Monday, September 29, 2014

NEM’s 2015 Trade Show Schedule

New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM) is planning a busy 2015 trade show schedule. We will start off the year at the all new Pack Expo East 2015 to be held February 16-18 in Philadelphia, PA. NEM will be located in booth 925 at that show.

In June, we will be at the Expo Pack Mexico Show from the 16-19 at Centro Banamex in Mexico City. NEM’s booth is located in the PMMI pavilion in #2320.

September you will find us at the Pack Expo Las Vegas 2015 show held at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The show will run from September 28-30. NEM will be located in booth C-3800.

Simultaneously running from Sept. 28-30 at the Las Vegas Convention Center will be the Pharma Expo 2015 show. NEM will be located at that show in booth N-304.

We are excited to be exhibiting at these great shows in 2015. Make sure to stop by our booth if you are attending any or all of these shows. We love to see everyone and just say ‘Hi’ even if you are not looking for machinery.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Do You Offer Formal Training for New Hires?

While interviewing recently, I was surprised to be asked if we offer training for new employees. I took it for granted that all companies had a formal training program for their new hires. The individual I was interviewing told me about several positions he had started in the past in which he was expected to learn everything he would need to know about the company and his position on his own. Evidently, no one had the time to train him and there was no formal program in place to assist in the training.

To me, this is a recipe for failure. If you take the time, effort and expense to recruit and hire a new employee, you need to ‘follow through’ and make sure they start off with a strong foundation. They need to know the companies, products, services, policies, common practices, procedures, methodologies, etc. along with the tasks that will be expected of them. If you want long term success, you need to invest in short term foundation building, and training a new employee is what will give you that important base for them to grow on.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.

Monday, September 22, 2014

New England Machinery at NEW Pharma Expo 2014

For the first time ever, PMMI is starting a new trade show geared specifically for the Pharmaceutical/Nutriceutical industry. The first show will be co-located with the Pack Expo International 2014 show and they will both run from Sunday, November 2 through Wednesday, November 5 at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL.

New England Machinery Inc. will have a booth at the Pharma Expo 2014 show. We will be located in booth W-629. We will have our Pharmaceutical Capper and Unscrambler in the booth along with some special surprises! If you would like to attend, give us a call at (941) 755-5550 for a complimentary registration code. The code will allow you to register for free to attend the show. We look forward to seeing everyone there and show off our beautiful line of pharmaceutical equipment. Make sure to plan on stopping by our booth in the West hall #629.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

New England Machinery at Pack Expo International 2014

The Pack Expo International 2014 trade show is coming up soon. It will start on Sunday, November 2 and run through Wednesday, November 5 at McCormick Place in Chicago. New England Machinery will be there in booth S-3506 to exhibit our latest packaging machinery designs as well as celebrate our 40th Anniversary.

We have a terrific line-up of equipment we plan to take and some new surprises to unveil at the show. If you wish to attend, NEM can assist you in registering for free. Contact our office at (941) 755-5550 to get the Complimentary Code that will allow you to register without charge to attend the show. You can also schedule an appointment with one of our Sales Managers to meet at the show.

Whether you are beginning a new packaging line, refurbishing an old one, or just want to see the latest in packaging technology, this is a must go to show. Mark your schedule to stop by NEM’s booth in the South Hall at 3506 to help us celebrate 40 years in business!

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Container Capping, Lidding, Plugging, Pump Placing and More

Container closing is an important part of every production line. If the product is not contained properly, it can leak, become contaminated and ultimately costs the producer money. There are as many methods of closing a container as there are types of closures. With over forty years of experience in the packaging machinery industry, New England Machinery has developed numerous products to close containers.

NEM offers a full line of cappers including rotary chuck cappers in single and multi-head models, servo cappers (for precise, recordable applied torque), lidders (for cans, cups, etc.), pluggers for inserting pibas, plugs or caps inside the openings, pump placers, for sorting and placing finger, lotion or trigger pumps onto containers, and ancillary products such as cap tightener/retorquers. If you need to close a container and want to make sure it is done effectively and efficiently, contact NEM.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.

Monday, September 8, 2014

About Our Website

Have you visited our website lately? Our web address is: www.neminc.com and it is a really great website. We have gotten hundreds of compliments on it. The website offers everything you need to know about New England Machinery’s products. They are easy to find via several drop down lists. It offers interesting case studies depicting challenges that some of our customers have brought to us and how we have resolved them. There are White Papers that assist in educating the reader on various topics. There are videos of our equipment running, a calendar of NEM upcoming shows, and copies of our newsletters.

We are currently working on some new features for the website and will be announcing them in the coming months. So make sure to visit it frequently to keep up with the latest information on NEM and our products and initiatives all designed to help our customers keep their packaging machinery lines running efficiently and effectively.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

How To Take the Best Bottle Unscrambler and Make It Better

In my last blog I noted how New England Machinery is an expert on plastic bottle unscramblers. So how did they take the world’s best unscrambler line and make it better? They monoblocked it with their line of secondary orienters! Now we can offer our customers a space-saving footprint that allows them to feed bulk containers, unscramble the containers, place them on the production line, and secondary orient them all in a smaller footprint. They can save on valuable floorspace and accomplish the proper feeding and line placement of the containers.

What is even better, is that New England Machinery can offer various models of bottle unscramblers and secondary orienters in different combinations. This gives us an exceptionally broad range of options for our customers. We are not limited to one or two designs, we actually have dozens of combinations. One size does not fit all in the packaging machinery industry. For customer-centric innovation, New England Machinery is unsurpassed.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.