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Sonoco Products Co

A maker of packaging based in Hartsville, South Carolina, Sonoco produces the composite cans that hold snack chips, powdered infant formula, and refrigerated dough, along with the paper tubes and cores used to wind film, textiles, and other materials. It began in 1899 as the Southern Novelty Company, founded by the Coker family to make paper cones for yarn winding, and was renamed Sonoco in 1923 by taking the first two letters of each word in its original name. The paper yarn carriers were considered a "novelty" at the time because most were made of wood.