Blogs

Explore a variety of packaging industry thought leadership pieces from our internal subject matter experts, read compelling case studies, hear from our service techs about helpful maintenance tips and tricks and more here in the nVenia Blog. Do you have a question you would like answered? Or a subject matter in the packaging industry you would like to learn more about?  Let us know!

nVenia HAMER Brand Robotic Palletizer

Top Yaskawa Motoman Robotics Integrator in North America Two Years in a Row!

01/12/2015
nVenia’s HAMER Brand was recognized as a top Yaskawa Motoman Robotics Integrator in North America in 2012 and 2013. Motoman Robotics’ Strategic Partner Program designates this award for the “Best in Class” integrators and application developers that partner with a robot manufacturer based on mutual investment and return. Geographical reach,...
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HAMER Brand Model 600NW Auger Feed Net Weigh Scale

Net Weigh Scales: The Heart of Bagging Profitability

01/05/2015
With thousands of net weigh scales in use worldwide, the scale is often the most overlooked part of any automatic bagging installation. Most net weigh scales in use today were developed over 30-40 years ago. But even then, some recent “new designs” are still based on outdated design concepts and do not offer significant...
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HAMER Brand Model 300VF Volumetric Filler

Next Generation Bagging Equipment Reduces Costs by up to 60%

12/31/2014
The latest line of nVenia HAMER Brand industrial bagging equipment, including our Model 300VF Volumetric Filler, Model 600NW Net Weigh Scale and Models 2090 and 3100 Industrial Form, Fill & Seal automated bagging machines have been designed from the ground up to lower labor and maintenance costs by demonstrating:  Longer run times on components  Less maintenance and fewer replacement parts needed ...
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HAMER Brand 2090 Beats Competition in Automated Bagging of Mulch/Soil

12/23/2014
nVenia’s HAMER Brand paces the field in total mulch and soils automated bagging production volume and machine up time in the Mulch/Soil bagging industry with its Model 2090 Form, Fill & Seal. We recently installed a new full line into a customer’s facility where they have 3 automated bagging production lines.   Two of the lines were competitive...
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Automate Your Industrial Bagging

04/11/2014
Increase profits and reduce labor costs and production downtime with bagging automation from nVenia’s HAMER Brand. Using our experience in building over a thousand industrial Form, Fill & Seal machines, we developed the first high speed, high reliability, low operator interaction machine for automating industrial bagging. Check out the many...
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nVenia HAMER Brand Model 540

A Look at Upgrades and Options on Our Ice Bagging Machines

04/08/2014
The engineering and service teams at nVenia’s HAMER Brand have the functional operation of our Model 540 Form, Fill & Seal, the most popular ice bagging machine we offer.             As a standard of the packaged ice industry, our team researched methods to increase uptime,...
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Model 600NW Refuge In a Bag Scale for Seed Bagging

10/16/2013
Seed producers have specific EPA guidelines they need to meet – with every bag they sell. To meet those needs, nVenia’s HAMER Brand Model 600NW RIB Gravity Feed secondary vibratory feed meets EPA insect resistance management (IRM) program requirements for bagged and boxed packaged seed. This technology allows growers to...
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Reliable and Accurate Bagging: 100GW Gross Weigh Scale

09/09/2013
The 100GW Gross Weigh Scale from nVenia’s HAMER Brand is an accurate and reliable alternative to older scale designs. The two load cell design and digital weigh indicator makes this scale accurate within +/- 1oz, much higher accuracy rates than your old bagging scale. This decreases product giveaway and increases...
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nVenia HAMER Brand Robotic Palletizer

Palletizing Systems Slash Workers’ Comp and Labor Costs

08/22/2013
Automatic robotic palletizing systems offer a very cost-effective alternative to plant labor for the repetitive task of bag stacking and palletizing. Robotic palletizers are low cost, offer a great return on investment and eliminate direct labor, staffing and employee management needs. Many of our customers have had difficulty staffing bag...
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Mulch Manufacturing: Automation Upgrade

07/13/2013
Mulch Manufacturing of Callahan, Florida, invested early in bagging automation. Their first generation of Form, Fill & Seal machines from nVenia’s HAMER Brand worked well for over 8 years, but early in 2010 they felt it was time for an upgrade. After reviewing competing equipment, their management team flew to...
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nVenia’s HAMER Brand Leads Pellet Fuel Bagging Automation

03/30/2012
Since 1994, the form, fill & seal machines from nVenia’s HAMER Brand have provided efficient, low-cost automated bagging solutions to the Pellet Fuel Industry. Today, the HAMER Model 2090 not only provides a cost-effective solution, but when coupled with a Model 600NW  net weigh scale, provides the easiest to run,...
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HAMER Brand Model 600NW Auger Feed Net Weigh Scale

Bagging Scale Technology Runs Faster, More Accurately

03/30/2012
To put it simply, the nVenia HAMER Brand Model 600NW simplex gravity feed scale outperforms every other net weigh bagging scale produced. The Model 600NW, with its first generation introduced in 2007, offers simplex (single scale) gravity feed bagging rates of 22-24 bags per minute on most 50 lb bags,...
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