Slat Conveyors

Here at AS Conveyor Systems we regularly design intricate custom layouts where bulky more traditional automation systems just simply won’t fit. Some application designs dictate product to be moved in and around equipment and machinery. To accommodate this need, conveyors need to be flexible and make tight turns – which is ideal for flexible chain and slat conveyors. Automation applications within...

Another week, another new belt design for Flexmove slat conveyors. This slat chain belt is made form the same plastic construction as the standard belt, but the EM83PC-5 belt for the FM system (83mm wide chain) has a new design where the "Teeth" of the standard belt are smoothed out. On the straight there is no visible gap and 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...

Flexmove have just introduced driven  bridge modules for it's range of slat conveyors. Sometimes when 2 plastic chain  conveyors meet end to end there is a gap between the drive end of one slat  conveyor ant the tail end of another. This is due to the larger drive and  tail end sprocket diameters that these conveyors usually  have. This situation...

The Flexmove plastic slat conveyor systems utilises plastic chains to transport products in an efficient manner. The plastic chain allows a certain amount of product slippage and this can be useful when merging two or more products from different sources. In the video here you can see that these round products are perfect for merging because they are flat and...