Beauty Industry

MeadWestvaco Seals PolyTop Deal

The acquisition of the closure manufacturer will help the company serve packaging end-markets that it has targeted for profitable growth around the world.

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By: Jamie Matusow

Editor-in-Chief

MeadWestvaco Corporation has completed its acquisition of Polytop Corporation, a leading dispensing closure company, on December 30, 2011. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. MeadWestvaco Corporation provides packaging solutions to many brands in the beauty and personal care, healthcare, food, beverage, and other industries. Polytop’s offices and manufacturing facilities, located in Slatersville, Rhode Island, will remain in full operation and become an important part of MWV’s primary plastic operations and global manufacturing platform.

“The acquisition of Polytop extends our participation in attractive packaging end-markets that we have targeted for profitable growth around the world,” said John A. Luke, Jr. MWV chairman and chief executive officer.


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