Guides, Rails & Adjustment Systems
(49 companies)Adjustable or fixed guide rail systems and related components are used to protect, guide, and control containers to avoid jams, product spillage, bottle shingling and other problems during conveyance. Plan to purchase new conveying, feeding and handling equipment? Explore our articles to get tips.
A. S. Thomas, Inc.
A.S. Thomas supplies guide rail adjustments for all types of conveyors, from tabletop to overhead, chain, belt, cable, air and others. Rail adjustments feature full washdown and IP67-rated actuators.
Acasi Machinery
Acasi machinery manufactures standard conveyors for all its machines as well as custom conveyors for customers. Straight, curved, and custom tabletop conveyors are manufactured in stainless steel and have toolless guide rail adjustments. Acasi stocks 4.5-in. straight conveyors in 10-, 13-, 16- and 20-ft. lengths. Custom conveyors include 7.5- and 10-in. wide conveyors (other widths by request), L shape, U shape, S shape conveyors and any other curve configuration of virtually any length. Acasi also supplies raised, chemical resistant and sanitary conveyors.
Accutek Packaging Equipment Co.
Accutek specializes in manufacturing customizable conveyor systems, available in both open top and closed top sanitary designs. Accutek conveyors can be tailored to fit any desired length or width, providing flexibility to meet specific requirements. Each conveyor is constructed using robust stainless steel materials, ensuring durability and longevity. Additionally, Accutek conveyors feature height adjustable stands and variable speed drives, allowing for precise control. Whether the customer needs an open top or closed top sanitary design, Accutek offers a wide range of lengths and widths to accommodate diverse needs.
Advanced Manufacturing Technology
AMT offers a comprehensive array of designs of conveyor solutions, emphasizing simplicity. AMT specializes in air conveyor systems for plastic bottles such as neck ring air conveyors, deck air conveyors, and pre-form conveyors for bottle handling. In addition, AMT manufactures custom-engineered mechanical conveyors, ranging from table top systems to to specialty magnetic designs. All models are engineered for easy maintenance and changeovers, reliable performance under continuous operation, and longevity. Conveyors are designed to operate quietly and efficiently while delivering savings in energy and CO2 emissions.
Advantage Conveyor, Inc.
Advantage Conveyor supplies a vast range of custom and modular conveying equipment for food and beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and consumer industries. Machines include tabletop conveyors, singulating and combining conveyors, indexing conveyors, bucket conveyors, roller and ball transfer conveyors as well as a complete line of conveyor accessories such as gates, pushers, flow rails, guide rails and much more.
APS Packaging & Automation
APS Packaging & Automation designs and manufactures a wide range of conveyors for any kind of package. APS Packaging & Automation's product line includes conveyors featuring stainless steel frameworks, guide rails with a low friction coefficient and sensors that detect the presence of containers. The company can also optimize the flow of the containers to obtain a optimum feed to other packaging machines in the line.
Ashworth Bros., Inc.
Ashworth Bros., Inc., headquartered in Winchester, Virginia, manufactures and services both metal and plastic conveyor belting for straight running, turn-curve, low-tension and self-stacking spirals.
BellatRx Inc.
BellatRx manufactures raised bed sanitary design conveyors for easy cleaning and for avoiding entrapment areas. Conveyors feature oversized drive motors to ensure proper handling of heavy containers. Available in straight and flex versions for curved configurations. Design lines with 90-degree turns using curved sections or corner turntables for sharp turns. Automatic and manual set point guide rail setup is available to minimize changeover time.
Bevco Sales International, Inc.
Bevco conveyors are specialized for the food, beverage and consumer goods industries. Conveyor products, including tabletop, mat-top, air/pneumatic conveyor, and six-lane variety pack conveyors, are engineered to move containers and packages of various sizes along processing lines with maximum efficiency and reliability. Bevco offers custom designed conveyors to suit production needs of their customers.
Container Handling Systems Corporation
CHSC conveyor systems offer a wide variety of design options to meet customer conveying needs. Products include table and mat top chain conveyor systems, air deck conveyors and Zone Touch zero pressure tabletop conveyors. CHSC also supplies cable conveyor systems for conveying metal cans. Related conveying systems include pressureless single filer systems as well as bi-directional and in-line flow accumulation tables.
