Product & Package Handling

A&E Conveyor Systems Inc.

A&E Conveyor offers several different styles of elevators and lowerators, include side grip style elevators with continuous solid lubricated UHMW chain wear tracks, spring and air-assisted chain take-up assemblies and metering spacing belts for container control. Other systems from A&E Conveyor include magnetic style systems in sanitary steel construction that can be supplied in many different configurations with various infeed/discharge styles depending on the application. Rounding out A&E’s product and package handling offerings are vacuum style, spiral style, and gravity style elevators as well as single filers and divider conveyors.

ABOX Automation Corp.

Timing Screw Drives from ABOX Automation are designed to be a cost effective way to add high speed indexing to a variety of bottles and containers. With its modular design, the unit can be attached to any machine or conveyor with ease. The units also come with tool less screw change over capabilities allowing for quick setup. Both the height and depth are easily adjusted with a simple hand wheel and each have indicators for repeatable set ups. Several motor options are available including DC with a clutch, stepper, or servo.

Advantage Conveyor, Inc.

Advantage Conveyor specializes in the custom design and fabrication of singulating and combining conveyors as well as product diverting, sorting and lane switching conveyors for all industries and applications. Advantage Conveyor’s engineering staff works with clients to develop CAD drawings to their specifications. Systems can be supplied as part of a complete system or as a standalone component to fit an existing system.

Advantage Puck Technologies, Inc.

Advantage Puck specializes in injected molded pucks used to stabilize irregularly or unstable shaped packages throughout conveying and handling processes such as labeling, capping, filling, assembling, and date-coding. Custom specialty pucks offered by Advantage Puck include soft-centered pucks, labeling pucks, dual-product pucks, aerosol pucks, shrink-sleeve pucks, tube-filling pucks and specialty pucks for RFID products. QUIETPUCK® features energy-absorbing material and bumpers that helps reduce factory floor decibel levels up to 10 times the dBA level caused when standard pucks collide at the end of filling lines. Advantage Puck designed QUIETPUCK by coupling with Advantage Puck’s established and reliable standard puck design.

AmbaFlex Inc.

Elevation systems from AmbaFlex include the SpiralVeyor SV, an all-purpose spiral conveyor that elevates secondary packed products and cases in logistics as well as packaging such as cartons, containers, trays, bottlepacks, bags, crates and totes. It is used for multiple package handling functions ranging from elevation up to accumulation. AmbaFlex also offers similar spiral systems for elevating items such as bottles, pharmaceutical items, large items, and parcels.

AMF Bakery Systems

AMF Convay, an AMF Bakery Systems brand, can move a bakery's most valuable assets including baked products, pans, lids, packaged products, baskets, corrugate cases, trays, pallets, and more through the complete production line with maximum efficiency and simple sanitation.

Arr-Tech Inc.

Arr-Tech makes a spreader/laning conveyor designed for product laning applications in food processing. System will automatically denest products such as tortillas, flatbread and pizza, eliminating the need for manual labor by positioning the product into lanes to be transferred to automatic counting, stacking and packaging equipment. Featuring bi-directional product separation, variable-speed drive, and easy adjustability for a variety of application needs, this spreader/conveyor allows easy access for maintenance and utilizes current technologies for greater durability.

Auger Fabrication, Inc.

Auger Fabrication Inc. specializes in supplying new and replacement augers, conveyor screws, feeder screws, and flight material for powder and bulk solids material handling equipment. Its extensive product line includes vertical and horizontal augers. In addition, Auger Fabrication offers auger maintenance and repair services as well as custom auger design services. Customized auger options include plastic, brass or stainless, straight, self-feeding, conveying, tapered, overflight, single flights, double flights, dual agitation, and more.

AutoPak Engineering Corp.

Autopak manufactures ancillary equipment used in material handling applications including transfer plates, diverters and stops, reject receivers, spacing wheels, reject devices and related equipment.

Aylward Enterprises, LLC

Aylward manufactures robust bulk product elevators that supply bulk product at rates of up to 25,000 pieces per minute. Product elevators can be customized to required heights, are easy to clean, and are designed for simple integration with every type of packaging equipment.

AZO, Inc.

