A budget and floor space restricted opportunity was presented to LEWCO by one of our integrators. The customer needed to convey two different sizes of round metal products in an alternating release to the next operation. LEWCO always recommends powered conveyors in any automatic process, but the customer was unable to justify a powered conveyor. …
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An automotive manufacturer was building a couple of alternately sized product, being fed at a 1:1 ratio into a parts washer. Upon exiting the washer, the parts needed to be sorted by size into two lanes. Product throughput peaked at 10 parts per minute. The product had residual moisture on it from time to time. …
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Utilizing Intralox modular plastic belting, LEWCO recently supplied a major tire manufacturer with a high speed decline conveyor. The application required a robust design capable of starting and stopping tires weighing as much as 80 pounds every 2.4 seconds, at speeds as high as 160 feet per minute! Working closely with Intralox engineers to design …
