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Sonoco to buy Europe’s Weidenhammer in $383m deal


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   


    South Carolina, Sonoco has signed an agreement to buy Weidenhammer, Europe’s leading producer of composite cans,   to increase Sonoco’s global consumer-related packaging and  billion a year, or slightly more than


 


  Jack Sanders said, “Combining Weidenhammer’s state-of-the-  capability places Sonoco in a  global consumer product customers with unparalleled packaging  America and Europe, and creates a strong presence in the emerging markets of South East Asia, China, Eastern Europe and South 


He added that the deal would


create “a global leader in rigid  With expected sales this year of $327 million, Weidenhammer Packaging operates 13 plants,    United Kingdom, United States,   


cans, drums and luxury tubes, Weidenhammer produces rigid    by the company include processed


    “Sonoco and Weidenhammer bring 175 years of combined consumer packaging     60 years of successful business  that the merger with Sonoco  for our business, our customers and partners, as well as to our 


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