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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Wood And Paper Materials Manufacture Of Paper And Paper Products 17.2 - Manufacture of articles of paper and paperboard
160 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 April 2018
Employment effect (start)
13 April 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
US-based international provider of packaging services Sonoco Poland, a subsidiary of Sonoco, has announced that it will create 160 new jobs at the unit in Stryków. The company is looking for 140 blue collars (production workers and engineers) and 20 office staff. The company has just expanded the factory in Stryków by 9,000 m2.
Sonoco provides diversified consumer packaging, industrial products, protective packaging, and packaging supply chain services as well as is the world’s largest producer of composite cans, tubes and cores. Sonoco employs about 21,000 people in more than 335 operations in 33 countries. In Poland, Sonoco has been operating since 2005; it has five factories (Stryków, Wrocław, Sochaczew and Łódź) employing about 2,500 people. In Stryków, the company has been operating since 2008 and employs 1050 people.
Sources
13 April 2018: Puls HR
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Sonoco Display and Packaging, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 93779, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93779.
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