Shorewood Packaging

American printing company specializing in several forms of paper and cardboard packaging for consumer products in the US, and through subsidiaries in Canada, UK (Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd.) and China. Also listed as "SPC" or "Shorewood Packaging Corporation", or its products "Unipak", "Shorepak", "Interpak", etc. Some LP jackets have printed in the fold "Unipak", "Unipak U.S. Patent No. 3,426,960", Unipak T.M. or "Unipak Patent Pending". When these package trademarks appear on the release LCCN should be "Made By" Shorewood Packaging. Founded in 1966, SPC opened a plant in Farmingdale, New York in 1967, and in LaGrange, Georgia in 1979. It would lease or own several other plants in North America, UK, Holland, Bermuda, and China over the next several decades. In the late 1960s the company formed a joint venture with CBS Records to package records in the US and Canada and purchased the CBS share of the US company in the 1970s and of the Canadian and UK subsidiaries in 1985. It ended UK operations in early 1992. In the 1960s, owner Paul Shore invented the Shorepak, a record jacket printed directly on bleached paperboard instead of by gluing the album cover to the board. In 2000, the company was acquired by International Paper, and in 2012 International Paper merged Shorewood Packaging with Atlas Holdings' AGI World to create ASG (AGI-Shorewood Group) Shorewood printings can be identified by the presence of a "501" or "0501" on the sleeve or artwork. This number can be entered as "Other (Printing Code)" in the BaOI and Shorewood Packaging in "Printed By" in the LCCN.