Top Flexible Packaging Converters
April 2004
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A singular focus on sleeve labels, from design through application, is at the heart of SleeveCo's success as a flexible packaging converter.
SHRINKING IS GOOD for SleeveCo—that's what they do best. Since the company's inception in 1988, this Dawsonville, Ga.-based flexible packaging converter has been completely dedicated to sleeve labels, both shrink and stretch.
This singular focus on sleeve labels is what makes the company distinctive, says Martin Wilson, vice president of sales and marketing. He also says it's the reason why SleeveCo has been able to work with some of the world's largest and most innovative consumer goods companies on many challenging projects.
SleeveCo is a family-owned business with more than 125 employees and 7 printing presses. In addition to a full in-house prepress and graphic arts department, it also focuses further downstream in the process, manufacturing a wide range of sleeve-application equipment. When dealing with complex implementations of shrink labels, everything must be done right—from design through application—and SleeveCo offers expertise throughout the entire process.
The company has recently completed a major $5 million expansion program to support its growth plans, adding about 10,000 square feet to its facility. The expansion also included a new eight-color flexographic printing press; a laminating system; 8-, 9-, and 11-color rotogravure presses; a rotogravure printing press with laminating capabilities; an expanded platemaking department; an art department; a computer-controlled 16-station ink blending system; and a new quality control laboratory.
Producing high-quality shrink sleeves
SleeveCo provides shrink labels for some very demanding markets, including automotive aftermarket, cosmetics, consumer goods, and lawn and garden products. It uses solvent-based inks on a range of substrates that includes PVC, high-shrink PVC, PETG, OPS, and OPP for gravure printing and PP for its flexo printing.
For its printing presses, SleeveCo has settled on Chesnut presses on the gravure side and PCMC presses for flexo. Wilson says the main reasons for the use of these presses include the support they have always received from the two companies, along with the companies' reputations in the industry.
In addition, he says, "The quality that these presses produce allows us to be more competitive in our markets. We also have the only 11-color Chesnut press in our industry, which allows us to offer our customers more vibrant labels. The PCMC and Chesnut presses provide us with the ability to deliver exceptional products time after time to our customers and to use specialty inks."
SHRINKING IS GOOD for SleeveCo—that's what they do best. Since the company's inception in 1988, this Dawsonville, Ga.-based flexible packaging converter has been completely dedicated to sleeve labels, both shrink and stretch.
This singular focus on sleeve labels is what makes the company distinctive, says Martin Wilson, vice president of sales and marketing. He also says it's the reason why SleeveCo has been able to work with some of the world's largest and most innovative consumer goods companies on many challenging projects.
SleeveCo is a family-owned business with more than 125 employees and 7 printing presses. In addition to a full in-house prepress and graphic arts department, it also focuses further downstream in the process, manufacturing a wide range of sleeve-application equipment. When dealing with complex implementations of shrink labels, everything must be done right—from design through application—and SleeveCo offers expertise throughout the entire process.
The company has recently completed a major $5 million expansion program to support its growth plans, adding about 10,000 square feet to its facility. The expansion also included a new eight-color flexographic printing press; a laminating system; 8-, 9-, and 11-color rotogravure presses; a rotogravure printing press with laminating capabilities; an expanded platemaking department; an art department; a computer-controlled 16-station ink blending system; and a new quality control laboratory.
Producing high-quality shrink sleeves
SleeveCo provides shrink labels for some very demanding markets, including automotive aftermarket, cosmetics, consumer goods, and lawn and garden products. It uses solvent-based inks on a range of substrates that includes PVC, high-shrink PVC, PETG, OPS, and OPP for gravure printing and PP for its flexo printing.
For its printing presses, SleeveCo has settled on Chesnut presses on the gravure side and PCMC presses for flexo. Wilson says the main reasons for the use of these presses include the support they have always received from the two companies, along with the companies' reputations in the industry.
In addition, he says, "The quality that these presses produce allows us to be more competitive in our markets. We also have the only 11-color Chesnut press in our industry, which allows us to offer our customers more vibrant labels. The PCMC and Chesnut presses provide us with the ability to deliver exceptional products time after time to our customers and to use specialty inks."
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