Sonoco Builds Plant in Ohio

The diversified global packaging company Sonoco will build a 120,000-plus square-foot rigid plastic container plant in its Beauty and Home Care campus in New Albany, Ohio, for a new contract with Mast Global, the sourcing and logistics division of Limited Brands.

The plant is expected to be operational by the end of the second quarter of 2012 and initially will produce products for Limited Brands’ Bath and Body Works stores. Other Limited Brand companies include Victoria’s Secret, Pink, LaSenza, and Henri Bendel.

The plans include several PET injection stretch blow-molding and injection molding lines to produce packaging and components for personal care products, according to Rodger Fuller, vice president of Rigid Paper and Plastics. Total cost of the building and equipment is estimated to be $15 million and the operation will employ about 60 new workers.