Swiss manufacturing company Denipro AG has announced a new flexible conveying system called EasyChain, and will have a booth in Chicago later this month at ProMat 2013, to be held January 21 to 24. EasyChain is adaptable to almost any layout, and it increases workloads and decreases the space needed for the conveyor, according to … Read more
A roller conveyor serves as very important equipment /tools in material handling. It is for the purpose of sliding the load, pushing, accumulating materials. There are different kinds of roller conveyors. There are those that are driven by a chain, belt, shaft, accumulation and those that are non-powered. It is made of steel, stainless steel, … Read more
Before material handling equipment was invented, the only way to transport things was to manually carry or drag them. Now that we have built powerful equipment to aid us, the task of transporting large quantities of heavy loads is made infinitely easier. The overhead conveyor, in particular, is especially useful in the manufacturing and food … Read more
Many people are not familiar with the work involved in the handling, storage and protection of products before they hit the display stands at the stores. Even in the business sector, material handling is a very common task that workers do not spare it a second thought. The overall process of managing goods from the … Read more
Conveyors and sortations before were the only material handling equipment that was automated. Nowadays, there are a lot more equipment that provides easy functionality for everyone, but still feels necessity for conveyors. For example, a goods-to-person solution for picking requires conveyors to be able to deliver products from storage and send them to picking stations, … Read more
A celebrated manufacturer of colossal industrial caster and wheel named “Caster Concepts Incorporated” shared to the public just recently, the inclusion of the cutting-edge “Conveyor Concepts” to its long time family business. The production of specialized parts for conveyor industries is the niche of Conveyor Concepts; which includes drive assemblies, conveyor rollers, polyurethane wheels as … Read more
The “Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association” or CEMA basing on their accumulated data, relayed that their scheduled orders for February 2012 amazingly increased by 24.8% in comparison to their bookings last February 2011. CEMA also sized up their February 2012 bookings with their orders on January 2012, and it also definitely went up by 13.2%. Though … Read more
A conveyor system is a well known material handling equipment used to continuously move object, materials and heavy equipment. This equipment is widely used in different industrial and commercial applications such as in retail stores, food industries, airport, manufacturing, shipping, processing and others. However, as its name implies, a conveyor system is composed of different … Read more
Ball transfer table is another type of conveyors, which uses omni-directional or multi-directional bearings to move around object and heavy materials. This type of conveyor used the same principle that is used in trackballs, in which a bigger ball is supported by smaller ball bearings. Ball transfer tables are used to conveniently transfer, rotate and … Read more
Belt conveyors or conveyor belt as it is commonly known, are the most popular type of conveyor. It is widely used in different industries. Belt conveyor, on the other is a type of conveyor that has two or more pulleys with continuous loop also know as belt, thus it is called belt conveyors. The pulleys … Read more
