2014 marks NEM’s 40th year in business. As part of our year-long celebration, we have prepared a special edition of our bi-annual newsletter. The issue offers a mini history of how the company started, trivia from 1974 (i.e. what film won the Oscar that year), a long list of NEM’s accomplishments and new machinery/technology introductions, photos of popular NEM models ‘then’ and ‘now’, and more.
If you don’t receive the newsletter and would like a copy mailed to you, contact me at (941) 755-5550 to have your name and address added to the mailing list. This is a great issue you won’t want to miss.
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, January 29, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
Celebrating Our Anniversary
New England Machinery, Inc. wants to share our 40th Anniversary celebration with our customers. In honor of the occasion our Parts and Service Departments are offering limited time specials.
Between January 1, 2014 and March 31, 2014 customers ordering change parts for rotary and in-line cappers and rotary orienters will receive a 20% discount on the change parts. Customers ordering unscrambler change parts will receive a 10% discount on the change parts.
Between April 1, 2014 and June 30, 2014 customers purchasing a Service Contract will receive a 10% discount on travel time and labor service rates.
We hope the discounts show our customers how truly grateful we are for their patronage. We would not be here if not for our wonderful customers. Forty years and still growing is quite an accomplishment for which we are really proud to celebrate.
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.
Between January 1, 2014 and March 31, 2014 customers ordering change parts for rotary and in-line cappers and rotary orienters will receive a 20% discount on the change parts. Customers ordering unscrambler change parts will receive a 10% discount on the change parts.
Between April 1, 2014 and June 30, 2014 customers purchasing a Service Contract will receive a 10% discount on travel time and labor service rates.
We hope the discounts show our customers how truly grateful we are for their patronage. We would not be here if not for our wonderful customers. Forty years and still growing is quite an accomplishment for which we are really proud to celebrate.
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, January 22, 2014
Interpack Show – Dusseldorf Germany
The world’s largest packaging machinery trade show takes place every three years in Dusseldorf, Germany. The show is Interpack and will be held in 2014 from May 8-14. Packaging machinery suppliers from all over the world set up stands to show their latest models. Companies seeking new machinery and/or new technology take advantage of this great opportunity to see what’s new and make their purchasing plans.
New England Machinery will be at this year’s show exhibiting our monoblock unscrambler/secondary orienter. This low profile design is ideal for companies that need to run multiple SKU’s on the same line. It offers quick, tool-less changeover and has a space-saving design integrating both the unscrambler and secondary orienter within the same frame.
If you plan to attend Interpack, stop by New England Machinery’s booth in Hall 12 at #12D52. We would love to see you there and show you how this great machine can improve your production line.
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.
New England Machinery will be at this year’s show exhibiting our monoblock unscrambler/secondary orienter. This low profile design is ideal for companies that need to run multiple SKU’s on the same line. It offers quick, tool-less changeover and has a space-saving design integrating both the unscrambler and secondary orienter within the same frame.
If you plan to attend Interpack, stop by New England Machinery’s booth in Hall 12 at #12D52. We would love to see you there and show you how this great machine can improve your production line.
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, January 20, 2014
Upcoming Open House Reminder
This is a reminder in case you forgot, that a dozen or so packaging machinery manufacturers all located in the Tampa Bay Florida area are jointly holding an Open House for our customers.
The week of February 24-28, 2014 the following companies are opening their doors to their customers for the Tampa Bay Packaging Machinery Companies Open House 2014.
Tri-Tronics, Osgood Industries, Westlund Engineering, Polypack, Inc., Film Source International, ABC Packaging Machine Company, Universal Labeling Systems, Inc., New England Machinery, Inc., MDC Engineering, Allied Flex Technologies, In-Line Filling Systems, and Zepf Technologies.
For more information about this event visit our website: www.tampabaypackaging.com. This is a great chance to come to sunny Florida in the middle of winter and see great packaging machinery as it is being made! Call New England Machinery in advance and let us know you are coming (941-755-5550).
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.
The week of February 24-28, 2014 the following companies are opening their doors to their customers for the Tampa Bay Packaging Machinery Companies Open House 2014.
Tri-Tronics, Osgood Industries, Westlund Engineering, Polypack, Inc., Film Source International, ABC Packaging Machine Company, Universal Labeling Systems, Inc., New England Machinery, Inc., MDC Engineering, Allied Flex Technologies, In-Line Filling Systems, and Zepf Technologies.
For more information about this event visit our website: www.tampabaypackaging.com. This is a great chance to come to sunny Florida in the middle of winter and see great packaging machinery as it is being made! Call New England Machinery in advance and let us know you are coming (941-755-5550).
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.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
What Makes a Company Great?
In our most current economy many average companies have had to cut back and some have gone out of business. However, there are others that have managed to flourish. What makes the difference in how a company fares in an economic downturn? Probably the most important factor is how the company is managed by its leaders.
