diff --git a/openpype/hosts/flame/plugins/publish/extract_subset_resources.py b/openpype/hosts/flame/plugins/publish/extract_subset_resources.py
index 00b87c05a0..31f7b6d574 100644
--- a/openpype/hosts/flame/plugins/publish/extract_subset_resources.py
+++ b/openpype/hosts/flame/plugins/publish/extract_subset_resources.py
@@ -115,10 +115,8 @@ class ExtractSubsetResources(openpype.api.Extractor):
                 "batch_group_loader_name")
 
             # convert to None if empty string
-            if batch_group_loader_name:
-                batch_group_loader_name = str(batch_group_loader_name)
-                if batch_group_loader_name == "":
-                    batch_group_loader_name = None
+            if batch_group_loader_name == "":
+                batch_group_loader_name = None
 
             # get frame range with handles for representation range
             frame_start_handle = frame_start - handle_start
diff --git a/openpype/hosts/flame/plugins/publish/integrate_batch_group.py b/openpype/hosts/flame/plugins/publish/integrate_batch_group.py
index f1049e4697..81b304ff0b 100644
--- a/openpype/hosts/flame/plugins/publish/integrate_batch_group.py
+++ b/openpype/hosts/flame/plugins/publish/integrate_batch_group.py
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ class IntegrateBatchGroup(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
             if _repr.get("load_to_batch_group") is not None
         ]
 
+        self.log.debug("__ loadable_representations: {}".format(pformat(
+            loadable_representations)))
+
         # get representation context from the repre_id
         representation_ids = [
             repre["_id"]
@@ -75,17 +78,20 @@ class IntegrateBatchGroup(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
         repre_contexts = op_pipeline.load.get_repres_contexts(
             representation_ids)
 
+        self.log.debug("__ repre_contexts: {}".format(pformat(
+            repre_contexts)))
+
         # loop all returned repres from repre_context dict
         for repre_id, repre_context in repre_contexts.items():
+            self.log.debug("__ repre_id: {}".format(repre_id))
             # get loader name by representation id
             loader_name = next(
                 (
                     repr["loader"]
                     for repr in loadable_representations
                     if repr["_id"] == repre_id
-                ),
-                self.default_loader
-            )
+                )) or self.default_loader
+
             # get loader plugin
             Loader = next(
                 (
@@ -118,8 +124,6 @@ class IntegrateBatchGroup(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
                         pformat(loadable_representations))
                 )
 
-
-
     def _get_batch_group(self, instance, task_data):
         frame_start = instance.data["frameStart"]
         frame_end = instance.data["frameEnd"]