What Are Roller Conveyors For In Material Handling?

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

Expansion of Caster Concepts with Cutting-edge Conveyor Concepts

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

Bookings for Conveyor increased to nearly 25%

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

Other Essential Parts of a Conveyor System

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 Tables

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

Keeping Production Rolling with Ball Transfer Tables – Part 2

Ball transfer tables have load bearing spherical balls that are omni directional which are mounted inside of a restraining device.  Each of the large balls that make up the ball transfer table is usually supported by smaller ball bearings in hemispherical cup.  The balls are mostly used in an inverted position while items or products … Read more

Keeping Production Rolling with Ball Transfer Tables – Part 1

Conveyor roller systems have been a mainstay with keeping the warehouse supplies and materials handling industry moving forward.  The roller conveyor system is an intrical part of any distribution center.  Employees don’t have to waste time transferring product from one area to the next.  The extra added wear and tear on the body from lifting, … Read more