John P. McKernan

MeadWestvaco Calmar, Inc. manufactures plastic spray pumps and product dispensing systems for household cleansing, personal care, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. It was founded in 1946 by Andrew Martin and is located in Grandview, MO.

York Tape & Label LLC is one of North America’s largest label producers and the third largest producer of prime, pressure sensitive labels in the country. YORK is an industry-leading provider of high quality, innovative labeling technologies to major global consumer goods, pharmaceutical, food & beverage and wine & spirits companies. Headquartered in Omaha, NE, YORK currently has eleven state-of the art production facilities: two in Omaha, one in Asheville, NC, one in York, PA, one in El Dorado Hills, CA, one in Sonoma, CA, three in Montreal, Canada, one in Toronto, Canada, and one in Kansas City, MO. York Tape & Label also maintains a 50% ownership in the Cameo Marinetti joint venture located in Santiago, Chile.

LabelCorp Holdings, Inc. provides printing & publishing services. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

MeadWestvaco Corp. provided packaging solutions to healthcare, beauty and personal care, food, beverage, tobacco and home and garden industries. It was also produces specialty chemicals for the automotive, energy and infrastructure industries. The company was operates through five business segments: Food & Beverage, Home, Health & Beauty, Industrial, Specialty Chemicals, and Community Development and Land Management. The Food & Beverage segment produces packaging materials, and designs and produces packaging solutions primarily for the global food, food service, beverage, dairy and tobacco end markets, as well as paperboard for commercial printing. The Home, Health & Beauty segment designs and produces packaging solutions for the global personal care, fragrance, home care, lawn and garden, prescription drug and healthcare end markets. The Industrial segment designs and produces corrugated packaging solutions, primarily for produce, meat, consumer products and bulk goods primarily in Brazil. This segment also includes operations in India, which develop corrugated packaging materials as well as corrugated packaging solutions for the domestic fresh produce growers. The Specialty Chemicals segment manufactures markets and distributes specialty chemicals derived from sawdust and other byproducts of the papermaking process in North America, Europe, South America and Asia. Its products include performance chemicals derived from pine chemicals used in printing inks, asphalt paving and adhesives as well as the agricultural, paper and petroleum industries. This segment also includes products based on activated carbon used in gas vapor emission control systems for automobiles and trucks and applications for air, water and food purification. The Community Development and Land Management segment include the operations of Real Estate Development, Forestry and Leasing Activities. MeadWestvaco was founded in 2001 and was headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Part of Holden Industries, Inc., Setco, Inc. is a company that manufactures and rebuilds spindles and slides. The company is based in Cincinnati, OH.

APTG Ltd. operates as a holding company. It provides mechanical and pressure-controlled primary packaging technologies and dispensing systems for manufacturers and suppliers of cosmetic, body care, pharmaceutical and food products. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Baar, Switzerland.

Peninsula Packaging LLC manufactures containers and other packaging products for food storage. It offers containers for bakery, salad, and other food produced. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Exeter, CA.

The Institute of Packaging Professionals organizes trade shows. The non-profit company is based in Naperville, IL.

National Association of Container Distributors engages in the distribution of packaging components by establishing the market connection between manufacturers and producers and users. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Glen Ellyn, IL.