Jim Hammer

DALLAS, TX—KBA North America announced that Hammer Packaging, a package printing company headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., has installed a new KBA Rapida 162 64-inch eight-color sheetfed press plus coater and additional key accessories, such as a roll-to-sheet feeder, KBA Densitronic Professional color control system, and lightweight paper package.

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—James E. Hammer, president and CEO of Hammer Packaging, was inducted into the 2008 Rochester Business Hall of Fame. The Rochester Business Hall of Fame is dedicated to recognizing the contributions and entrepreneurial spirit of the area’s most enterprising leaders. The Hall of Fame is a joint initiative of Junior Achievement of Rochester, NY Area Inc., the Rochester Business Journal and Rochester Museum and Science Center. The selection committee looks for three attributes: 1) contributions that have affected the individual’s organization, business, industry and community; 2) an excellent reputation and a source of inspiration and encouragement for others; and 3) demonstrated leadership,

Lucrative offers from North Carolina were enticing. But the icing on the cake that kept Hammer Lithographics in Rochester was the opportunity to work closely with and train its employees at RIT. New York state and Monroe County officials fought off enticing economic packages offered to Hammer Lithograph by North Carolina state officials to not only build a new plant there, but move the 85-year-old package printer's existing plant as well. But despite the lucrative offer and incentives tendered by Tarheel officials, it was the lure of the opportunity to work closely with, and actually build a facility adjacent to the campus of the