Sonoco has named Carl Kraus division vice president and general manager for its Protective Solutions' Industrial business segment, Jeff Christensen division vice president and general manager for Sonoco Alloyd, a retail packaging business, and Ron O'Neal division vice president of manufacturing, Protective Solutions. Kraus is responsible for commercial sales, business development, marketing, customer service and product engineering, covering Sonoco's transportation, HVAC and industrial components and protective packaging business. Christensen is responsible for all aspects of Sonoco Alloyd's operations, including sales, packaging design, thermoforming of blisters, trays and displays, printing, tooling and machinery, including the Company's industry leading Alloyd sealing machines.

O'Neal will be responsible for all aspects of operations, including direct manufacturing, process engineering, field engineering and employee safety. During his 27 years with Sonoco, Kraus has held many important roles in manufacturing at the division and global levels including, division vice president manufacturing North America Paper Converting, as well as division vice president Global Industrial Manufacturing. Christensen came to Sonoco with the acquisition of Tegrant where he served as vice president of sales for the Protexic business unit.

He has more than 20 years of sales, marketing and engineering experience in the industrial, automation, electrical products and controls industries. O'Neal has held numerous important roles during his 23 years with Sonoco, including director of operations, Protective Packaging; division vice president of manufacturing, Tubes and Core NA; European operations division vice president, Paper converting. Prior to joining Sonoco, O'Neal held various manufacturing roles with Republic Packaging Corp., a national supplier of design and fabricated cushion packaging materials sold primarily to the electronics industry.