Packaging Graphics Renews Agreement with Meadwestvaco to Produce Natralock Packaging

PAWTUCKET, R.I., April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Packaging Graphics LLC, a division of The MATLET Group, announced that it has extended its  licensing agreement with MeadWestvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV) for its Natralock® security packaging products. Under the agreement, Packaging Graphics will utilize MeadWestvaco's Natralock technology to manufacture and market theft-deterrent packaging products in North America until the year 2015.

Packaging Graphics has had a licensing agreement with Meadwestvaco for Natralock  since 2007. Since that time, the company has produced Natralock packaging for customers in almost every retail market, including home and personal care, cosmetics, electronics and office products.

"Our customers were looking for a more user-friendly packaging for consumers that provided the product security required by retailers." Said Nick Carafa, president of Packaging Graphics, "Natralock serves us in both respects, and it lends itself well to the print process, so we can achieve the bold graphics that make packaging effective in the retail environment".

Natralock security packaging features a proprietary tear-resistant paperboard that can be RF-sealed, with approximately one-third the energy required for plastic clamshells, or heat-sealed on most existing equipment.  Offered in both SBS and CNK® grades, Natralock paperboard can include 30% to 50% recycled content, is a renewable, easy-to-recycle material that reduces the use of plastic by 50% to 60% and provides superior price stability.  The glare-free billboard can be custom designed to differentiate consumer products and supports high quality reproduction for bolder graphics and special printing effects to enhance branding. Consumers prefer Natralock packaging's safer opening and improved shopping experience compared to often injurious struggles with sharp-edged plastic clamshells.  

Companies using Natralock packaging have been able to reduce their use of plastic packaging, enabling them to be environmentally responsible, while still developing packaging that has impact.

About Packaging Graphics

Packaging Graphics, LLC, is an industry leader in providing printed blister cards, folding cartons, insert, stretch pack cards, skin sheets as well as, thermoformed blisters, clamshells and trays.  Packaging Graphics, LLC is both ISO 9001 and 14001 certified and a Certified Minority Business Enterprise and Corporate Plus® Member of the NMSDC. www.packgraph.com

About MeadWestvaco

MeadWestvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV) provides packaging solutions to many of the world's most-admired brands in the food and beverage, media and entertainment, personal care, home and garden, cosmetics, and healthcare industries.  The company has market-leading positions in its Consumer & Office Products and Specialty Chemicals businesses, and operates in more than 30 countries.  MeadWestvaco manages all of its forestlands in accordance with internationally recognized forest certification standards, and has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the fourth consecutive year.  For more information, please visit us at www.meadwestvaco.com.

About The MATLET Group

Based in Pawtucket RI, The MATLET Group is a full service commercial printing & fulfillment company with three facilities in the United States, including Packaging Graphics in Pawtucket, RI; Central Florida Press in Orlando, FL; and NOVA Marketing Services in St. Louis, MO.  The MATLET Group specializes in high-end and specialty print products such as product brochures, printed packaging for consumer goods, and fulfillment services. The company serves a local and national client base including many Fortune 500 companies in a wide variety of industries. The MATLET Group is a certified Minority Business Enterprise and a Corporate Plus® member of the National Minority Supplier Development Council.  www.thematletgroup.com  

SOURCE The MATLET Group