As big bags become more important as an environmental-friendly method of shipping and handling ingredients, Azo offers its bulk bag discharge stations, bulk bag unloaders, and bulk bag dispensers used in processing applications of all kinds. Azo's versatile and efficient unit is used for optimal discharge of big bags in closed automated feeding systems. For difficult to discharge materials, the big bag support table is equipped with a vibrator or big bag massager. Optional low-level indicators are available to provide indication of low product level for bulk bag changing in time.

Batching Systems, Inc.

Heavy duty bulk product pre-feeders and conveyors from Batching Systems are engineered to provide easy ergonomic filling, gentle non-abrasive product handling, effective disentangling and uniform product flow. Batching Systems supplies ergonomic hydraulic drop and lift load height dumpers for bulk unloading. The Sure Feed Hopper Lift consists of a shaker type vibratory feeder mounted above counting, weighing or processing equipment, on a stand that is designed to allow the feeder to drop back and tilt down to an ergonomic load height. The operator uses the hand control to bring the feeder down to load position while the counter, scale or processor continues to run, resulting in zero down time for product refill. Once filled, the operator returns the hopper to feed height to resume product delivery.

BellatRx Inc.

The Tablet Elevator, available in either single or dual formats, is designed for efficiency and ergonomics. It automatically replenishes the hoppers of tablet counters, regardless of model, with product at a rate that keeps up with production requirements. Its low-profile hopper ensures that dispensing of product remains low to the ground without the need to lift heavy drums or boxes to the tablet counter hopper.

Benchmark

Benchmark supplies product laning conveyors, stacking machines, channeling equipment, and related single file product distribution equipment. The In-Line Stacker can be incorporated into new or existing horizontal wrappers. A series of flight chains, a lift ramp and a stacking plate are used to automatically build 2 high stacks of product while it travels along the wrapper infeed. The system is servo driven and can provide 1 or 2-high stacks with changeovers of less than 1 minute.

BluePrint Automation (BPA)

BluePrint Automation makes high-speed stacking and loading systems for frozen pancakes, waffles, tortillas, flatbreads, protein patties and related products. This solution forms, stacks and loads products in various horizontal form/fill/seal (hf/f/s) machines, including a continuously moving flow wrapper chain infeed. Integrated vision is used to provide position and orientation of product as well as inspection for size, shape and more.

BPI Equipment

Elevating conveyors from BPI are customizable to fit the work environment and application as well as being configured to expedite workflow efficiently. Conveyor’s main structure features a 304 stainless steel construction with large lifting capacity for heavier products and high lifting capabilities for the large projects. Also features a product flow hopper for small product control and adjustable leveling feet for uneven surfaces.

Bradman Lake Group

Bradman-Lake is a manufacturer of product and packaging handling systems including automatic distribution, storage and buffer systems and cascade loaders. Bradman-Lake works with customers in industries including bakery and biscuit, chocolate and confectionery, dry foods, chilled and frozen foods, pharmaceutical, and consumer and healthcare.

CAM Packaging Systems

The CAM Singulator supplies product transfer systems, indexing conveyors and a multilane, singulator counting solution for creating mixed/assorted multipacks or single flavor packages. In production mode, users can create retail packages or create packages in e-commerce mode as required.

Campbell Wrapper Corporation

Campbell's product distribution system automatically distributes up to several thousand products per minute to various individual flow wrapping machines. Each module in the system is fully interfaced to the product backlog and supply system, ensuring consistent feeding to the wrappers on the production line. Systems feature sanitary machine design allows for easy clean-up, a reliable Allen-Bradley control system and flow buffering at each wrapper station. Diverters, transpositors, and chicane systems are available.

Capmatic

Capmatic supplies the Tablet Elevator Feeder, marketed as "the ultimate solution for seamless and efficient product feeding." Featuring an innovative magnetic lift motion system, this feeder requires no air. The Tablet Elevator Feeder has a low loading height at 780mm. The system also boasts a hopper volume exceeding 100 Liters (3.53 ft³) and a transport bucket volume of 13 Liters (0.45 ft³). Achieving speeds ranging from 3.5 to 4 lifts per minute (up to 52 liters/m) (1.83 ft³), the elevator feeder's efficient design ensures optimal performance.

Carleton Helical Technologies

Carleton Helical Technologies manufactures product and package handling equipment including feedscrews and denesters. HP Feedscrews can be engineered to handle a wide variety of applications for container handling: divide, combine, collate, rotate, dwell, denest, register and meter. Helical Denesters are used to separate products such as cups, bowls, or trays that are delivered in stacks. These stacks can be manually or automatically loaded into the denester. The denester will hold the stacks and mechanically separate the product one at a time for discharge onto a conveyor, platform or lead station for transport onto the next stage of its processing. These units can work as a stand-alone system dispensing containers if they are preset or can be linked to upstream and downstream equipment to work in unison for a collaborative system.

