Monday, February 9, 2015

NEM Plant Tour At Tampa Bay Packaging Machinery Mfgs. Open House

NEM will be opening our doors to plant tours during the upcoming Tampa Bay Packaging Machinery Manufacturer’s Open House. Fourteen local packaging machinery manufacturers are banding together to offer plant tours the week of February 23 – 27, 2015. Get out of the ice, snow and cold in the middle of winter to scope out your next packaging machine purchases in sunny Florida.

The various manufacturing plants offer unscramblers, cappers, orienters, lidders, pluggers, scoop feeders, pump placers, labelers, check weighers, case packers, fillers and much more. To learn more about the Open House week visit the website at: www.tampabaypackaging.com or give us a call at New England Machinery at (941) 755-5550. We can give you contact information for local hotels with discounted rates. Let us know you are coming, or just show up, either way, we’d love to see you.

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, February 4, 2015

NEM at Pack Expo East 2015

New England Machinery is pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at the upcoming Pack Expo East show February 16-18, 2015 at the Philadelphia Convention Center. We will be located in booth 925. Please make sure to stop by our booth if you are planning to attend the show.

We will be bringing our new pharmaceutical design unscrambler. This model was specifically designed for the pharmaceutical industry with no flat surfaces, compact footprint including a fully-integrated hopper elevator, and track and trace ready code printer and code reader. You won’t want to miss us at the show.

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, February 2, 2015

Take the Best and Make It Better – Retrofit Packages

We are embarking on a new product line this year that will help all of our customers. We decided to create ‘retrofit packages’ for our existing machines out in the field. New England Machinery’s continual improvement policy has born some really great new changes with updated technologies for our machines. We now want to offer customers who have older models the ability to upgrade to some of these new functionalities.

We have just announced the beginning of our retrofit packages and our customers are excited to learn that they can improve performance or functionality on their existing machines. The first package we released (an adjustable inner orienter spacer) will shorten the changeover time on our unscramblers. This retrofit is capable of being added to all existing unscramblers in the field. Our next package will allow the addition of a stack light on any NEM machine when that option was not initially chosen at the time of original sale. More retrofit packages are in the works and will be announced shortly.

We are happy to be able to take our improvements and make them available to customers who may not be able to purchase a new machine but want some of the newer technologies available on their older model. We have a hit on our hands and are excited about this new capability.

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 5, 2015

Welcome to 2015!

Well, here we are at the start of another year. At New England Machinery we have big plans for this year. We took the time at the end of 2014 to make lists of goals and objectives for the new year. Now it’s time to start implementing those plans. It’s exciting to start new and fresh with projects that challenge and absorb us.

If you want to re-energize and re-engage your staff, come up with some new goals that everyone is excited about and get to work on them. Find ways to include everyone so they all feel like a part of the progress. Ask everyone to write down some of their ideas for improvements in the new year. You may be surprised at some of the responses. It will make for a great 2015.

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, December 17, 2014

A Very Happy Holiday Season To All

On behalf of everyone at New England Machinery, Inc., we wish a very merry holiday season to one and all. We hope you can take some time as the year draws to a close to spend with your family and friends, appreciate your good fortune, reflect on how you can improve in the coming year, and just relax and enjoy the end of 2014.

We wish a very healthy, happy and prosperous 2015 to all as we look forward to another great year with much more and better challenges and opportunities!

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, December 15, 2014

White Papers Help Educate Your Customers

White Papers are a great resource for educating your customers and prospective customers. It allows them the opportunity to learn about a subject without feeling the pressure of a salesperson hoping to sell them a product. Then, when they are ready to buy, they know what questions to ask and will understand the answers and concept of the technology being discussed.

New England Machinery recently released a White Paper on ‘Why Do I Need an HMI?’ We discovered our customers had a lot of questions regarding HMI’s and wanted to know more about them. We offer the paper for free on our website so that our visitors can take advantage of this learning opportunity.

What subject/topic might make a good white paper for your company? Ask one of your company experts to write it up. You can never offer your customers too many opportunities to learn more about your products and services.

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, December 10, 2014

What Sets Your Company Apart?

Unless you are first to market with a brand new product that never existed before, you are competing with other companies that are offering the same product as yours. So it’s vitally important to be able to define what it is that makes your company and/or its products better than the others. Why should potential customers buy from you instead of the others? To be successful, you must be able to answer that question with real, concrete advantages.

For New England Machinery, it is really easy. We actually have a long list of advantages. To give you an ideas of what I mean, here are just a few of ours: 1. Our machinery is built to last a lifetime. The machines are so well constructed that they are highly valued on the secondary market. 2. We were founded by packaging engineers and continue a strong tradition of continual R&D, upgrading existing technologies, and refining our designs. 3. We offer the largest line of products by one company. We don’t just sell a model to a customer that will work for them, we sell them the right model that was designed for their specific application.

NEM offers a lot of other advantages, but this should give you an idea on how to start looking for the advantages at your company. Or, if you are looking to purchase, make sure the company you are buying from has clearly defined why you should choose them and/or their products.

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.