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Speed & Versatility. Shrink Sleeve.

360° coverage on virtually any shape, fast to produce and built for versatility: sleeve labeling and banding for plastic containers, glass bottles and jars, aluminum cans, and multipacks across our highly automated production lines.

What We Do

Shrink sleeves give your products premium visual impact through 360° displays. Maximum artwork area for complex container shapes, plus tamper-evident bands, multipack applications, and full-body coverage.

Three reasons to choose shrink sleeve.

01 — Speed

Speed to shelf.

Shrink sleeve offers a powerful combination of speed and versatility. Our highly automated production lines and streamlined prepress workflows help accelerate your brand’s speed to market.

  • Automated production lines
  • Short prepress cycles
  • Quick reorder turnaround and decoration/stocking agreements
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An HTH Pool Care Algae Guard+ Ultra bottle with a full-body shrink sleeve label, set beside a pool
02 — Coverage

360° design area.

Maximum artwork area on any shape, including complex contoured containers a flat label can’t handle. Premium visual impact and marketing exposure through full-body, full-color 360° displays.

  • Any shape, any size
  • Full-body and partial sleeves
  • Photographic-quality print
Bring us your container
White bottles receiving yellow shrink sleeves on an ILLING sleeve applicator
03 — Materials

Versatile. Multimaterial.

Full-coverage shrink sleeves handle branding, tamper-evident safety, recyclability, and variable runs, all from the same line. One technology that works across the containers your products already come in.

  • Aluminum aerosol cans
  • Glass bottles & jars
  • Plastic containers
Match it to your container
Shrink-sleeved containers on a shelf: an Aeria aerosol can, an Ole Smoky glass jar, and four Leisure Time spa care bottles and tubs

Shrink Sleeve at Work

In the wild.

A selection of recent shrink sleeve work across outdoor, food, sporting goods, and beverage applications, run on our automated lines.

  • Dead Down Wind field spray bottles with full-body shrink sleeves on a hunting pack in the woods
    Outdoor Scent control in the field
  • A row of Kernel Season’s popcorn seasoning shakers with full-body shrink sleeves on a grocery shelf
    Food Popcorn seasoning shakers
  • Dead Down Wind odor eliminating field spray bottles with full-body shrink sleeves on a store shelf
    Sporting Goods Trigger spray bottles
  • Loony lemonade seltzer cans with full-body shrink sleeves on a refrigerator shelf
    Beverage Seltzer can sleeves

From Artwork to Pallet

How a shrink sleeve run moves through ILLING.

  1. 01

    Artwork

    Submit vector files. Distortion compensation for shaped containers and color profiling.

  2. 02

    Sleeve Print

    High-resolution sleeve printing on shrink film matched to your container substrate.

  3. 03

    Application

    Sleeves applied to containers on our automated production lines.

  4. 04

    Heat Tunnel

    Controlled heat shrinks the sleeve to conform precisely to the container shape.

  5. 05

    Fulfillment

    Decorated containers shipped from the closest of our four warehouses.

Frequently Asked

Questions for the record.

Common questions about shrink sleeve decoration. Reach out if yours isn’t here.

What container shapes can be sleeved?
Virtually any rigid container: bottles, jars, cans, and complex contoured shapes that flat labels can’t handle. The sleeve conforms precisely to the container in the heat tunnel.
How fast can you turn around a shrink sleeve job?
Shrink sleeve is one of the faster decoration methods we run, thanks to our automated lines and short prepress cycles. Specific turnaround depends on substrate, sleeve size, and run length. Reach out with your project details for a quote on lead time.
Can you do tamper-evident bands?
Yes. Tamper-evident shrink banding is a core capability for consumer safety applications. Bands can be combined with full-body sleeves on the same container.
What about multipack bundling?
Multipack bundling is one of our specialty applications, great for promotional packs, retail-ready bundles, and any multi-unit format that needs to ship and display as a single SKU.
How does shrink sleeve compare to direct print?
Shrink sleeve wins on run speed, full 360° coverage, and complex container shapes. Direct print (silk screen) wins on durability and a no-label premium feel. We do both in-house. We’ll recommend the right method for your application.

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