Linpac Containers
A paper and plastics packaging business, also later a maker of plastic automotive components [1]
1959 Established by Evan Cornish as Lincolnshire Packaging Co in Louth, Lincs, serving local food producers with packaging.[2]
1963 Renamed Lin-Pac Containers Ltd
1969 Name changed to Lin-Pac Corrugated Cases Ltd. Formation of Lin-Pac Plastics Ltd, maker of plastic packaging and other plastic goods.
By 1975 the group was called Lin-Pac Containers
1975 With the assistance of the DTI, acquired an injection moulding and blow moulding operation making products under the names Rosedale, Conway Stewart and Lumex which were in liquidation; it would henceforth be operated as Lin-Pac Mouldings Ltd[3]
1975 Lin-Pac Plastics Ltd was renamed Lin Pac Plastics International Ltd
1982 Lin-Pac was part of a consortium which tried to take-over another packaging group, Cope Allman and Co[4]
1985 Lin-Pac Containers was renamed Lin Pac Containers
1987 formation of Lin Pac Group
1992 Evan Cornish retired; his son Michael took over as chairman of the business
1994 Lin Pac Plastics International Ltd was renamed Lin Pac Plastics Ltd
2002 In conjunction with 2 other corrugated packaging businesses, set up a unit in Southern Europe[5]
2003 The family-owned business was acquired by Montague Private Equity[6]
2004 Acquired by D. S. Smith