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Flex-Line Automation, Inc.

3628 Union School Road Chester, IL 62233 United States

We are an experienced integrator, ready to relieve your stress with our experience and partners. We offer parts sales as well as fully engineered and integrated systems bringing together conveyors, robots, cobots, mobile robots, AGVs, feeders, wrappers, and more. We have over 30 years of experience in helping manufacturers move products. We are FlexLink strategic partners as well as partners and CSIs for multiple robot lines. As an integrator we work with you to design the best solution for your needs without pigeon holing you into one type of solution like a manufacturer would. Reduce your headaches and have us make everything work together for you!

Facility Design & Engineering Services

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Flex-Line Automation offers custom design of feeding equipment, heavy-duty tabletop, belt, roller, and other conveyor services as well as robotics, with over 30 years of experience helping customers design new or optimize existing manufacturing layouts for manufacturing and packaging processes.

See the Facility Design & Engineering Services page on this company's website.

Types of Facility Design & Engineering Services

  • Engineering Services
  • System Integrators

Conveyors

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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.

See the Conveyors page on this company's website.

Types of Conveyors

  • Bucket Conveyors
  • Conveyor Components and Accessories
  • Flighted Conveyors
  • Guides, Rails & Adjustment Systems
  • Infeed & Discharge Conveyors
  • Magnetic Conveyors
  • Modular Conveyors
  • Roller Conveyors
  • Tabletop Conveyors
  • Vibratory Conveyor

Features:

  • Buffering
  • Cases
  • Chain
  • Collating
  • Entry-level/budget models available
  • Hygienic (low-moisture)
  • Incline/decline
  • Indexing
  • Inverting
  • Jam control
  • Mesh
  • Non-stick
  • Packages
  • Polymer
  • Raw product
  • Sorting
  • Steel
  • Vertical
  • Washdown (wet)

Product & Package Handling

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Flex-Line Automation is an authorized FlexLink System builder of conveyors. Company offers custom designed FlexLink Conveyor systems to help customers move boxes, cans, cartons, bags, and more. Systems can elevate, accumulate, lowerate, flip over, and more.

See the Product & Package Handling page on this company's website.

Types of Product & Package Handling

  • Diverters & Rejects
  • Elevators & Lowerators

Features:

  • Collating
  • Counting
  • Entry-level/budget models available
  • Indexing
  • Inverting
  • Robotic

Package Types:

  • Rigid Ampoule or Vial Package Type Icon
    Ampoule or Vial
  • Flexible Bag Package Type Icon
    Bag
  • Rigid Bag-in-box for Liquids Package Type Icon
    Bag-in-box for Liquids
  • Semi-Rigid Blister for Tablets Package Type Icon
    Blister for Tablets
  • Semi-Rigid Blister Pack (Retail) Package Type Icon
    Blister Pack (Retail)
  • Rigid Bottle or Jar Package Type Icon
    Bottle or Jar
  • Semi-Rigid Brick Pack (Laminate) Package Type Icon
    Brick Pack (Laminate)
  • Rigid Can or Canister Package Type Icon
    Can or Canister
  • Rigid Carton (Folding) Package Type Icon
    Carton (Folding)
  • Rigid Carton (Gabletop) Package Type Icon
    Carton (Gabletop)
  • Rigid Cartridge Package Type Icon
    Cartridge
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rigid Tray Package Type Icon
    Tray
  • Semi-Rigid Tube (Flexible) Package Type Icon
    Tube (Flexible)
  • Semi-Rigid Vacuum Skin Pack Package Type Icon
    Vacuum Skin Pack

Palletizing

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Flex-Line Automation is an integrator and distribtor of a variety of collaborative robot and industrial robot palletizers.

See the Palletizing page on this company's website.

Types of Palletizing

  • Palletizers (Robotic)

Features:

  • Cases
  • Floor-level

Package Types:

  • Bulk/Industrial Lined Case Package Type Icon
    Lined Case

Pallet Conveying, Dispensers & Slip Sheets

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Flex-Line Automation, Inc. designs and installs palletizing solutions including pallet handling equipment with conveyors, slip sheet insertion, pallet dispensers, and more. Systems can be designed to handle multiple stack patterns, insert slip sheets, handle different sizes of boxes, various case weights, and palletize at a wide variety of heights easily.

See the Pallet Conveying, Dispensers & Slip Sheets page on this company's website.

Types of Pallet Conveying, Dispensers & Slip Sheets

  • Pallet Conveyors & Turntables
  • Pallet Dispensers
  • Pallet Inverters/Elevators
  • Slip Sheet/Top Sheet Handling

Features:

  • Automatic
  • Manual
  • Semi-automatic

Material Handling

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Flex-Line is an official distributor of automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) from Global AGV. Designed for the rapidly shifting world of automatic pallet handling, these autonomous forklifts are used for end-of-line solutions such as palletizing and case wrapping as well as other applications where delivering and collecting goods from fixed stations and rows is needed. With a user-friendly touch interface using simple mapping, these AGVs are designed to be intuitive. By using a natural navigation based system, the area is scanned and mapped allowing the AGV to easily navigate the environment.

See the Material Handling page on this company's website.

Types of Material Handling

  • Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs)

Features:

  • Automatic
  • Robotic
  • Semi-automatic

Package Forming Equipment

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Flex-Line’s collaborative box erector reduces the footprint needed to erect cartons, automatically replacing boxes in a queue. With greater flexibility and a smaller footprint than many traditional box erecting solutions, they can be redeployed either with different box sizes when needs change. Collaborative box erectors offer flexibility in programming with a variety of ways depending on end user needs. The box erector can queue and replenish certain size boxes automatically as they are used.

Types of Package Forming Equipment

  • Box Making Machines

Features:

  • Corrugated

Package Types:

  • Rigid Carton (Folding) Package Type Icon
    Carton (Folding)

Robotic Integrators

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Flex-Line is an experienced robotic integrator working with Universal Robots, Comau, Staubli, KUKA, MiR, and GlobalAGV to create custom solutions to our customer's needs. Flex-Line's robotic integration services include work in palletizing, machine tending, box erection, part placement, and other production and end-of-line applications.

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
  • Entry-level/budget models available
  • 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 Blister Pack (Retail) Package Type Icon
    Blister Pack (Retail)
  • Semi-Rigid Brick Pack (Laminate) Package Type Icon
    Brick Pack (Laminate)
  • Rigid Can or Canister Package Type Icon
    Can or Canister
  • Rigid Carton (Folding) Package Type Icon
    Carton (Folding)
  • Rigid Cartridge Package Type Icon
    Cartridge
  • 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 Large Bag Package Type Icon
    Large Bag
  • 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
  • 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
  • Semi-Rigid Tube (Flexible) Package Type Icon
    Tube (Flexible)
  • Flexible Vacuum Shrink Pack Package Type Icon
    Vacuum Shrink Pack
  • Semi-Rigid Vacuum Skin Pack Package Type Icon
    Vacuum Skin Pack