MeadWestvaco - Printing and Packaging Materials and Solutions

MeadWestvaco is a global company that supplies high-value printing and packaging solutions and products to the world's most recognized brands. By leveraging its diverse consumer-product experience, pursuing innovation and staying abreast of market trends, MeadWestvaco offers products that balance the aesthetic expectations of brand owners, retailers and consumers with the performance needs of converters, while at the same time delivering measurable value to both groups.

Brand owners count on the exceptional printability and uniformity of MeadWestvaco’s high performance bleached paperboard to help them capture attention on retail shelves and in printed media, increase product sales and expand their market share. MeadWestvaco also sells unbleached board with a natural, brown appearance that aids in the creation of distinctive brand images for a variety of market segments.

MeadWestvaco products also deliver measurable value to converters. Beyond yield advantages over competitive products, the company’s paperboard offers unrivaled reliability and consistency that result in near-perfect, on-press performance and help to minimize costly machine downtime.

PAPERBOARD FOR PACKAGING APPLICATIONS

MeadWestvaco paperboard is used in a broad range of packaging applications, including luxury goods, foods and beverages, pharmaceuticals and other healthcare products. It is available in a broad range of calipers, in sheets or rolls, and for offset, gravure, flexographic and digital printing. Many are also available with recycled fiber content.

MeadWestvaco paperboard for packaging applications includes:

Crescendo® – a brilliant, top-of-the-line C1S and C2S SBS board for luxury packaging applications. Recently enhanced, Crescendo still features an ultra-bright, blue-white styling. Now, it's even smoother, offering improved printability on both sides as well as enhanced uniformity for better registration through press, superior performance in high-speed forming and filling operations and greater consistency in die-cutting, embossing, foil stamping, engraving, scoring and folding.

Printkote® – the industry standard for C1S and C2S SBS board, Printkote is known for its consistent brightness and smoothness and its outstanding runnability.

CNK® (Coated Natural Kraft) – MeadWestvaco’s most robust cartonboard packaging solution, CNK offers excellent compression strength, a smooth printing surface and superior uniformity and consistency, while also meeting US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements for most packaging applications.

Kraftpak® – a natural brown paperboard that offers an attractive appearance in a variety of packaging applications, including folding cartons, foodservice and gift box applications. Kraftpak offers tear strength and stiffness characteristics comparable to higher-basis-weight paperboard, while its smooth, consistent surface offers excellent printability and on-press performance.

Natralock™ – a cost-effective, paperboard-based alternative to plastic clamshells and other theft-deterrent product packaging, Natralock keeps thieves out, lets consumers in and is gentler on the environment.

PAPERBOARD FOR PRINTING APPLICATIONS

MeadWestvaco also offers paperboard for diverse commercial printing applications, such as book covers, annual reports, brochures, calendars, mailers, Point Of Purchase (POP) displays, greeting cards and catalogs.

MeadWestvaco paperboard for printing applications includes:

Crescendo® – a brilliant, top-of-the-line C1S and C2S SBS board for high end printing and graphics, as well as packaging, applications. Recently enhanced, Crescendo still features an ultra-bright, blue-white styling. Now, it's even smoother, offering improved printability on both sides as well as enhanced uniformity for better registration through press, superior performance in high-speed forming and filling operations and greater consistency in die-cutting, embossing, foil stamping, engraving, scoring and folding.

Tango® – a family of coated cover papers that combines high brightness and a smooth printing surface with nearly perfect on-press performance. Developed to meet the demanding needs of the North American commercial printing market and marketed exclusively in the United States, Canada and Mexico, Tango's smoothness meets or exceeds that of most competitive No. 2 Coated Free Sheet (CFS) covers, making it suitable for critical print jobs involving stochastic printing, die-cutting and embossing. It is available in C1S, C2S and blanks.

SERVICE AND AVAILABILITY

MeadWestvaco offers a complete array of customer service programs designed to ensure its products deliver the full measure of their intended value. These service programs include market and customer research, technical sales service and rapid-delivery programs.

With operations in 29 countries, including a principal sales office in Brussels, Belgium, and warehouses and local service partners in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, MeadWestvaco can react quickly to the frequent orders, quick-turnaround times and custom-sizes that typify the requirements of European converters.