About

The Blodgett Company

The Blodgett Company Story

The Blodgett Company is an established specialty manufacturer with a proven record for quality and reliability.

Stewart Blodgett built his first scale for Tobin Packing of Rochester, New York, in 1958 while working for ACF Industries. This scale was fitted to a bacon-slicing machine that needed to provide accurate weights while being shaken by the machine’s eccentric blade. This vibration immunity led to a basic design and resulting patents. Shortly after the completion of the Tobin project, Stewart purchased the patent and related proprietary work product from ACF. He set up Blodgett Manufacturing in 1959 with the intention of marketing scales and controls to the packaging industry. He sought a firm with packaging experience and partnered with the G.D. Mateer company in Wayne, Pennsylvania, whose primary product was augers. They planned to co-market Blodgett scales and had sights on expanding their market. As a result, one of their customers, Mira-Pak, Inc. of Houston, Texas, was in need of an accurate scale and control system to be combined with their packaging machines. In 1963, Blodgett Manufacturing moved to Houston and began building the world’s best linear weighing equipment, doing so with Mira-Pak for the next 15 years.

In 1979, Stewart and his son Brad started Blodgett Services with the intention of servicing the thousands of scales and controls built with Mira-Pak and developing a new super-fast, vibration-immune, and impact-compensated scale. Within two years, the new scales hit the market and were sold to machine manufacturers and retrofitted to existing machinery. The machine conversions were so successful that customers often recouped their investment in the first year.

In 1983, Blodgett began to market complete stand-alone weighing systems for interface with new and used machines and product-filling applications for vertical and horizontal packaging.

In 1985, Stewart Blodgett retired from everyday business, leaving his son, Brad, to carry on the company name and reputation.

In 1988, Blodgett introduced their first vertical, form, fill and seal packaging machine. It featured both auger and scale fillers and variable speed production with full control from a digital HMI and Atcom computer. It used a reciprocating jaw to produce bags up to 12” wide. This first machine remains in operation after 28 years in the field.

In 1999, Blodgett introduced the Omni series machines, which feature belt drive film advance, power film unwind, pneumatic or servo jaw control, high-speed computer control, digital temperature control, and ultra-reliable HMI display. These machines can form bags from 2” to 14” face width and up to 34” long, with available auger, scale, or volumetric filling.

In 2014, The Blodgett Company was sold to William Jarrell, who had worked for over 20 years in the firm. Since the purchase of the company, he has introduced a line of infeed conveyors, bucket elevators, pack-off conveyors, and multi-head scales that outperform many competitors in accuracy and durability.

The Blodgett Company strives to continue the introduction of well-designed, durable, and reasonably priced packaging equipment with the best support in the marketplace. We look forward to hearing from you and helping meet your packaging goals.

Custom Solutions from The Blodgett Company

Virtually every aspect of the systems we offer at The Blodgett Company can be custom-designed for specific applications and products. Whether you are handling nuts and bolts or nuts and fruit, we can design a system to precisely fit your needs.

Let our team apply its expertise and over 40 years of experience in designing a system to meet and solve your unique weighing needs.

The Blodgett Company offers the very best in flexible, accurate weight control with a small company sense of pride.

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Year Established

Products

• Vertical Form Fill Seal Machine
• Linear Scale Packaging Machines
• Combination Weighers
• Packaging System Parts and Components

Services

• Service Calls

Specialties

• Linear-scale packaging machines
• Vertical Form Fill Seal Machines
• Combination Weighers
• Packaging System Parts and Components
• Vertical Form Fills
• Incline conveyors
• Takeaway conveyors
• Bucket elevators
• Pack off tables