Three Reasons Why Your Bagging Scale Matters

Spring 2013
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Three Reasons Why
Your Bagging Scale Matters
Your scale is your profit center
It’s amazing how many companies lose site of the
importance of bag fill accuracy to bagging operation
profitability. Many companies continue to trust this
important component of their business to bagging
scale manufacturers using outdated designs based
on 1970’s or 1980’s weighing technology. These
old designs simply don’t measure up to the next
generation technology that is available from Hamer.
Most of these old design scales have repeatability
variances, bag to bag of ¾ lb to 1 lb or more. To
compensate, producers end up overfilling each bag
by at least 1 lb, if not 2 lbs, to make sure they meet
Weights and Measures requirements.
600NW and 600NW SS
Duplex Net Weigh
Bagging Scales
What is the amount of product give away in your bag?
Years ago, shipping an extra 1 lb or more of product
with each bag may not have been a problem. But with
the increase in raw material costs in Fertilizer, Seed
and Feed industries this extra product equates to a lot
of lost profit.
In 2007, Hamer launched an all new design Net Weigh
Bagging Scale utilizing the newest industrial weighing
technology available. The result is our Model 600NW
Net Weigh Bagging Scale. The 600NW reduces per
bag overfill by 40% or better on every bag. Customers
using the 600NW in their bagging operation see
immediate and significant improvements in their bag
fill accuracy, increasing their bagging line profitability.
It paces your production
By having a scale that will run consistently and
accurately at 15, 18, 25 or more Bags Per Minute (BPM)
you can use the scale to pace your bagging rate and
production throughput. If you are still using older
simplex (single) scale designs they typically cannot
run faster than 10-12 BPM. This now becomes your
maximum production rate. You can’t bag faster than
your scale can run.
Hamer’s new technology Model 600NW will run
simplex (single) scale rates of 18-22 BPM on a gravity
feed system, accurately and consistently. The scale is
600NW Belt Feed
no longer your production bottleneck. We’ve installed
dozens and dozens of these high speed simplex scales
with outstanding customer results.
Your raw material costs keep going up
Whether you are bagging Fertilizer, Feed, or Seeds,
your cost of raw materials has continued to climb.
Your 1 lb+ excess product per bag has never cost you
more. It’s not uncommon for high volume lines to lose
$30,000 to $40,000 annually on a single bagging line.
Do you know what your product give-away cost you
last year?
A better way
Hamer next generation bagging scales offer better
accuracy, faster speeds and less down time than
any other design. Call us and we’ll help you begin
improving your bagging line profitability, at a cost
that gives you an outstanding Return On Investment.
Square Meal Feeds Products Innovates Horse Feed
Packaging with HFFS technology
Harlan Anderson, DVM and Farmer was looking for a better feed product for
horses. Horses have always been grained, but Dr. Anderson knew there had to
be a better way to improve horse nutrition and thereby horse health.
He developed a horse feed that follows the success of pet food nutrition
improvements seen in the past several decades. The result, Square Meal
Feeds™, a complete diet that is a Total Mixed Ration or TMR. It promotes
longevity, better health and a higher quality of life. An alfalfa based biscuit, it
includes essential nutrients and is the first 24/7 feed that eliminates the need
for additional grains.
To support this new feed product, Dr. Anderson sought an improved feed
package as well. He contacted Hamer for assistance in developing an
automated bagging system using a polyethylene bag.
“A lot of feed products are sold in paper and poly woven bags. Paper
Square Meal Feeds poly bag filled using Hamer’s
bags fail easily and poly woven bags are not sustainable environmentally,
automated Form, Fill and Seal machine with
they’ll be sitting in a land fill for a millennium. Poly bags offer a recyclable,
Volumetric Feeder
environmentally sustainable solution that our customers prefer over Poly
Woven bags” said Dr. Anderson. He went on to say “Customer education and use information is much easier to read
on poly, and with the improved color and clarity of poly bags, customers can really understand what the value of the
product is. Bag opening is also much easier. No more struggling with knives or scissors to hack your way through a
woven bag.”
The product has been tested throughout the country and in the deep south where humidity can be problematic.
With proper feed ingredients, Square Meal Feeds Biscuits™ are a perfect match to poly bags. Square Meal Feeds uses
Hamer automated Form, Fill and Seal bagging with a Hamer Volumetric Feeder dosing feed into the bags.
