Says Scotts’ Mike Wyman, “MeadWestvaco Calmar is always at the forefront of design and innovation. The company is also cost-savings proactive. MeadWestvaco Calmar’s cost-saving and innovation ideas come from a variety of areas, including logistics, shipments, re-design, component review and reductions in raw material use. Calmar is truly dedicated to Scotts.”

For more than six years, MeadWestvaco Calmar has supplied Scotts with liquid-dispensing systems used in herbicide, pesticide and fertilizer products; MeadWestvaco Calmar is currently Scotts’ largest vendor of packaging products worldwide, supplying trigger sprayers and custom dispensing systems. In 2005, Calmar supplied 100 percent of Scott’s trigger sprayers and proprietary dispensing systems (including the very successful Pull N Spray™ system) for Scotts’ Miracle-Gro®, Ortho® and Roundup® products. Products for Scotts are manufactured at Calmar’s plants in Winfield, Kansas; Grandview, Missouri; Hemer, Germany; and China.

Adds Ben Scheu, executive vice president and general manager of MeadWestvaco Calmar’s Cleaning and Chemical Products Division, “Our relationship with Scotts has grown significantly through the commitment of the employees of both companies. The high level of open communication used to understand the challenges and meet the ultimate customers’ needs has been outstanding.”