I’m fortunate in that I work for a company that strives for excellence every day. Our leaders do not accept status quo. They realize that ‘resting on your laurels’ is an opportunity for your competitors to jump ahead. It is no longer safe for a company to keep doing what it does best. In a global economy it is imperative that a company keeps stretching and reaching for improvement in all areas. We can no longer simply please our customers. We need to ‘wow’ them. I have a sign on my computer monitor that reminds me of what we need to succeed. It says “Only Satisfied Customers Provide Job Security.”
Great companies never take their customers for granted and continually ‘reinvent’ themselves, finding ways to solve a customer’s problem before the customer even realizes that he has it. What does your company do to continually improve itself?
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.
I’m fortunate in that I work for a company that strives for excellence every day. Our leaders do not accept status quo. They realize that ‘resting on your laurels’ is an opportunity for your competitors to jump ahead. It is no longer safe for a company to keep doing what it does best. In a global economy it is imperative that a company keeps stretching and reaching for improvement in all areas. We can no longer simply please our customers. We need to ‘wow’ them. I have a sign on my computer monitor that reminds me of what we need to succeed. It says “Only Satisfied Customers Provide Job Security.”
Great companies never take their customers for granted and continually ‘reinvent’ themselves, finding ways to solve a customer’s problem before the customer even realizes that he has it. What does your company do to continually improve itself?
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, January 13, 2014
The Recipe for Success
The real recipe for success is simple and all of us have it, we just don’t know it. First, you need to define what success means to you. Now look back at what you have accomplished successfully so far. How did you reach those goals? What did you do to make those things happen? That is your recipe for success.
Now just repeat those actions and possibly improve upon them. Find ways to translate those actions that led to success in the past, to what you need and/or want to do in the future. Being successful isn’t luck, it’s actions that taken at the right time in the right manner, with the right amount of dedication, allow us to ‘win the day.’ For example, if you are a salesperson and you won a big account that you had worked on for a long time, stop and think about what actions finally led to winning that account. It might be a matter of repeated follow up that allowed the customer to recognize someone who cares enough not to ‘give up’. It might be that this customer needed to get to know you better before they felt comfortable giving you a big order. Whatever allowed you to win once, will undoubtedly work again, just take the time to review your actions and repeat them whenever possible.
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.
Now just repeat those actions and possibly improve upon them. Find ways to translate those actions that led to success in the past, to what you need and/or want to do in the future. Being successful isn’t luck, it’s actions that taken at the right time in the right manner, with the right amount of dedication, allow us to ‘win the day.’ For example, if you are a salesperson and you won a big account that you had worked on for a long time, stop and think about what actions finally led to winning that account. It might be a matter of repeated follow up that allowed the customer to recognize someone who cares enough not to ‘give up’. It might be that this customer needed to get to know you better before they felt comfortable giving you a big order. Whatever allowed you to win once, will undoubtedly work again, just take the time to review your actions and repeat them whenever possible.
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, January 8, 2014
Happy 40th Birthday New England Machinery!
2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the start of New England Machinery, Inc. It all started with a sketch on a napkin of a better bottle unscrambler. A couple of packaging engineers doing what they do best—designing machinery to meet the needs of the packaging industry. Forty years later New England Machinery stands as a testament to the ingenuity, determination, hard work, and dedication to excellence of those engineers and all of the individuals who have helped build the company.
We have a lot of plans for celebrating throughout the year starting with our Open House February 24 through the 28. If you have an opportunity to visit the Tampa Bay area during that week you can stop by our plant for a tour. There are eleven other packaging machinery manufacturers in the area that will also be hosting an Open House that week. Give us a call at 941-755-5550 to learn more about the Open House and other 40th Anniversary plans we have in store.
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.
We have a lot of plans for celebrating throughout the year starting with our Open House February 24 through the 28. If you have an opportunity to visit the Tampa Bay area during that week you can stop by our plant for a tour. There are eleven other packaging machinery manufacturers in the area that will also be hosting an Open House that week. Give us a call at 941-755-5550 to learn more about the Open House and other 40th Anniversary plans we have in store.
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, January 6, 2014
Welcome to 2014
If you didn’t accomplish all you wanted to last year, you now have a chance to try again. Plan out your year now, before it really even gets started. Make it a priority to finish and/or accomplish the items that did not happen last year. But before you do that, take some time to determine what prevented you from making it happen in 2013. If you go about it the same way again, chances are you’ll still be unsuccessful.
Albert Einstein once said “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” So if you did not complete a task last year and you do not go about it in a different way this year, it may not happen again. Determine the underlying cause of your failure to complete it in 2013 and make adjustments to compensate for that problem. If you come up to an obstacle you can let it stop you, or you can find a way around it, go under it, or go over it. The decision is yours and it all comes down to how badly you want to accomplish that goal.
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.
Albert Einstein once said “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” So if you did not complete a task last year and you do not go about it in a different way this year, it may not happen again. Determine the underlying cause of your failure to complete it in 2013 and make adjustments to compensate for that problem. If you come up to an obstacle you can let it stop you, or you can find a way around it, go under it, or go over it. The decision is yours and it all comes down to how badly you want to accomplish that goal.
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.
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