MeadWestvaco Packaging Resources Group

MeadWestvaco Develops Wine Multipack
November 2, 2006

ATLANTA, Georgia—MeadWestvaco, a developer of multiple packaging solutions, recently partnered with Tetra Pak, a food and beverage processing and packaging company, to create consumer-friendly multipacks for wine in Tetra Prisma containers. MeadWestvaco’s Cluster-Pak wrap-style carton was chosen to showcase the unique, octagonal shape of the Tetra Prisma container and made its market debut for an array of wine brands earlier this year. Currently sold in the United States for brands such as Three Thieves, MeadWestvaco’s multipacks for wine hold four, 250 ml Tetra Prisma single-serve containers and provide consumers with the portability and easy storage they desire. “MeadWestvaco and Tetra Pak have a long history

See Me, Feel Me
August 1, 2006

Give a present to a child of a certain age and she’ll likely be more interested in the box than its contents. Well, maybe she’s onto something. Secondary cosmetic packaging does more than hold a glass, plastic, or metal container. It carries and promotes the brand. Ideally, it also should carry enough shelf appeal to catch the eye and sufficient emotional content to capture a consumer’s heart—without incurring additional manufacturing costs. That’s a heroic order for any substrate. Across product categories, customer requests for innovative printed products have grown dramatically in recent years, in keeping with a broad-based change in print purchasing behaviors that

Substrates
May 1, 2006

Acpo Offers clear, matte, thermal transfer printable, UL registered, easy release and UV resistant polyesters. Write 993, Visit www.acpo.com Acucote A founding member of The Brand Protection Alliance and member of NASPO and the CACP. Write 994, www.acucote.com AET Films Provider of flexible packaging, product labeling, consumer packaging, and graphic media films. Write 995, aetfilms.com Alufoil Products Co. Offers laminated foils, available in text weights from 15 lb. through 80 lb., and in cover weights. Write 996, www.alufoil.com API Foils Hot stamping foils and supplies: metallic, pigment, pearl, specialty, and holographic foils. Write 997, www.