Deitz Company
Pharmafill conveyors by Deitz Company feature a sanitary design with stainless steel construction for filling and packaging pharmaceutical, nutrition, and other products. Modular design and adjustable height ensure exactly the proper size. Products include the Pharmafill BCV1 bottomless conveyor, which automatically holds bottles over a printer for bottom coding then transfers them back to the packaging line. This hugger belt conveyor enables printing on bottle bottoms without stopping, slowing or removing bottles from the packaging line.
Descon Conveyor Systems Corp.
Descon provides a complete suite of conveyor solutions for a range of applications, with a focus on the particular demands of the food and beverage industry. Featured systems include Descon’s full line of integrated case conveyors, designed for strength, rigidity and performance. Descon conveyor products also include plastic modular belting, low-back pressure type chains as well as accumulation and friction/non-friction top chains for braking.
Dispac
Dispac offers a wide range of conveyors that handle bottles, cans, multipacks, cases and other packages. Tabletop conveyors are designed for the the efficient transfer of all types of materials or products. Conveyor styles include chain, plastic modular, roller, cable, magnetic, gravity, gripper conveyors and spiral styles.
Dorner
Dorner’s conveyors are designed to move product to the exact location, at the exact time and in the exact position it needs to be for the next phase of the production line. Products include 1100 Series of miniature conveyors, the 2200 Series of low profile, high performance fabric and modular belt conveyors, the 3200 Series heavy duty, low maintenance conveyors, and the 7x Series of sanitary conveyors designed to improve food safety. Designed for precision conveyance, conveyors feature in-house belting capabilities. Dorner conveyors are designed to easily integrate with robots, workers and equipment.
Duravant
Duravant manufactures conveyors for every plant that handle applications ranging from upright bagging and turning/kicking, to conditioning, stacking and unique power curves.
Dyco, Inc.
Dyco offers custom conveying solutions including extensive cable conveyor systems for many industries and the patented modular aluminum Red Line tabletop bottle conveyor, designed for long runs and minimized chain surging.
E-PAK Machinery, Inc.
E-PAK variable speed conveyors are designed for various production needs of the end user and are available in a wide variety of lengths, widths, and construction materials and types for different packaging environments. Conveyors come in both straight and curved configurations (L, S, and U-shapes) to help end-users maximize their production proficiency and fit space requirements. Modular designs allow for adding complete conveyors or extensions to existing production lines. E-PAK also specialize in bi-flow and cooling conveyors.
Eastey
Eastey’s EC1248 and EC1848 variable speed conveyors are designed for reliable stand-alone product transport during product marking of primary or secondary products such as cases. Models are engineered to make a convenient add-on infeed or exit feed conveyor to existing case taping or shrink wrapping equipment, and can be integrated with inkjet printing equipment. Each conveyor comes pre-drilled in multiple locations to easily add printer and encoder mounting brackets. The smooth drive belt provides consistent speed for reliable, scannable barcoding and product transfer.
FEMC
FEMC offers a comprehensive range of premium conveyors, specially designed for food packaging and manufacturing automation. Their extensive selection of conveyor systems provides reliable and efficient solutions to streamline production processes while maintaining the highest standards of hygiene and safety. Conveyor solutions include flat belt conveyors, fixtured belt conveyors, and flighted belt conveyors. FEMC’s flat belt conveyors are engineered for versatility and ease of integration. Made from food-grade materials and featuring easily adjustable speed controls, these durable conveyors ensure smooth, continuous product flow in a wide range of food packaging applications, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity. Fixtured belt conveyors are designed specifically for precision and accuracy in applications requiring precise product placement and orientation. Equipped with custom fixtures and adjustable guides, these conveyors guarantee gentle handling and optimal positioning of products, improving efficiency and reducing waste. FEMC’s flighted belt conveyors handle products with varying shapes and sizes. Featuring a series of cleats or flights, these conveyors securely transport items at inclines or declines without the risk of product spillage. Built with high-quality, food-safe materials, these conveyors maintain the integrity of products while ensuring a smooth, uninterrupted flow throughout.
Flex-Line Automation, Inc.
FlexLink tabletop conveyors are built of stainless steel and aluminum. Company also offers hygienic solutions, mK belt and chain conveyors, Titan heavy duty roller conveyors and more. Featured products include the FlexLink conveyor system, designed for flexibility of product handling for industries that require delicate handling for smaller, more sensitive products like pharmaceuticals, aerosol cans, personal care products and more.
