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BCA

7 Opportunity Way Newburyport, MA 01950-4044 United States

Boston Conveyor & Automation (BCA) is an American company providing automation, robotics and conveyor systems for the food and beverage, life sciences and general industry. With in-house engineering and manufacturing, BCA develops and implements automated systems that meet or exceed our customer’s goals for improved productivity and reduced costs.

Food & Beverage Processing Equipment

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Boston Conveyor & Automation supplies custom, robotic and hard-automation based food processing equipment including ultrasonic cutters, dispensing equipment, and stacking/collation equipment.

See the Food & Beverage Processing Equipment page on this company's website.

Types of Food & Beverage Processing Equipment

  • Depositors
  • Food & Beverage Accessories & Components
  • Robotic Processing Equipment
  • Slicing, Dicing, Cutting & Shredding Equipment

Features:

  • Automatic
  • CIP
  • Hygienic (low-moisture)
  • Washdown (wet)
  • Wet

Conveyors

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Boston Conveyor & Automation manufactures stainless steel conveyors that meet a wide range of industry standards, from wipedown construction for GMP and packaged product handling to fully welded sanitary conveyors for the most stringent USDA and EHEDG applications. Product line includes wipedown conveyors, washdown conveyors, sanitary conveyors and ultra sanitary conveyors. Product line accommodates belt types ranging from modular plastic to table top chain, fabric, homogenous, and wire belts. Boston Conveyor & Automation also offers switching conveyors for horizontal, multi-lane and vertical multi-lane applications.

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Types of Conveyors

  • Conveyor Components and Accessories
  • Flighted Conveyors
  • Incline Conveyors
  • Infeed & Discharge Conveyors
  • Modular Conveyors
  • Roller Conveyors
  • Tabletop Conveyors

Features:

  • Buffering
  • Cases
  • Chain
  • Collating
  • Counting
  • Fabric
  • Hygienic (low-moisture)
  • Incline/decline
  • Indexing
  • Inverting
  • Jam control
  • Mesh
  • Non-stick
  • Packages
  • Polymer
  • Raw product
  • Sorting
  • Steel
  • Synthetic fabric
  • Vertical
  • Washdown (wet)

Feeding & Inserting Equipment

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BCA supplies a complete line of robotic pick-and-place systems to handle primary packing tasks in washdown, sanitary environments. BCA’s automated solutions handle applications such as loading rigid trays, clam shells, flow wrappers as well as loading thermoforming packaging machines. BCA’s robotic integration is focused on primary product picking and specialty case packing. Robotic pick-and-place solutions include: vision-guided picking of random products; multiple robots and production lines to do complex tasks and increase throughput; and direct loading on to wrapper lugs, trays or cartons; and automated inspection and rejection tasks.

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Types of Feeding & Inserting Equipment

  • Pick-and-Place

Features:

  • Reciprocating
  • Robotic

Package Types:

  • Flexible Bag Package Type Icon
    Bag
  • Semi-Rigid Blister for Tablets Package Type Icon
    Blister for Tablets
  • Semi-Rigid Brick Pack (Laminate) Package Type Icon
    Brick Pack (Laminate)
  • Rigid Carton (Folding) Package Type Icon
    Carton (Folding)
  • Flexible Chub Pack Package Type Icon
    Chub Pack
  • Semi-Rigid Clamshell Package Type Icon
    Clamshell
  • Rigid Cup, Bowl or Tub Package Type Icon
    Cup, Bowl or Tub
  • Flexible Flow Wrap Package Type Icon
    Flow Wrap
  • Flexible Overwrap Package Type Icon
    Overwrap
  • Semi-Rigid Portion Pack Cup Package Type Icon
    Portion Pack Cup
  • Flexible Pouch Package Type Icon
    Pouch
  • Flexible Sachet Package Type Icon
    Sachet
  • Semi-Rigid Sleeve Package Type Icon
    Sleeve
  • Flexible Stand-up Pouch Package Type Icon
    Stand-up Pouch
  • Flexible Stick Pack Package Type Icon
    Stick Pack
  • Semi-Rigid Thermoformed Semi-rigid Pack Package Type Icon
    Thermoformed Semi-rigid Pack
  • Flexible Thermoformed Vacuum Pack Package Type Icon
    Thermoformed Vacuum Pack
  • Rigid Tray Package Type Icon
    Tray
  • Flexible Vacuum Shrink Pack Package Type Icon
    Vacuum Shrink Pack
  • Semi-Rigid Vacuum Skin Pack Package Type Icon
    Vacuum Skin Pack

Case Packing Equipment

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Specialty robotic case packing systems by Boston Conveyor & Automated are designed specifically for customer applications. Systems are available with stainless steel construction for wet environments.