Cavanna Packaging USA

Cavanna Packaging USA supplies full wrapping lines for round, square and rectangular products such as biscuits, crackers and cookies that arrive and align in regular rows. These lines feature integrated, automated solutions for product feeding and conveying between guides.The system can feed one or more wrapping lines directly from the processing line and be connected to a buffering system, product refeed station, or to other processing stations such as cooling tunnels. System features slug forming through an SBF type volumetric feeder. Up to 12 channel configurations are available.

Chantland MHS

Chantland MHS engineers and manufactures bulk conveyors for a wide range of applications, handling product and packages from as little to 6 lbs. to as much as 300 lbs. CRB Cleat Belt Incline is a flat-cleated slider belt conveyor for transfer of larger size bulk products in incline applications. SW-Series Corrugated Sidewall is a stationary roller bed conveyor designed for gentle, continuous handling of bulk materials in various configurations from horizontal to incline (up to vertical). Other systems include the S-Series Swivel Stacker Conveyor, with a slider bed design incline conveyor that elevates bags, discharging them onto boom conveyor that pivots side-to-side. It also raises and lowers to operator height to facilitate manually stacking bags on pallets.

CLE Can Lines Engineering

Can Lines Engineering (CLE) offers a wide range of container handling systems including elevating conveyors for boxes, bottles/bans and odd-shaped containers and pallet stacking/destacking systems. Custom designed for canning lines, CLE supplies twists/fittings and cap chutes for feeding and handling empty containers to be filled.

Compass Industrial Group, LLC

Compass Industrial Group offers product and package handling equipment including tray denesters and merge systems. The TrayFlow Denester, designed to denest a wide range of trays and cups without vacuum cup or gripper contact, run at high speeds, with reliable single lane capabilities of up to 120 trays per minute. Compass also offers a full line of custom designed distribution systems, engineered to increase production efficiencies by reducing downtime and product scrap. Featured products include channeling boards, which can receive interlocked product and spread to predictable centers in addition to merging product rows from two to one, and three to two and the On-Edge Row Merging System, used to merge shingled product together. Related products include spreaders and vibratory accumulation systems.

Container Handling Systems Corporation

Container Handling Systems Corporation’s servo lane divider, featuring a heavy duty frame, can be integrated into any conveyor system. This CHSC system employs a brake system to hold containers while the servo drive shifts the lane. The servo allows quick shifting and extreme accurate alignment to the conveyor guide rails. Servo laners are custom designed to match conveyor layouts and electrical specifications. Base unit components include: infeed conveyor with drive, servo motor with a timing belt driven lane assembly, heavy duty container stop as part of lane rails, jam and back up controls, and Allen Bradley PLC control panel.

CSS International Corporation

CSS offers a wide range of timing screws using in product collating, grouping, transfer, turning, orienting, dwell pocketing, acceleration, deceleration, combination, division, inspection and labeling applications. Customized timing screws can be made from a variety of materials including aluminum, nylon, Teflon, steel, PVC, and brass, depending on the customer's application and product specifications.

Dabrico, Inc.

The DN-50 is a fully automatic denesting machine used to remove nested syringes. The system is suitable for different types of syringes or cartridges made of glass or plastic from 1/2ml to 20 ml.

D&F Equipment Sales, Inc.

D&F supplies incline, vertical lift and elevator conveyors used in food processing and packaging applications. Products include the DFM500 radius/incline conveyor features adjustable leg inserts for ergonomics and can be custom-designed to the customer's width and length requirements.

Delta Systems & Automation LLC

Delta Systems manufactures a range of row distribution systems that orientate and deliver the product to the wrapper infeed when they emerge from processing in an unorganized state. Row removal systems feature passthrough speeds in excess of 120 rows/min and a delivery speed of 40 rows a minute. The rows of product are then passed onto each individual wrapping leg.

Descon Conveyor Systems Corp.

