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Fort Dearborn sets world impression record on Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106

With a significant increase in its business, Fort Dearborn, a custom label and packaging company with 20 locations in the U.S., reached nearly 82 million impressions on its Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106-8+L in 2020. This high level of productivity was critical to Fort Dearborn’s success as demand at grocery stores due to COVID-19 surged.

Printing primarily cut and stack labels, the Fort Worth location of Fort Dearborn is equipped with two Speedmaster XL 105s and one other XL 106 in addition to its world-record press, which was installed in July 2019. In comparison to similar machines in the market, the XL 106 at Fort Dearborn produced more than 2.5 times the number of annual gross impressions than the industry average of 32 million. Fort Dearborn credits its record-breaking performance to the advanced technology of the press, its increased business in 2020, and its overall plant strategy and teamwork mentality.

“When we installed our newest XL 106, it almost doubled the horsepower of the older press we replaced. Without it, we would have never been able to keep up with the increased demand in our business during 2020,” said Bob Zeisler, general manager of the Fort Worth plant.