Fort Dearborn Company has announced that it has acquired SleeveCo, Inc. Moving forward, SleeveCo will become "SleeveCo, a Fort Dearborn Company."

“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,” says Fort Dearborn president & 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 will now have an additional facility in Dawsonville, Georgia for a total of 15 production locations across North America. The company’s solutions offering 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,” says 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, Martin Wilson will become President of the SleeveCo division of Fort Dearborn reporting to Jeff Brezek.

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