Descon designs and builds product and packaging handling solutions for the food and beverage industries, including a range of transfers, elevator conveyors, and side-grip elevators. Vacuum transfer and elevator conveyors support applications such as the removal of down cans from the line or other applications that involve a sudden change in elevation. In horizontal format, the system can handle down can removal and empty can coding applications. Vertical format applications include mass transport of single file but can also be custom designed to suit nearly any elevation change. Side grip elevator for vertical transport applications offers an effective means of elevating or lowering a variety of containers and products when space is at a premium. Product is gently but firmly gripped by the sides and carried through the change in elevation at speeds up to 300 fpm. Side grippers are a soft, pliable material, guaranteed not to damage the container.

Dillin Engineered Systems

Dillin Engineered Systems is a supplier of combiners, diverters and merges for packaging lines. Dillin’s combiners can be integrated with its full line of products and controls to provide a standalone piece of equipment or a complete, customized system. Diverters are designed for light to medium products such as trays, cartons, bottles, and can be set to run on a product count or timed basis. “No slugging” mergers can merge numerous infeed lanes to single or multiple discharge lanes and are reported by the manufacturer to be less expensive and complex than the continuous combiner.

DJS System, Inc.

Servo counter/bagger systems from DJS Systems, Inc. count and strip stacks of paper, plastic or foam cups for packaging, with a capacity of 60+ strips per minute. Using laser eyes for high speed/high accuracy counting, system features positive placement of stacks into bagger or other downstream equipment. If there is an issue, the stack is rejected left or right. DJS also designs customized, automated solutions for disposable food service product handling problems.

DMM Packaging, Inc.

In addition to its custom conveyors and accumulation tables, DMM Packaging manufactures elevator/lowerators and transfer elevators. DMM’s elevator and lowerator is designed to move product safely and securely, and comes in customizable heights. System’s gripper belts are easily adjusted to accommodate many different product sizes. DMM’s transfer elevator raises and lowers transferred product in a small footprint; heights can be customized and flights can be changed to fit various products.

Douglas Machine Inc.

Prisma® is a flexible and reliable variety pack system designed to handle high quality, consistent finished packages in virtually any combination with exceptional flexibility for product changeover and evolving trends, including cartons, shrink bundles, cases and trays. Prisma’s manual unload stations enable personnel to manually unload flavor varieties, delivering product to flavor lanes that feed packaging equipment. Prisma automated unloaders receive multiple lanes of supply product trays, unload and deliver product to flavor lanes that feed packaging equipment. Douglas also manufactures other related specialty equipment such as lane dividers, mergers and stackers.

DTM Packaging, a Massman Company

DTM Packaging's line of product handling equipment includes rotary tables that are used in rejects applications as well as belt systems/diverters used in facilities that need bottom coding and depucking functionality on their packaging line.

Dyco, Inc.

Dyco’s container handling systems elevate, lower, divide or sort containers. Product line includes side-grip elevators and lowerators.

Ernst Timing Screw Co.

Ernst specializes in manufacturing timing screws and replacement parts for cleaners, fillers, cappers, labelers, and special helixes for the packaging industry. Ernst supplies timing screws in straight-root formats such as inverse/taper/infeed configurations, transfer systems for high speed container handling, dual-flight screw systems, multiple dwell designs, grouping designs for collated products and more. Ernst also designs custom timing screws such as Turn-A-Round screws, orienting, twisting, turning, and body and neck stabilizing designs and combining and dividing designs for unscrambling and merging operations.

Fallas Automation Inc.

Complementing its line of case packing equipment, Fallas Automation offers robotic handling equipment for products and packages, including handling equpiment that will divert out of spec products during case packing.

Flex-Line Automation, Inc.

Flex-Line Automation is an authorized FlexLink System builder of conveyors. Company offers custom designed FlexLink Conveyor systems to help customers move boxes, cans, cartons, bags, and more. Systems can elevate, accumulate, lowerate, flip over, and more.

FlexLink Systems, Inc

FlexLink offers incline elevator conveyors designed for single or multiple lane elevation to handle sensitive products of different sizes. FlexLink also offers conveyor functions for puck handling for small, fragile products.

Garvey Corporation

Garvey supplies product and packaging handling equipment including gripper elevators and gap transporting equipment. The Gap Transporter, which when adjusted can be used for versatile applications including gap transporting, conveying, depucking, elevating, spacing, label inspecting and bottom coding. Garvey’s Gripper Elevator fits within existing conveyor lines with ease due to its minimal footprint design; it features a vulcanized gripper surface that opens or closes with a built in handwheel, from less than 1 in. to a maximum of 12 in. in separation. Custom designs for product and package handling are also available.

