Tinsley Robor Group Ltd.

Major printing, packaging & innovative design group (holding company). Operating under this name from 25 February 1969 to 23 September 1983. Now known as "AGI World Ltd." (since 11 November 2010).

The Company was incorporated on 25 February 1969, through the acquisition of "S.Tinsley & Co. Ltd", "Robor-Bradstreet Ltd" and James Upton Ltd. in the early 70s.

In 1974 the group approached Steinemann Technology (Switzerland) to invent a new type of machine to coat cardboard products with UV varnish, the group took deliver of this new innovative machine (Uvimat -126) shortly after. The new process was a game changer allowing the company to cut costs by half and speed up the printing process ten-fold, as opposed to the slower expensive method involved in lamination.

Throughout the early 1990s the company continued to expand in the multimedia market through its subsidiaries, opening new plants to serve DADC Austria.

The company was the sole licensee for Van De Steeg whom was the European licensee for the Digipak® brand and the owner of its own patented packaging products.

In 1998 the group was acquired by / and became part of Impac Group Inc. (private equity group) which was subsequently acquired in 2000 by Westvaco later to become MeadWestvaco.
In 2010, parent company MeadWestvaco (MWV) agreed to sell its Media & Entertainment business "AGI World" operating as Shorewood Packaging to create ASG (AGI-Shorewood Group).

Full legal entity name: Tinsley-Robor Group Limited
UK Company number: 00948696

Company name changes / timeline since incorporation:
25 February 1969 to 23 September 1983 - Tinsley-Robor Group Limited (this page)
23 September 1983 to 30 March 1988 - Tinsley-Robor Group PLC
30 March 1988 to 10 December 1998 - Tinsley Robor Plc
10th December 1998 to 1 April 1999 - Tinsley Robor Limited
1 April 1999 to 29 January 2001 - Impac Europe Limited
29 January 2001 to 11 November 2010 - AGI Media Packaging Europe Limited
11 November 2010 to AGI World Limited