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Sonoco Elects Puechl, Harrell as Corporate Officers

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Sonoco, Hartsville, S.C., USA, has elected Robert Puechl, VP and GM, Global Plastics; and James Harrell, VP and GM, North America Industrial Carriers division, as corporate officers. Harrell is responsible for Sonoco's North American tubes and cores, wire, and cable reels and transport packaging operations, including 31 manufacturing operations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Puechl is responsible for Sonoco's 20 rigid plastic manufacturing operations, which includes thermoforming, injection stretch, and extruded blow molded containers and molded and extruded plastics in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Germany, and the Netherlands. Harrell joined Sonoco in 1985 and has held a number of manufacturing and management positions in the company's industrial converting operations in North America and Europe. Prior to his most recent assignment, he was division VP and GM, Paper-North America. Puechl began his career with Sonoco in 1986 and has served in a variety of manufacturing and management positions in the company's consumer plastics business. Prior to his most recent assignment, he was division VP and GM, Molded Plastics.


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