MeadWestvaco Corporation provides packaging solutions to healthcare, beauty and personal care, food, beverage, home and garden, tobacco, and agricultural industries worldwide. It operates through five segments: Food & Beverage; Home, Health & Beauty; Industrial; Specialty Chemicals; and Community Development and Land Management. The Food & Beverage segment produces packaging materials, as well as designs and produces packaging solutions primarily for the food, food service, beverage, dairy, and tobacco end markets, as well as offers paperboard for commercial printing. The Home, Health & Beauty segment designs and produces packaging solutions for the 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 and India. The Specialty Chemicals segment manufactures, markets, and distributes specialty chemicals derived from sawdust and other byproducts. Its products include performance chemicals derived from pine chemicals used in printing inks, asphalt paving, and adhesives, as well as in the agricultural, paper, and petroleum industries. This segment also offers products based on activated carbon used in gas vapor emission control systems for automobiles and trucks, as well as for air, water, and food purification applications. The Community Development and Land Management segment engages in real estate development, forestry, and leasing operations
