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The photo here shows how when using elevating plastic chain conveyors to elevate products from low level to high (Or vice-versa) the special belt with soft "Fins" distorts to grab the product from both sides to enable elevation. Here, such a belt is seen used to elevate empty plastic milk bottles in an dairy application. These fins compress the product...

Where fragile or easily marked products are being conveyed on a roller conveyor, it's possible to have plastic rollers fitted. That's fine if the product is light weight, but sometimes that's not the case.Where the product is heavy or the situation demands that the rollers are wider than normal, plastic roller conveyors may not be strong enough to support the...

One of the advantages of modular plastic belt conveyors is that they can be fitted with higher and thinner cleats or flights than normal PVC belts. The added advantage is that these flights are rigid plastic, rather than the more flexible type of cleats that PVC belts usually have. Also, the pitch of these flights is accurate, because they are...

The FK plastic chain conveyor system from  Flexmove now has a new bracket kit (FAVBS-60K) that can adapt the more rigid  64mm wide support profile to support the conveyor  frame. The FK conveyor system is based on a  45mm wide aluminium profile with a 44mm wide plastic modular chain and there has  been a demand to increase the rigidity of...

The current conveyor market conditions have seen an increase in demand for lower cost conveyor system solutions. Like everything in life however, when it comes to conveyors you generally get what you pay for. There are of course low cost conveyors available that have often inferior components and also build quality, which may be a short term economy but in...

Flexmove's economy slat  conveyor system now has a hardened steel topped chain for the FM series  (83mm wide) slat belt. The hardened steel surface is bonded  to the otherwise standard plastic slat chain. The purpose of the hardened steel  surface is to help enable the chain to carry metal parts or other potentially  hard or sharp products. The hardened chain...

In July 2011  Dorner introduced the new eDrive program for their conveyor  belt range which  included a new family of energy efficient gear reducers. To help customers  transition to the new reducers for their conveyor  belts in the  aftermarket parts arena, Dorner developed eDrive retrofit kits to enable the  easy installation of these new gear reducer to existing drive mount...

Quoted this week for a large parcel  carrier.  Gravity  conveyors X 30pcs with zinc plated steel rollers and high sides to the  frames. The customer has requested that we offer a special version of our  standard gravity  conveyor but with extended framework structure. Most gravity roller conveyors have  side frames below the rollers. Sometimes the customer requires that the side ...

With Flexmove slat conveyors the individual lanes can be  positioned very close to each other. When the conveyors are placed so close, it  makes it much easier to transfer products from one lane on a slat conveyor to the other than for  alternative types of conveyor where bearing housings and other conveyor parts  get in the way. This close lane...

This week we have added a link to  Dorner's conveyor CAD design facility to  the home page of the AS Conveyor Systems website. Using this link our customers  can now design and specify in detail their Dorner belt  conveyor. In addition to this they can request  a CAD drawing of the conveyor in multiple CAD and other formats. This allows...