Harpak-ULMA Packaging, LLC

Advancements in robotics are making it easier to replicate the dexterity and vision once only available through human labor. Harpak-ULMA Packaging offers vision-assisted robots that can pick and place products precisely using improved grippers for delicate products. Applications for these robotics handling systems include infeed handling, raw food handling, primary packaging, secondary packaging, general material handling, and full-line and integrated solutions.

Harro Höfliger

On Harro Höfliger’s MKT cartoning system for pharmaceutical packaging, brochures are folded to the suitable sizes using standardized systems and then inserted into the package. The process gets more demanding if variable data is printed in them and they must be verified by visual inspections. The packaging insert is critical to ensure preparations are used safely. With an output of up to 150 folding cartons per minute, the intermittent MKT offers maximum productivity – and a very small footprint.

Heisler Industries, Inc.

Heisler Industries manufactures a denester that eliminates the demanding, time consuming and tedious task of manually separating plastic or metal pails, significantly improving production capacity and profitability. Designed and built in the USA, this high speed, PLC-controlled machine is made to exacting standards for trouble free, continuous use under varying conditions. Denester can denest round, square, rectangular, and oval buckets. A stack of pails is placed on the infeed conveyor and is delivered to the tilter arm, which converts the stack from the vertical to the horizontal position. The stack then advances to the separator mechanism, which holds the stack and removes one pail at a time. Each separated pail is fed to the upender, which transfers the pail to an upright position. The entire system continues to operate even as new stacks of pails are loaded. Standard Denester can denest and position containers for filling at a speed of 25/minute. Other denesters include the Compact Denester running at speeds of up to 15/min and the E-Series Denester, providing a compact solution in a modular and economical package for users whose line speeds are usually not more than 10 containers/minute.

HSAUSA

Product handling systems and feeders from HSAUSA are designed to feed and stack pouches and zippered bags laying flat to allow for downstream printing and labeling. Machines include the MFS-4000 manual feed system, which can be integrated with printers and labelers. System can run up to 30 pouches or zippered bags per minute, depending on the application.

Integrated Packaging Systems

Integrated Packaging Systems supplies tablet elevators used in pharmaceutical filling and counting operations. Featuring a stainless steel bin and UHMW side guides that are easily removable without tools, Tablet elevator from Integrated Packaging Systems is also equipped with wide “bucket” cleats that won't trap tablets against elevator sides. Can be used with slat fillers or electronic counters.

Intralox

Intralox offers the DirectDrive™ System (DDS™), a spiral technology that is a flexible, low-energy solution to increase efficiency in can-making plants that functions both single- and bidirectionally. The positive drive of the elevating and de-elevating single-directional spiral conveyor eliminates misalignment, can be used in wet can areas, and can reduce up to 90% of energy consumption. The bidirectional spiral minimizes downtime caused by product changes, absorbs unplanned downtime, features less machine idling, and protects accumulated cans better with no back pressure. Operable in various areas, including wet can, with zero slip. System enhances energy efficiency by eliminating blowers and filters and keeps cans upright during unexpected power shortages.

Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc

The FS-B Bulk Parts Elevator from Kaps-All is designed for cap feeding operations. It can also elevate and handle similar small parts. Features include an all stainless steel chassis, hood and guards; heavy duty construction; no change parts required; and a large five (5) cubic foot capacity stainless steel hopper.

Kinsley Inc.

Kinsley specializes in timing screw technology. Product and package handling equipment from Kinsley includes custom timing screws, timing screw drive units, combiners and dividers, as well as custom container handling equipment and specialty timing screw applications. Kinsley's team of container handling and packaging conveyor experts serve all areas of the industry with innovative conveyor solutions for top performance container handling.

Kirk-Rudy, Inc.

The KR725 Bag Feeder is designed to feed difficult large flat bags one at a time from a stack onto a vacuum conveyor for printing, and/or labeling. The pick-and-place suction cup mechanism removes the top bag off a stack that is a maximum of 7-in. tall and accommodates bags that do not stack evenly. The automatic stack loader is designed so one operator can load a stack of bags while a previously loaded stack is already being fed into the unit, providing for continuous feeding.