FlexLink Systems, Inc
FlexLink offers a range of conveyor systems. Product line includes flexible conveyors, plastic chain conveyors, wide belt conveyors (WLX), automated assembly and material handling systems (aluminum conveyors and stainless steel conveyors, the X-Series). Pallet and puck conveyor handling systems permit efficient single piece flow solutions. Each can be adapted to varying environments.
Hoosier Feeder
Hoosier Feeder Company offers a full line of conveyors to fit the application from robust and durable conveyors for heavy parts or light, flexible conveyance for high-speed applications. Platforms include belt, modular chain, wash-down food grade, and chain conveyors.
Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc
Kaps-All supplies CONVEYS-ALL® modular conveyor designs that require no tools for adjustments. Standard components are used for simple and complete in-house installation eliminating expensive downtime and ensuring easy maintenance. The pre-assembled modules are easily connected together, offering flexibility of use as each conveyor component can be mixed, matched, reconfigured or added-on when needed. The standard stainless steel frame eliminates painted surfaces, aluminum extrusions and crudely welded non-sanitary systems on the market. CONVEYS-ALL conveyors are competitively priced and feature high quality materials and components, along with rugged construction, reliability and longevity of operation. All conveyor systems are guaranteed for 3 years. "Off-the-shelf" conveyor components can be shipped within 48 hours upon receipt of order.
Keenline Conveyor Systems, LLC
Keenline offers a line of super-sanitary designed conveyors for handling raw food and raw materials. In addition to its standard stainless steel conveyor lines, Keenline offers these custom designed conveyors to meet all raw food and food conveyance needs. Keenline builds a wide range of z-incline and z-decline conveyors that are easy to clean and clean in place products. USDA, FDA, 3A, meat, dairy, etc.) are all available design specifications upon request.
Laughlin Conveyor
Laughlin Conveyor offers a variety of conveyor system solutions for nearly every industry and application. Laughlin offers modular plastic belt conveyors, table top chain conveyors, composition belt conveyors, rod style metal belt conveyors, driven and gravity roller conveyors among other types.
MAC Automation Concepts
MAC Automation Concepts manufactures aluminum, stainless steel and powder-coated steel conveyors. Product line includes belt conveyors, roller conveyors, hopper conveyors, curved conveyors in low-profile, incline, horizontal incline, Z-style, and other styles.
mk North America, Inc
mk North America provides a wide selection of standard and custom conveyors, as well as a full line of factory equipment, from chain and cleated belt conveyors to flat belt and modular plastic belt conveying systems. Company also offers conveyor engineering design services to help both end-users and integrators serve their industry requirements.
Morrison Container Handling Solutions
Morrison Auto Adjust Rails® are designed to be user-friendly, easy-to-retrofit, and adaptable for current and future containers and cases. Morrison’s rails facilitate quick and easy changeovers for any number of sizes with the touch of a button, saving operators from wasting time and resources. These pneumatic cylinder-based rails reduce the need for operator intervention, helping to keep employees safe and giving them an opportunity to focus on other tasks. Morrison provides full project management from design, manufacture and demolition of existing rails to installing new positioners, setting up controls, and starting up the new system.
Multi-Conveyor
Multi-Conveyor makes standard and custom conveyors designed to meet or exceed application requirements, while saving critical floor space in the process. Company helps its customers accumulate, rotate, elevate, integrate, lift-gate, incline, combine, decline, and alpine packages. Conveyors are engineered for inline, sanitary, standard, hand-pack, and custom jobs to grip, flip, split, invert, divert, merge, twist, turn, curve, transfer, push, stack, and move products in serpentine patterns, among other capabilities.
NCC Automated Systems
NCC Automation is a builder and integrator of sanitary and regular turnkey conveyor systems for unitized products such as cartons, cases, containers, boxes, bins, totes and gaylord containers. Sanitary conveying systems include wire mesh, drag chain, gravity roller, tight transfer and trough conveyors as well as storeveyors for bulk products. Non-sanitary systems include bulk handling, inspection, radius, case handling, wedge and twin-strand conveyors. In partnership with Dorner, NCC offers a wide range of building and integration services for FlexMove conveyors. NCC’s turnkey conveyor systems team integrates equipment for customer products with value-added services in an efficient turnaround time that meets customer needs in packaging, food processing, food packaging, co-packing, personal products, pharmaceutical, pick systems and other applications.
