Its economy is dominated by MeadWestvaco, which operates a paperboard mill in Covington, the second largest on the East Coast and an extrusion and converting facility in Low Moor.
After an Arthur D. Little study indicated that the information retrieval product had a promising future, Mead Data Central launched it as the LEXIS legal research system in 1973.
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MeadWestvaco was formed in January 2002 as the result of a merger between The Mead Corporation of Dayton, Ohio, and Westvaco (originally the Piedmont Pulp and Paper Company and then The West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company).
Today MeadWestvaco still binds their books in the same metal spiral-coil.
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Spiral Binding’s customers grew, and like MeadWestvaco, many wanted to bring their binding processes in-house.
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Western Pad and Tablet (now MeadWestvaco) becomes another of Spiral Binding's big clients, who hired Spiral Binding to bind their school notebooks.