Kiwi Coders

Kiwi Coders supplies transport systems including Model 2512 Vertical Flat Case Transport, designed for automatically feeding corrugated cases when using non-contact inkjet systems, label applicators or RFIDs, providing access to all four panels in a single pass. Other transport systems include 1030 Transport, for automatically feeding folding cartons, cards, and other flat items. Kiwi Coders also offers Model 2550 Vacuum Feed, an off-line solution for automatically feeding corrugated cases, sheets, and bags when using non-contact ink jet systems, label applicators or RFID'S, and a corrugated carton transport for flat corrugated cases and die-cut sheets.

Layton Systems

Layton Systems’ Ribbon Wall elevator conveyors are constructed in Food Grade Quality from T-304 stainless steel with the exception of selected drive components. The conveyor Dimensions are based on production specification such as width, height, length, and discharge height. The Volta belt consists of ribbon sidewalls, scooped flights with an indent on each side depending on the product specifications. Smooth homogenous non-porous surfaces prevent bacteria build-up, resulting in maximum product shelf-life and designed to prevent product sticking, considerably reducing waste.

MAC Automation Concepts

MAC Automation Concepts engineers can customize automation solutions for product and package handling equipment, including stacking machines. Company’s engineers work with customers to build prototypes and ensure they are getting the product needed.

McGinn-Wilkins Automation

MFT Automation

Automating folding tasks improves efficiency and consistency compared to manual folding, and folding assemblies can easily integrate into existing production lines. The two main automated folding techniques are Plow Folding and Buckle Folding. Plow Folding, used for side or book-style folds, involves a curved metal plate and roller to guide and crease the product as it moves down a conveyor. This compact system is ideal for high-speed, accurate folding in applications such as sealing booklets, folding cartons, and creating pamphlets. Buckle Folding, which folds from front to back, uses high speed and force. The product is driven into a buckle plate with a backstop, causing it to buckle and fold backward as rollers crease the fold. Though slower than Plow Folding, Buckle Folding is essential for applications requiring front-to-back folds, such as booklets, inserts, and magazines.

Morrison Container Handling Solutions

Morrison Container Handling Solutions creates products, equipment, and full line solutions to handle rigid and semi-rigid containers for all packaging applications. Morrison’s timing screws, change parts, drive units, denesters, and specialty equipment move containers for applications including, orienting, stacking, dividing, combining, denesting (for trays, cups, lids, buckets, and pots), in addition to systems for collating, grouping and stacking. Morrison also has developed timing screw drive units, change parts, and timing screws that maximize efficiency, productivity, and ensure quality outcomes for feeding and inserting applications on packaging lines. All solutions are custom designed to the customer’s container and created to move containers more efficiently and increase throughput from anything to filling, capping, corking, labeling, case packing and beyond.

Multi-Conveyor

Multi-Conveyor makes product and packaging handling equipment including elevators, lowerators, land dividers and diverters to streamline the workload from processing, bottling, filling to assembly, finishing, packing and palletizing. Elevation and lowering systems are configured to specification, and can take hold of a box, case or individual product, move it up and transport it at elevated heights over the shop floor then deposit it precisely. Conveyors can be fitted with a variety of diverters, gates, and guides activated by programmable logic controls for merging, sorting and divert conveying suited to the customer’s layout.

Murzan, Inc.

Murzan offers several drum unloaders, each built specifically to unload standard industry containers: the 5-gallon bucket, the 55-gallon drum, and the 300-gallon tote. Machine line includes the Murzan DUS (Drum Unloading System), which directs the full pumping power of the PI-50 pump into the company's unique follower plate design to fully unload even the most viscous products from metal, plastic or fiber 55 gallon drums.

NERAK Systems

Nerak is a supplier of specialty conveying systems such as continuous vertical conveyors and vertical reciprocating lifts. Featured products include Nerak's line of continuous vertical conveyors (CVCs), used to elevate or lower containers, boxes, trays, packages, sacks, bags, luggage, pallets, barrels, kegs, and other articles with a solid surface between two levels, quickly and consistently at high capacity; on automatically loading platforms, in "S" or "C" configuration, on a minimum footprint.

New England Machinery

Hopper elevators from New England Machinery, Inc., includes a variety of equipment: standard hoppers, cap and small component elevators, dual cap sorter hopper elevators and lowerators. New England Machinery will design to customer specifications to allow for greater flexibility in line layout and supply.

