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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!

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

New Fully Automatic Soil Bagging Line Runs at 30 Bags Per Minute

03/26/2012
A recently installed turn-key automated bagging system for soil products has met the exacting requirements of Markman Peat, an Iowa-based national provider of high-quality bagged peat and soil products. Project engineers from nVenia’s HAMER Brand designed a new line to help Markman meet growing production requirements and assist them in...

Robotic Bag Palletizers Combine High Speeds and Low Cost

03/26/2012
First introduced in 2010, the low-cost robotic palletizing systems offered by nVenia’s HAMER Brand bring a new level of efficiency to producers who could not afford high-cost palletizing solutions.   Complete palletizing systems can be relatively low cost for even a small company.   Whether you are looking to reduce direct labor costs or improve plant efficiency,...

Seed Bagging Plants Show Productivity and Profitability Gains with New Gross Weigh Scales

05/12/2011
Hand bagging seeds for agricultural use is done in hundreds of small plants across North America and thousands worldwide.   For the past 30 years, simple gross weigh hand bagging scales have been the heart of these bagging lines. Easy to use and maintain, they provide the basic function of clamping a bag in...

Fertilizer Bagging Automation Provides Significant Cost Reductions to Producers

05/12/2011
Fertilizer companies are recognizing the significant impact bagging automation has on their bottom-line profitability.  Form, fill & seal bagging automation from nVenia’s HAMER Brand utilizes thermal transfer printing to print real-time fertilizer blend formulations on a bag while in the bagging process, reducing the number of bags a producer must have on hand.   Automation also reduces the labor costs of the...