Sustainability Watch

For PJ's Coffee of New Orleans, Sonoco developed and is producing vibrant, three-ply, foil-based flexible coffee bags that require 10 percent less material and 15 percent less energy to produce and result in 10 percent fewer carbon emissions than traditional four-ply flexible coffee bags.

Sonoco also helped Kraft Foods convert its Maxwell House, Nabob, and Yuban® brands of coffee from metal cans to more environmentally friendly rigid paperboard containers without sacrificing abuse resistance or shelf life. Less costly and more environmentally responsible than metal, the new cans are made from paperboard that contains more than 50 percent recycled materials and has received chain-of-custody certification from the Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood program.