Nercon Conveyor Systems
Nercon’s line of conveyors will move end-user products up or down, side to side, in addition to accumulating, rotating and turning. The ProCore® conveyor line features different types of conveyor systems and packaging equipment, including mat top, tabletop and belt conveyor systems. Manufactured in-house for fast delivery and installation onto factory floors, ProCore® conveyors are extensively tested for increased up-time performance. All ProCore® models are built with a standard base of equipment that allows it to be modified for customer preferences, making it a hybrid between standard “one-size-fits-all” and a custom product. Nercon also offers HydroCore® hygienic clean-in-place (CIP) conveyors and sanitary clean-out-of-place (COP) conveyor systems, designed and manufactured for efficiency, fewer repairs, less time between product changeovers, more uptime and increased profit margins. Sanitary Z incline conveyor and washdown spiral are engineered to help meet today’s stringent sanitary standards while still optimizing production operations.
Pack Air Inc.
Pack Air offers conveying solutions for a wide range of industries, including paper/tissue/non-wovens, food and beverage, CPGs, health and hygiene, warehousing and distribution, end-of-line, industrial and specialty, and industrial controls. Their product portfolio encompasses conveyor systems with mild steel, plastic, and stainless steel construction options, along with belts in various materials like fabric, rubber, and modular plastic. Pack Air also supplies air conveyors, zero tangent modular belts, and custom-fabricated solutions, as well as control systems, specialty devices, and controls for conveyors.
Packaging Dynamics, Ltd.
Packaging Dynamics, Ltd. offers custom configured, job specific-sized conveyors. Supplier works with existing line layouts to offer customers a cost-effective solution to meet plant requirements. Conveyors can be equipped with transfer plates and product diverters as well as bi-directional and serpentine accumulators.
Precision Automation Company, Inc.
Precision Automation Company integrate conveyors from suppliers including Hilmot LLC, Roach Conveyors, TGW Conveyor Systems, Span Tech Conveyors and Daifuku Wynright. Range of conveyors are designed for a wide variety of products: cases, bottles, cans, pallets, drums, containers and more. Areas of expertise include sanitary food and beverage handling, conveyor systems for shipping applications, carton and case handling, and individual product conveying for food, beverage, pharmaceutical and consumer products. The process starts with the investigation and understanding of the customer’s needs. Precision Automation manages the entire conveyance project with thorough analysis, all the way through installation and training.
QC Conveyors
Conveyors for a wide variety of applications include modular plastic chain conveyors and belt conveyors, for washdown and heavy duty applications. Product line also includes tabletop and magnetic conveyors and beyond. Conveyors handle speeds up to 416 fpm and loads up to 800 lb. and widths from 2- to 48 in.
R. L. Craig
R.L. Craig's line of conveying equipment includes tabletop, split-belt, belt, mat top and end-to-end conveyors. In addition, R.L. Craig offers conveying accessories such as support rails, adjustable guide rails, uprights, support bases and related conveyor components.
Regal Rexnord Corporation
Regal Rexnord offers System Plast® and Valu Guide® high quality plastic conveyor chains, modular plastic belts, and industry-leading conveying components. Specialists in helping customers to do business more sustainably by saving water, Regal Rexnord’s extensive product line includes proprietary plastic conveyor chains, belts and components. These products have an extremely low coefficient of friction, enabling the elimination of soap and water or other lubricants from conveyor systems. Regal Rexnord conveyors have been successfully implemented in food, beverage and material handling facilities, especially in craft brewing, canning and bottling. In facilities where there is often downtime due to conveyor jams or tedious guide rail changeovers, System Plast® Valu Guide® products can help. Speedset™ brackets are made to reduce both errors and downtime spent for guide rail changeover, and when those guide rails, wear strips or bead rail are made of Nolu® plastic, the low friction surfaces promote material flow. The high resistance of these products to corrosion and wear helps decrease unplanned downtime and noise, and increase your efficiency and speed.
Rexfab Corp.
Rexfab offers conveyor solutions for the entire production line. Rexfab can help automate high-volume production lines in the baking and food industries. Conveyor solutions are designed to meet all production and sanitary requirements. They feature stainless-steel construction for resilience and ease of cleaning, and modular plastic belting with a variable AC gear motor for optimal performance.
Robotunits Inc.
Robotunits offers a wide variety of standard and custom conveyors with short lead times, including belt, modular belt, powered roller, transfer unit, turntable conveyors in addition to conveyor technology accessories and side guide systems. The variable Robotunits Lift Station enables the energy-efficient transport of products on two levels within industry and production areas, with standard conveying heights up to 5 m.
