Sonoco Acquires Smurfit UK Tube Facilities

Sonoco has purchased the United Kingdom- based core and tube converting business from Smurfit UK Limited, part of the Jefferson Smurfit Group. The purchase price was not revealed.

The Smurfit core and tube business consists of three converting facilities in the United Kingdom. The business had 2000 annual sales of approximately $16 million, most of which was paper- based tubes and cores for the paper, plastics, paper converting and packaging industries. Sonoco currently has four tube and core facilities in the UK. The company also has a paper mill in England.