Fort Dearborn Company acquires SleeveCo, a shrink sleeve producer

‘The acquisition of SleeveCo further reinforces Fort Dearborn’s leadership position in the prime label marketplace by strengthening our shrink sleeve offering and expanding our product line to include stretch sleeve label capabilities and application equipment,’ said Fort Dearborn president and CEO Jeff Brezek. ‘With the addition of SleeveCo, we will have increased capacity as well as enhanced capabilities to provide our customers more production options and increased flexibility.’

Fort Dearborn supplies a complete range of label solutions including cut and stack, pressure sensitive, roll-fed and full body shrink sleeve labels across multiple printing technologies including digital, lithographic, flexographic and rotogravure. The company will now have an additional facility in Dawsonville, Georgia for a total of 15 production locations across North America. The company’s offerings will be expanded to include additional shrink sleeve capacity and adds stretch sleeve, mid web gravure printing and cylinder engraving capabilities.

‘SleeveCo is a key supplier in the shrink and stretch sleeve market with a reputation for delivering innovative solutions, making it an excellent fit for Fort Dearborn,’ said Martin Wilson, CEO of SleeveCo. ‘Like Fort Dearborn, we are customer-focused and dedicated to delivering the best solutions and will now have additional support and resources to better serve our customers.’

Effective with this announcement, Wilson will become president of the SleeveCo division of Fort Dearborn reporting to Jeff Brezek.