Ryson International, Inc.
Ryson supplies vertical spiral conveyors, which need less floor space than conventional conveyors and are also faster and more reliable than any elevator or lift. Central to their design is Ryson’s proprietary slat-style belts designed with rolling friction without any sliding movements or wear strips. This facilitates a small footprint, high speed, low noise, low maintenance and a long life. Ryson Spirals are available in powder coated carbon steel, stainless steel, hybrid and freezer versions.
Septimatech Group Inc.
Septimatech offers a wide range of adjustable guide rail systems that are designed to deliver fast, reliable set-ups that eliminate human and mechanical variables and fine-tuning to achieve improved container control and reduced downtime caused by bottle shingling, jamming, popping up and tipping. Guide rails are engineered to be economic and easy to use. Septimatech also offers a multi-lane guide rail adjustment system as well as numerous related conveyor components and accessories.
Slideways, Inc.
Standard and custom designed plastic parts and components for conveyors include bearings, conveyor chain and belt guides, simple and complex custom designed plastic parts, plastic extrusions, SlideTrax plastic chain tracks and more.
Span Tech Conveyors
Span Tech LLC designs durable plastic chain conveyors and material handling solutions. Span Tech develops unique, customizable technical solutions for processing applications in core industries that include: food production, beverage production, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and e-commerce. Vast conveyor line includes standard curving and straight conveyors, incline conveyors, changing elevation topper lifts, spiral elevators, twist conveyors, microspan and wire mesh belt transfer conveyors, conveyor components, guide rails, conveyors for metal detector systems and much more.
Stainless Specialists Inc.
SSi’s custom-made conveyors are used in a range of packaging applications for an wide variety of manufacturing and processing facilities, ranging from the food to the automotive industry. In addition to conveyors, SSi also offers a custom 3D scan within or around existing facilities or conveyors in order to measure the area around tight spaces to help reduce downtime during installation of new conveyors.
STORCAN
Storcan has been manufacturing, conceptualizing, installing and commissioning custom conveyor systems for the food, bottling and packaging industries since 1976. Company offers belt, mat top, and sanitary conveyors for the food industry; air conveyors, bottle and can conveyors and pressureless single filer machines for bottling operations; and box conveyors, drag chain conveyors, motorized roller conveyors for box, carton and pallet handling.
Tessera Group Inc.
George A. Wright, a Tessera Group company, specializes in the design, manufacture and integration of customized specialty stainless steel conveyor systems, secondary product handling conveyors, CDLR roller conveyors, and 24 V DC roller conveyor systems.
TORFRESMA USA LLC
Torfresma manufactures hygienic and non-hygienic conveyor systems. Hygienic conveyor systems are utilized in fabrication and fully washdown areas in food facilities. These conveyors come standard with CIP (clean-in-place) capability and have a robust design. Non-hygienic conveyors are utilized in secondary processing areas for companies in the food and consumer goods industries. Torfresma also has a wide variety of sorters in its portfolio to transfer cases 90 degrees or 30 degrees. Torfresma conveyors utilize rollers and belting depending on the application.
Uni Pak Corp.
Uni-Pak Corp. designs and manufactures custom conveyor systems used in all types of industries: beverage handling, electronics, automotive, pharmaceutical, and more. Product line includes an array of conveyors, including vertical, mat top, metal free, belt, table top, and chain belt conveyors. Bottle and can divider and combiner multiple chain conveyor systems are also available, with optional vibrators. Also available are live corner and conveyor corner transfers to minimize dead plate transfer widths. Most conveyor systems use mild steel or stainless steel construction.
WeighPack Systems Inc. / Paxiom
WeighPack manufactures a range of different types of conveyors for turnkey system integrations to help products dispense into packaging machines, containers or accumulation rotary tables. WeighPack’s container indexing conveyor is designed to automatically index and fill rigid containers including clamshells, bottles, jars and cans. Easily integrated with any filling device, the indexing conveyor features adjustable guide rail, a pneumatic indexing mechanism, an AC variable speed drive, container positioning sensors, no container/no fill features and more. WeighPack’s box indexing conveyor is designed for automatically indexing and filling corrugated boxes, trays and rigid containers, and can be integrated with any filling device. The exit conveyor, featuring a 304 stainless steel construction and a KB drive, is engineered to integrate with any automatic bagging machine to carry product from ground level to a rotary table or the operator.
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