Norwalt

High-speed puck loader and depucker systems handle specific orientation applications for filling products such as deodorants and shampoos. These systems run at very high speeds while delivering optimal OEE. Rather than relying on gravity and other outdated methods, Norwalt's puck loaders/depuckers use advanced tooling to craft the smartest strategy possible, working with odd sizes, irregular/asymmetrical shapes and unique designs.

Pack Air Inc.

Pack Air's offers a range of equipment for product and package handling, catering to various industries including paper, food, consumer goods, hygiene, warehousing, and more. Product and package handling equipment includes pass-throughs, grippers, right angle transfers, reorienting devices, diverts, merges, balancers, air tables, air trim removal systems.

P.E. Labellers

Along with quality control systems and labeling systems, P.E. Labellers provides rejection solutions to eliminate non-compliant packages from the production line or to differentiate products on multi-way conveyors. P.E. Labellers designs and manufactures soft push rejections used on bottle labeling lines with accumulation conveyors or with chute and collection basket as well as multi-finger rejections combined with accumulation conveyors.

Performance Feeders, Inc.

Performance Feeders supplies diversified vibratory parts feeding equipment for product and package handling applications. Product line includes vision feeding systems, step feeders, orienting elevators, tray handling systems, flexible feeding systems, and a complete line of peripheral products to complement its flagship line of vibratory feeder bowls.

PharmaMed

PharmaMed supplies a robotic syringe denester designed to add flexibility to syringe packaging lines. Mobile syringe denester features a compact size and adjustable outfeed rail, allowing this system to adapt to a wide range of downstream equipment. Robotic denester handles multiple syringe sizes, from 1ml to 5ml, and can be figured for multiple tray layouts (100ct/160ct). The machine can also adapt to a broad array of downstream equipment.

Planar Motor Inc.

Marketed as a “smart conveying system,” Planar Motor conveying and handling systems comprise mobile XBots (movers) and a static surface of modular Flyways (stators). Each XBot possesses independent control and magnetic levitation across 6 degrees-of-freedom. This system operates without the need for lubrication, ensuring a contamination-free environment. Particularly suitable for applications demanding high cleanliness like food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical manufacturing, as well as industries with harsh conditions requiring water and dust proofing. The Flyways, consisting of identical modular tiles, are fully extendable and reconfigurable. The versatile motion of Xbots enables the elimination of traditionally required robot arms, redefining intelligent production lines in smart manufacturing for unparalleled flexibility, reliability, agility, and efficiency to meet dynamic market needs.

Posimat

Posimat's product line includes product and package handling equipment used in empty bottle and bottle handling operations on liquid filling lines. The Box Tipper is a semiautomatic bulk unloading machine that easily and reliably dumps plastic bottles into the hopper prior to feeding into an unscrambler.

PPM Technologies

PPM supplies a range of material handling equipment for the food processing industry, including tote/bin/crate dumpers for handling bulk product prior to final processing.

Remtec Automation, LLC

Remtec offers robotic tray handling, product stacking, and case unloading systems for a wide variety of applications.

Ryson International, Inc.

Ryson manufactures a full line of spiral conveyors that can satisfy most vertical conveying needs, and a broad range of bucket elevators for conveying bulk materials. Ryson’s proprietary spiral technology including specialty spiral conveyors can be used in a variety of product and package handling applications per the customer’s unique requirements.

Septimatech Group Inc.

Septimatech manufactures feed screws for container feeding, separation and timing; container angle necks; container dwell and orientating; container grouping, twisting, dividing, combining; container lay down and 180-degree inverting; machine-to-machine synchronization container orientation and turning; and high-speed applications. Benefits of feed screws include quick change components to reduce changeover time and standardized quick change system to reduce operator set up time and changeover time. In-house testing capabilities allow for replication of the production environment.

Shuttleworth, Inc.

In addition to its conveying and accumulation systems, Shuttleworth offers product handling equipment such as: laning and diverting systems; merging and combining equipment; metering, indexing and positioning systems; stacking equipment; and more. Customized automatic solutions for sorting, rotating, diverting, or rejecting are also available. Diverters and laners guide laned products from one to up to 31 lanes while the pattern forming solution sorts products from one to multiple lanes.

Simplimatic, A Signode Brand

Simplimatic is an original equipment manufacturer of product and package handling equipment including stacking/destacking machines for trays and boards as well as puck handling systems. The highly customizable Optitrak tray stacker/destacker is designed to automatically load or unload batches of ten trays at the beginning and end of process cells. Simplimatic also offers a wide variety of off-the-shelf and custom-designed puck handling systems ranging from a single puck handling machine to a fully integrated, turn-key, puck handling line.

