Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.



On December 31, 2019, Sonoco Products Company (the "Company"), completed the
acquisition of Thermoform
Engineered Quality, LLC, and Plastique Holdings, LTD, (together "TEQ"), from
ESCO Technologies, Inc,
subject to the terms and conditions of the Equity Purchase Agreement dated
November 15, 2019 and filed in the
Company's Form 8-K on November 19, 2019, for net cash of approximately $187
million. The Company funded
the transaction using short-term credit facilities. As is typical, final
consideration will be subject to a post-closing adjustment for the change in net
working capital to the date of closing.

The operations acquired consist of three thermoforming and extrusion facilities
in the United States along with a
thermoforming operation in the United Kingdom and thermoforming and molded-fiber
manufacturing in Poland,
which together employ approximately 500 associates. These facilities are capable
of producing sterile, barrier
packaging systems for pharmaceuticals and medical devices and recyclable molded
pulp fiber packaging and
thermoformed plastic packaging for multiple consumer products. The acquisition
of TEQ provides a strong
platform to further expand Sonoco's growing healthcare packaging business. TEQ's
financial results will be
reported within the Company's Consumer Packaging segment.

Financial statements of TEQ and pro forma information are not included in this
Form 8-K as the criteria
under Rule 3-05(b) and Article 11, respectively, of Regulation S-X were not met.

A copy of the news release issued by Sonoco announcing the completion of this
acquisition is being filed as
Exhibit 99 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference
herein. For additional
information regarding TEQ, reference is made to the Company's   Form 8-K filed
on November 19, 2019.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits



                                              Exhibit Index
99                          News Release dated January 2, 2020, announcing

completion of the acquisition


                          of TEQ
101.INS                   XBRL Instance Document - the instance document

does not appear in the


                          Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are

embedded within the Inline XBRL


                          document
101.SCH                   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
101.CAL                   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEF                   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
101.LAB                   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
101.PRE                   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
Exhibit 104               Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as

Inline XBRL and contained in


                          Exhibit 101)

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