HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Sonoco Paper employees were laid off Monday morning at a meeting at the Hutchinson plant.
According to Tucky Allen from Kansas Workforce One, he received a WARN notice of the plant's closing on Monday. He told Hutch Post that the layoff will include 116 employees.
Sonoco has owned the paper mill since 2001, when it purchased the mill from Republic Group LLC.
Sonoco was the mill's largest customer at the time of their acquisition of the plant, purchasing paperboard for composite cans, primarily for refrigerated dough products, and for tubes.
More information coming on Hutch Post as it becomes available.