Packaging online staff

Sonoco is voluntarily targeting a 15 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the company’s more than 300 global manufacturing plants by 2014.

Shorewood Packaging, a subsidiary of International Paper Corp., will close its Newport News, Va.-based tobacco folding carton plant in October, the Virginian-Pilot reports.

ORIX Finance Group, Dallas, is leading a group of five lenders and has arranged a $110 million credit facility to support The Newark Group through its bankruptcy process, reports Citybizlist.

On July 1 Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. said it will consolidate or shutter seven more of its box plants in 2010 and 2011.

Colbert Packaging Corp., Chicago, has completed the acquisitions of two carton manufacturers, Dayton Carton in Louisville, Ky., and Crown Paper Box in Indianapolis. Terms were not disclosed.

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (SSCC) shareholders will know within a week whether they'll get a wider role in reorganizing the bankrupt packaging maker, a judge said.

Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has telephoned John Faraci, ceo of International Paper Co., and had what his staff called a very positive conversation about finding another use for the Albany board mill.

Shorewood Packaging Corp. has cut 33 jobs at its Danville, Va., plant because of low customer demand.

AMEC, an international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a $93 million contract by Packaging Corp. of America (PCA) for energy efficiency upgrades at its linerboard mill in Valdosta, Ga., that will reduce energy consumption and electricity costs.

Australian corrugator Amcor Ltd. has decided to keep its Sunclipse Inc. corrugating and sheet plant operations in North America after failing to attract a sufficient price.