Heavy Loads, Light Work: The Future of Pallet Conveying

Heavy Loads, Light Work: The Future of Pallet Conveying

An integrator approached LEWCO, Inc. with a pallet conveying challenge. The customer needed a system to receive pallets from multiple vendors, store them until needed, and then break them down into multiple consolidated shipments for their own customers. LEWCO’s role was to design a solution that could: Buffer incoming pallets for storage. Create picking loops …

Pallet Stacker

Pallet Stacker & Dispenser for Variable Size Pallets

Faced with a significant space constraint, our customer needed a material handling solution capable of moving three fully loaded pallets per minute. Enter LEWCO. In our latest video, we showcase two key components of this high-performance system: our high-lift pallet transfer and variable-size pallet stacker. While these are the stars of the footage, they’re just …

LEWCO Pallet Management and Robotic Interface

Recently a customer requested pallet handling conveyor for their (2) robotic palletizers.  For flexibility and to maximize robot up-time, LEWCO built (2) pallet dispensers that could feed either of the two robots.  To create a buffer queue for stacks of empty pallets, a chain conveyor was placed in front of each pallet dispenser.  Floor space …

LEWCO Pallet Stacking, Destacking, and Dispensing

Pallet stackers/de-stackers provide an automatic method of dispensing or accumulating empty pallets into or removed from a conveyor system. LEWCOrecently added an economical stacker/destacker to its pallet handling conveyor product line. Fixed Pallet Size In addition, LEWCO continues to make the variable pallet size stacker/destacker.With this design, settings can be adjusted to accommodate various pallet heights and widths, should your needs change over time. …

Pallet Dispenser in a Pallet Handling System

LEWCO’s Pallet Dispenser can be an integral component of a Pallet Handling System. A Pallet Dispenser or Stacker/De-stacker provides an automatic method of stacking or de-stacking pallets. This equipment typically runs in destack mode, where a stack of pallets is loaded onto the conveyor and sent in to be de-stacked.  In de-stack mode, one pallet …