See the Case Packing Equipment page on this company's website.

Types of Case Packing Equipment

  • Case or Tray Erectors & Formers
  • Case or Tray Loaders
  • Case Sealers

Features:

  • Adhesive
  • Automatic
  • Robotic
  • Robotic loading
  • RSC-pre glued
  • Tape
  • Vertical/Top/drop load

Package Types:

  • Flexible Bag Package Type Icon
    Bag
  • Semi-Rigid Blister for Tablets Package Type Icon
    Blister for Tablets
  • Rigid Bottle or Jar Package Type Icon
    Bottle or Jar
  • Semi-Rigid Brick Pack (Laminate) Package Type Icon
    Brick Pack (Laminate)
  • Flexible Chub Pack Package Type Icon
    Chub Pack
  • Semi-Rigid Clamshell Package Type Icon
    Clamshell
  • Rigid Cup, Bowl or Tub Package Type Icon
    Cup, Bowl or Tub
  • Flexible Flow Wrap Package Type Icon
    Flow Wrap
  • Bulk/Industrial Lined Case Package Type Icon
    Lined Case
  • Flexible Overwrap Package Type Icon
    Overwrap
  • Semi-Rigid Portion Pack Cup Package Type Icon
    Portion Pack Cup
  • Flexible Pouch Package Type Icon
    Pouch
  • Flexible Sachet Package Type Icon
    Sachet
  • Semi-Rigid Sleeve Package Type Icon
    Sleeve
  • Flexible Stand-up Pouch Package Type Icon
    Stand-up Pouch
  • Flexible Stick Pack Package Type Icon
    Stick Pack
  • Semi-Rigid Thermoformed Semi-rigid Pack Package Type Icon
    Thermoformed Semi-rigid Pack
  • Rigid Tray Package Type Icon
    Tray
  • Semi-Rigid Vacuum Skin Pack Package Type Icon
    Vacuum Skin Pack

Robotic Integrators

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BCA’s robotic integration is focused on primary product picking and specialty case packing. Systems feature sanitary design, wash down capable equipment and product manipulation, designed for business efficiency. Robotic picking and packing solutions include: vision-guided picking of random products; multiple robots and production lines to do complex tasks and increase throughput; and systems that are capable of direct loading onto wrapper lugs, trays or cartons.

See the Robotic Integrators page on this company's website.

Types of Robotic Integrators

  • Robotic Integrators Robotic Integrators

Features:

  • 0-15 kg
  • 0-1.5 m
  • 1.5-2.5 m
  • 15-60 kg
  • 2.5 m and above
  • 60-225 kg
  • Frozen
  • Hygienic (low-moisture)
  • Refrigerated
  • Washdown (wet)

Package Types:

  • Flexible Bag Package Type Icon
    Bag
  • Semi-Rigid Blister for Tablets Package Type Icon
    Blister for Tablets
  • Semi-Rigid Brick Pack (Laminate) Package Type Icon
    Brick Pack (Laminate)
  • Flexible Chub Pack Package Type Icon
    Chub Pack
  • Semi-Rigid Clamshell Package Type Icon
    Clamshell
  • Rigid Cup, Bowl or Tub Package Type Icon
    Cup, Bowl or Tub
  • Flexible Flow Wrap Package Type Icon
    Flow Wrap
  • Flexible Overwrap Package Type Icon
    Overwrap
  • Semi-Rigid Portion Pack Cup Package Type Icon
    Portion Pack Cup
  • Flexible Sachet Package Type Icon
    Sachet
  • Semi-Rigid Sleeve Package Type Icon
    Sleeve
  • Flexible Stand-up Pouch Package Type Icon
    Stand-up Pouch
  • Flexible Stick Pack Package Type Icon
    Stick Pack
  • Semi-Rigid Thermoformed Semi-rigid Pack Package Type Icon
    Thermoformed Semi-rigid Pack
  • Flexible Thermoformed Vacuum Pack Package Type Icon
    Thermoformed Vacuum Pack
  • Rigid Tray Package Type Icon
    Tray
  • Flexible Vacuum Shrink Pack Package Type Icon
    Vacuum Shrink Pack
  • Semi-Rigid Vacuum Skin Pack Package Type Icon
    Vacuum Skin Pack