Introducing New Model 1200BH Bag Hanger
Now bag placing reliability and efficiency can be attained
with one cost effective machine, the Model 1200BH Bag
Hanger. Supporting open mouth paper, polyurethane,
polyethylene, poly laminates and poly woven bags,
virtually any Feed, Seed, Pet Food, Fertilizer or other
applications are perfect for the Model 1200BH.
Empty bags are placed in stacks on the bag magazine and
then each bag is individually picked and indexed to the
opening and filling stations. By first indexing an individual
bag, the Model 1200BH eliminates messy bag handling
caused by trying to pick a bag up right off the bag
stack. This improves efficiency ratings and positive bag
positioning for much improved production consistency.
Designed from the ground up to be able to support all of
today’s open mouth bags, change over
from one bag style to another takes minutes to keep
production up time to a maximum.
Modular in construction, the Model 1200BH can be configured with a variety of bag
magazine sizes, right hand or left hand bag feeding and bag closing. Its small footprint
allows for placement in virtually any plant.
Paper, Poly Woven, Poly
bag magazine
When combined with Hamer Model 600NW Net Weigh Scales, Bag Handing Conveyors and Hamer Robotic Palletizers
the Model 1200BH becomes an integral part of a highly efficient Open Mouth bagging system.
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Meet Dave Coon
New products
Union Special US400
Plain Sew System
Union Special, the leader in sew closure
systems since 1881 offers their US400 sew
system in Plain/Sew or Tape/Sew systems.
Only Union Special offers not only the
fastest, 75 ft/min, sew head, but the only
fully enclosed industrial sew head, their
model BC211P15-1. Using high quality
industrial components, all steel support
frames for vibration reduction, LCD controls
and UL approved control panels, the US400
is the most durable system offered today.
The extra-long bag in-feed goes completely
under the sew head for positive bag feeding
and prevents dropped bags when inserting tags onto the bag. A wide range of
options including fold over are available. Proudly made in the USA.
Center Grip 100GW
The Model 100GW Centergrip expands
use of the popular 100GW into even more
applications. The Centergrip design allows
for feeding of larger particle sizes and a
greater range of bag sizes. It supports bags
from 8” to 25” in width, and larger sized
free flowing materials. Products like Nuts,
Crushed Rock, Pea gravel and others can be
run on the Model 100GW.
Model 600NW
Refuge-In-Bag Scale
Dave joined Hamer six
years ago as a Lead Scale
technician helping support
our then, new Model
600NW Net Weigh scale
product line. He brought
with him over 30 years of
technical experience with
a wide variety of scale
products.
From Truck Scales to
Laboratory balances
Dave’s training and
experience truly qualify
him as an expert. He’s been
instrumental in developing
improvement and design
enhancements to all of
our bagging scales. In
addition, he’s spent many
years developing and
supporting sophisticated
scale and packaging
systems, such as;
Automatic Drum Fillers,
Batch Control Systems and
High Speed Automated
Packaging Systems.
When not developing
technical products, Dave
enjoys time with his two
boys, one a Senior in
college, the other active
duty Army, stationed at
Fort Hood Texas. Summer
sees Dave enjoying
watersports with his
friends and family.
Hamer’s Model 600NW RIB Gravity Feed
secondary vibratory feed, meets EPA insect
resistance management (IRM) program
requirements for bagged/boxed packaged
seed. Available in both simplex or duplex
versions, the 600NW RIB is the most
accurate and cost effective system available.
Weighment data is transmitted and collected
to meet EPA and trace provider compliance.
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Plymouth, MN 55447-4821 USA
INSIDE
Three Reasons Why
Your Bagging Scale Matters......................... Pg. 1
Square Meal Feeds Innovates
Horse Feed Packaging with HFFS............... Pg. 2
NEW Hamer Model 1200BH
Bag Hanger......................................................... Pg. 2
NEW PRODUCTS
Union Special US400 Plain Sew System
Center Grip 100GW
Model 600NW Refuge-In-Bag Scale.......... Pg. 3
Your Bagging Scale is
Robbing You Blind!
Stop the madness with Hamer
u Proven new design and technology
u High accuracy, reduces product
give away by 40%
u 50% faster for higher 600NW Duplex
Net Weigh
productivity
Bagging Scale
u Low capital cost
u Lowest cost RIB design
100GW
Gross Weigh
Bagging Scale
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