Sonoco Alloyd’s full-service, in-house design shop provides complete packaging solutions for clients in an array of markets – from cosmetics to electronics and mobile devices, office supplies to pharmaceuticals and medical, hardware and sporting goods and toys.

Saving Money and Production Time

As an in-house design shop, the Sonoco Alloyd design team provides clients with a competitive advantage:

• Streamlining the life cycle of the packaging project.
• Saving production time.
• Reducing costs.
• Moving strategically branded products to market faster.
• Increasing customer engagement through innovative designs.

Our “concept-to-shelf” design process includes:

• Prototype Creation
• Thermoform Tooling
• Heat-Sealing Tooling
• Sealing Machines
• Printed Material Inserts
• Packaging
• Point of Purchase Displays

Our wide breadth of experience ensures that we understand the nuances, target consumers, and industry standards across diverse markets. With knowledge, expertise and proven success, we craft custom-engineered, integrated packaging solutions that enhance brands, promote visibility, ensure security, motivate consumers and improve sales.

Proven Experience in Diverse Markets

Our diverse market environments demand cutting-edge packaging designs that entice shoppers, self-promote, provide security and differentiate your brand among the wide array being offered on store shelves. Sonoco Alloyd is the proven leader in the industry, providing the full value proposition for design, thermoforming, print and tooling manufacturing.

Markets Served

• Cosmetics & Personal Care
• Electronic, Media & Mobile Devices
• School & Office Supplies
• Medical & Pharmaceuticals
• Household & Hardware
• Sporting Goods & Toys
• Automotive Aftermarket

Cosmetics & Personal Care

Standing out in the competitive cosmetics and personal care market takes more than a great product–it takes stunning, high visibility packaging with undeniable shelf appeal. Sonoco Alloyd’s innovative designers and engineers partner with you from initial design to product launch to create attractive, cost-efficient packaging that connects with customers.

Electronics, Media & Mobile Devices

Sonoco Alloyd designs and manufactures electronics, media and mobile device and accessories packaging solutions that protect their valuable, delicate contents and capture the attention of discerning consumers. Sonoco Alloyd team of designers and engineers are skilled at adapting to this ever-evolving market to consistently create packaging as technologically advanced and efficient as the products it protects.

School & Office Supplies

Bic packagingSchool and office products that inspire learning and support everyday tasks deserve creative, functional packaging. From initial concept to end consumer, Sonoco Alloyd provides full-service solutions to create smart, highly visible packaging that builds brand recognition and secures sales.

Medical & Pharmaceuticals

Sonoco Alloyd understands that sensitive medical, pharmaceutical and home care products require extra care to ensure protection, eliminate contamination, promote visibility and improve sales. Medical and pharmaceutical clients must meet strict regulations for packaging, and our engineered designs provide the flexibility necessary to maintain compliance. In addition, our automatic and semi-automatic sealing machines ensure that everything from medical devices and over-the-counter medicines to pharmaceutical unit dose packaging is safe, sealed and secure.

Household & Hardware

Try-Me packagingProducts that help preserve, improve and care for your home need packaging that visually and emotionally connects with consumers, retailers and merchandisers alike. To achieve that goal, Sonoco Alloyd produces household and hardware packaging to meet your specific design, product, budget and scheduling needs.

Sporting Goods & Toys

Sonoco Alloyd is proud to create packaging solutions for the sporting goods and toys that are an integral part of childhoods, athletic competition, leisure and family time. Our “concept to shelf” packaging is designed to meet your specific needs to connect with consumers, retailers and merchandisers.

Automotive Aftermarket

Keeping the automobiles of the world running strong requires a vast array of parts, chemicals, tools, equipment and accessories. Sonoco Alloyd’s experienced team of designers and engineers ensures that the automotive aftermarket products consumers and do-it-yourself-ers need have the smart, visually appealing and durable packaging they require.

Creative thinking and innovation are important to Sonoco Alloyd, and we believe both should be applied to the ways we protect, preserve and sustain our planet. We provide total packaging solutions starting with a comprehensive, sustainable design that focuses on the needs of the entire value chain—from the brand owner's marketing, manufacturing and logistics functions to the needs of retailers and consumers. The results are greater efficiencies, cost savings, enhanced resource management and a lower environmental impact for all.

We work to continuously create packaging solutions that:

• Reduce weight
• Remove extra material
• Optimize size
• Reuse and recycle product
• Use fewer resources
• Yield more revenue

We Are Certified Sustainable

Sonoco Alloyd is proud to carry the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®-C011144) certification for our Batavia, Ill., printing facility. This certification means our paper products have followed a specific and transparent procedure from the forest to our location. FSC is committed to encouraging the responsible management of the world’s forests. To be FSC Certified means Sonoco Alloyd is dedicated to:

• The responsible sourcing of our paper material
• Third party audits of the Chain of Custody for all paper materials
• The abundant future of forests for generations to come

Sonoco Alloyd’s Batavia printing facility follows the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) guidelines set forth by this independent auditor of good forestry practices. SFI’s strict requirements give us confidence that our paper products come from responsible sources. We are proud to be part of a growing community of landowners, conservation groups and responsible companies all working towards improving forest management. We promote responsible forest management, and so do our customers. SFI means good things for you and our future forests.

Sustainable Products

Alloyd Eco-Friendly PackagingUsing up to 80 percent less plastic, our carded club store packaging meets the rigors of merchandising and distribution, while building your brand and enticing consumers with a custom-engineered blister. A fully recyclable card and tamper-resistant--yet still easy to open--package help this solution save on both material and processing costs. Download the carded club store packaging brochure.

PET Blister Packaging

Made from recycled materials, PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) blister packaging is strong and lightweight, reducing shipping costs and environmental impact while providing a cost-effective, eye-catching alternative to traditional options.