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Tailgating for the win: MeadWestvaco, Colbert Packaging take top honors in PPC competition.

For the third time in the past four years, MeadWestvaco Packaging Systems takes the President's Award at the National Paperboard Packaging Competition done by the Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC), now in its 62nd year. With a total of 235 entries in 30 distinct categories, the Tailgate'r beverage carrier muscled its way to the top by demonstrating an ingenious new way of combining a case of beer with a beverage cooler.

Tailgate'r by MeadWestvaco Packaging Systems for Labatt Brewing Co. is designed to conveniently hold 28 cans of beer, plus ice to keep drinks cool, th

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