Hammer Packaging Sets Sail for a Second Century in Business

In 1999, the fast-growing company left the Metro Park Business Complex in Rochester—its home for 26 years—to occupy a new, 90,000 square-foot corporate headquarters on a 14-acre parcel of land adjacent to the Rochester Institute of Technology. This facility houses an array of large-format printing presses for producing cut-and-stack, roll-fed, in-mold, foam, and shrink sleeve labels. In 2012, Hammer Packaging completed a second major expansion at the nearby Rochester Technology Park, adding 60,000 square feet to its existing finishing and warehouse operations. The entire Tech Park plant, where half of Hammer's 450 employees work, now encloses a total of 270,000 square feet. Most recently, Hammer Packaging engineered a 13,000 square-foot expansion adjacent to its corporate headquarters in West Henrietta, N.Y. to accommodate the company's third variable sleeve offset printing (VSOP) press, bringing the total in that facility to 113,000 square feet. The addition of this third press makes Hammer the single largest user of VSOP sleeve technology in the world, Iovoli said.