Smalley Manufacturing Company

Smalley Manufacturing supplies product and packaging handling systems including air conveyors for empty plastic bottles, bulk bag unloaders, bulk tote fillers, receiving hoppers, vibrating feeders, blending drums, mixing conveyors, and scale feed systems. Featured products include the GSLS (Gentle Spiral Letdown System), designed to fill totes efficiently while lowering the product gently into the bin. The system incorporates a steel holding bin mounted on a sturdy tubular construction platform.

Sourcelink Solutions, LLC

SourceLink distributes vertical lift equipment from Qimarox, including vertical elevators and de-elevators that handle a wide range of products, sizes and speeds with a patented cam follower system. The compact design fits where the conventional spirals are not an option.

Span Tech Conveyors

Cost-effective, compact spiral elevator conveyors offer elevation change with a minimal footprint. Spiral conveyor elevators from SpanTech include the OutRunner, offering the capacity to move several product types without taking up valuable floor space. No pressure is applied to the product, so even delicate items can pass through it without damage. Elevator conveyors can be used in processing applications such as proofing, where bread dough needs to rise, or in other applications where products need to cool off or dry after being baked, washed or cooked. Other product handling systems include powered divert, laners, and much more.

Syntegon

Syntegon product handling, orienting, and loading equipment pairs its line of Kliklok cartoning systems to provide seamless packaging solutions. Featured products include the Kliklok RTS, which uses a series of timing belts to place randomly arriving product into position to be turned and placed by carousel-mounted product grippers into the product infeed conveyors (PICs) of endload cartoners.

TDI Packsys

TDI Packsys distributes E2M rejection and separation equipment to ensure customer products and reputation are protected. Used alone, these systems can also be used in conjunction with x-ray equipment, orientation equipment and vision inspection systems, preventing problems or hazards by dividing non-conforming containers such as those with defects, damage, inconsistent fill lines and weights, and more. Featured systems include the E2M packaging divider, which allows the diversion or distribution of one-line containers in two exit lanes. TDI Packsys also distributes E2M multistep rejection systems for containers, rejection systems for products on circulating conveyors, and push rejection systems for defective containers.

Terco, Inc.

Terco supplies the aersol container market with a range of puck handling equipment including de-pucking equipment and rotary puck inserters as well as container pucks themselves. The RPI-150 Rotary Puck Inserter, designed on a continuous motion rotary base to provide a long, easy maintenance service life, inserts pucks at speeds up to 150 cans/min.

Thompson Scale Company

Thompson Scale offers a wide variety of package sorting, diverting and rejecting devices that can be tailor made to customer packaging lines, including blast air nozzles, case diverters, pushers, drop-nose diverters, swing arm diverters, bump cylinder pushers and more. Each device is operated by a double-acting solenoid valve, and includes a lockable shut-off valve and filter-regulator, and typically includes pneumatic poly tube fittings. Some devices are available with or without conveyors, and many can be manufactured in either painted mild steel or stainless steel and rated for wash-down environments.

Turbofil Packaging Machines

TurboFil's automatic depucker is engineered to be an efficient tool for removing bottles from pucks on a bottling line. Depucking systems can also lift a variety of bottles for bottom labeling and are designed for easy set up and changeover, with no change parts required. Depuckers are available in lengths of up to 96 in.

Uni Pak Corp.

Uni-Pak Corp. manufactures container elevators, lowerators and incline conveyors. Our custom conveyors are made from mild steel, 304, and 316 stainless steel. They are available in forms such as belts, chain belt, cam line cable, mat top, and many other varieties. Belts are offered as live rollers, metal chain, plastic modular, and other styles. Conveyors can feature dividers/combiners, live corner or dynamic transfer, package and container orientation devices. Variable speeds are capable of check-weighing, labeling, and metal detection.

VC999 Packaging Systems Inc.

The VC999 CO570 is designed as an affordable, automatic lane converging option for users of small and large thermoformers running fresh food packs. System takes multi-lane format matrices of thermoformed fresh food packs directly from the outfeed of a thermoformer and channels them in a controlled manner into a single lane. The first of a new generation of packaging automation systems from VC999, the CO570 incorporates new advanced control technology and is designed for easy maintenance.