MeadWestvaco Corporation (MWV) is a global packaging company that provides packaging solutions to many of the world’s premiere brands in the healthcare, personal and beauty care, food, beverage, tobacco, and home and garden industries. MWV’s other business operations serve the consumer and office products, specialty chemicals, forestry and real estate markets. MWV’s business segments include Packaging Resources, Consumer Solutions, Consumer & Office Products, Specialty Chemicals, and Community Development and Land Management.
Consumer Solutions
MWV's Consumer Solutions segment offers a full range of converting and consumer packaging solutions including printed plastic packaging and injection-molded products used for personal and beauty care, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products; dispensing and sprayer systems for personal and beauty care, healthcare, fragrance and home and garden markets.
This segment designs and produces multi-pack cartons and packaging systems primarily for the beverage take-home market and packaging for the tobacco market. Paperboard and plastic are converted into packaging products at plants located in North America, South America, Asia and Europe. This segment also has pharmaceutical packaging contracts with retailers, including well-known mass-merchants. In addition, this segment manufactures equipment that is leased or sold to its beverage and dairy customers to package their products.
Packaging Resources
MWV's Packaging Resources segment produces bleached paperboard, Coated Natural Kraft® paperboard (“CNK”), linerboard, and packaging for consumer products including packaging for beverage and dairy, produce, cosmetics, tobacco, pharmaceuticals and healthcare products. This segment’s paperboard products are manufactured at three mills located in the U.S. and two mills located in Brazil.
Bleached paperboard is used for packaging high-value consumer products such as pharmaceuticals, personal and beauty care, cosmetics, tobacco, food service and aseptic cartons. CNK paperboard is used for a range of packaging applications, the largest of which for MWV is multi-pack beverage packaging. Linerboard is used in the manufacture of corrugated boxes and other containers.
Specialty Chemicals
MWV Specialty Chemicals manufactures, markets and distributes specialty chemicals derived from sawdust and other byproducts of the papermaking process in North America, South America and Asia. Products include activated carbon used in emission control systems for automobiles and trucks and performance chemicals used in printing inks, asphalt paving, adhesives and lubricants for the agricultural, paper and petroleum industries.
Community Development and Land Management
Our Community Development and Land Management Group manages a diverse portfolio of company landholdings to create value and provide a sustainable source of fiber grown to the highest environmental standards.
Consumer & Office Products
MWV Consumer & Office Products is the leading manufacturer and marketer of the most trusted brands in school supplies, office products, and planning and organizing tools, including:
Center for Packaging Innovation
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