider of packaging services Sonoco, Hartsville, South Carolina, announces it will consolidate its Keating Rotogravure cylinder manufacturing facility in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and its pre-press graphics operation in Richmond, Virginia, into a new state-of-the-art pre-press graphics and cylinder manufacturing facility to be located in Richmond.

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According to Charles W. Coker, Jr., division vice president and general manager – Flexible Packaging, the consolidation of the two facilities into a new larger and fully automated facility in Richmond will double the present pre-press graphics and cylinder manufacturing capacity of the existing two facilities when it becomes operational in January 2007.

Sonoco offers customer and printer focused cylinder engraving services. photo: Sonoco

Cylinder engraving
Sonoco is the only North American company with direct-laser engraving and a fully automated cylinder engraving plant. The company has the rotogravure capability of engraving 400 Cylinders per week. In 2006, the company added flexographic plate capacity.

“Our Keating pre-press graphics and image carrier operations continue to perform well in the marketplace, leading us to further invest and grow this business,” said Coker. “The consolidation and development of a new facility will meet our customers’ growing needs, both now and in the near future.”

Keating will continue to manufacture flexographic image carriers, provide graphics and customer service in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Some of the 25 Toronto employees affected by the consolidation will be offered transfers within the Company. Employees who are displaced will be offered severance and outplacement services.

Since its inception in 1997, Keating has become one of the premier suppliers of pre-press graphics and image carriers in North America, serving customers through facilities in Charlotte, N.C., and Richmond.

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