When your products or components are small, lightweight and moving at a steady speed, you need a transfer solution that will keep things on track, literally. Vacuum conveyors use suction to hold items of all sizes in place as they move along, up and down the belt. Vacuum belt conveyors are ideal when you’re… Read more »
Category: Belt Conveyors
Seamless Integration Powered by Precision Move Platform
Recently, a Dorner customer was in the position of needing to automate a product labeling line. The line presented a unique challenge, as the conveyor system had to operate within the specific timing of the product being placed, labeled, and sealed. Additionally, to seal the label one brush swept the top down, and a… Read more »
Everything You Want to Know About Alpine Conveyors
Introduction to Alpine Conveyors In most facilities, space is a premium, and conveyor location is often dependent on machinery and facility design. At Dorner, our goal is to simplify your processes rather than impede them. We have several solutions designed to give you more floor space and easy access to machinery and other areas of… Read more »
Dorner’s 2200 Series Manufactured Globally
This past fall, Dorner Europe started manufacturing 2200 Series Conveyors at our factory in Jülich, Germany. This step enabled customers throughout Europe to take delivery of their equipment faster than ever before. Recently, Dorner Europe set-up and assembled an order for twenty-five 2200 Series iDrive Conveyors, which will be used to integrate with robot! The… Read more »
How V-Guided Belts Can Benefit Your Business
At Dorner, we develop products and solutions that help move your products more efficiently. That’s why we use V-Guided belt tracking, a superior way of ensuring a conveyor belt tracks properly for the entire length of the conveyor. More robust tracking means less downtime. Increased precision means more consistency. More belt control means smaller,… Read more »
Retirement Announcement
After many years of dependable service, we are saying thank you and farewell to Dorner’s 4100 Series and 6200 Series Conveyors as they announce their retirement. Throughout the year’s Dorner’s product line has evolved from a single, low profile metalworking conveyor to a robust line of industrial, sanitary, and automation precision conveyance solutions. We are… Read more »
Recirculating Products
When moving products down a manufacturing line, there are places that can backup and cause the entire line to slow or shut down. To solve this problem recirculating conveyors can be installed on those sections of the line. This can help protect products from damage and reduce jams. These systems can be in a… Read more »
V-Guide or Crowned Pulley, Which one is Right for You?
One of the largest issues of belt conveyor maintenance is belt tracking. When belts aren’t running straight on the pulleys it can cause premature wear and damage to the conveyor and belt. There are a lot of factors that can affect belt tracking such as belt splicing, pulley accuracy, or proper belt tensioning. The two… Read more »
Upgraded Motors Improve Efficiency and Performance for Dorner’s 1100 Series Belted Conveyor Platform
Dorner’s smallest conveyor is getting a big boost in efficiency. The 1100 Series conveyor platform now comes with two upgraded motor options that are 50 percent more quiet than the previous version, while also being rated for 10,000 hours of operation. For added flexibility, customers can choose between either a fixed or variable speed motor,… Read more »
Dorner’s 1100 Series – Not Just Small Conveyors
Did you know that Dorner’s 1100 Series isn’t just for small applications? While the 1100 Series is ideal for small parts, they are more than just small conveyors. The conveyor pictured above is a 60″ long conveyor! 1100 Series General Specifications: Belt Widths: 1.75″, 3.75″, 6″, 8″, & 10″ Conveyor Lengths: 10.5″ to 72″ in… Read more »
Magnetic Conveyors Improve Process
This video shows magnetic conveyors designed to move and transfer a variety of hand tools through a buffing process. The conveyors were designed to ensure that each side of the hand tools went through the process to lightly clean the laser marks on both sides of the tools. The buffering wheels were added at the… Read more »
Precision Move Conveyors Online
Full details on our newest conveyor platforms, 2200 Precision Move and 3200 Precision Move conveyors, are now available online. The new Precision Move offering has the latest advancements in timing belt and drive technology from our low-profile belt conveyors. The offering is ideal for the assembly, manufacturing and packaging industries that call for extremely accurate movement of product… Read more »
A Fresh Take on Dining – No Guts, No Gourmet
We recently came across an article sent to us by our distributor, Braas Company, on Scott Joesph’s Orlando Restaurant Guide about an interesting new way of dining in Orlando at Gary’s Seafood Specialties – the area’s leading provider of fresh fish and other gourmet food items to restaurants in Florida and around the country. At Gary’s, they take in whole… Read more »
With packaging conveyors, flexibility starts before installation
Pan Demetrakakes, editor at Food & Beverage Packaging, recently published an interesting article on how “Speed, flexibility and energy savings are top considerations for conveyors of all types.” As there is still some lingering uncertainty in our current economy, the buying process for capital equipment, including belt conveyors, can take longer than it used to. Perhaps companies are… Read more »
Pet Food Packaging Belt Conveyor System
Recently, a prominent producer of pet food came to Dorner with a specific goal: move their product from a processing machine to a bagging machine for packaging. Since the pieces of pet food were small, they needed a way to convey the product from various elevations without transfers to reduce the amount of product lost… Read more »
Small Spaces, Lots of Options: Low Profile Belt Conveyors
Recently, a large manufacturer of case packers required a 3200 series industrial conveyor with a width of 18″ and a length of 18″ (that’s right, a square conveyor). A servo motor provided by the customer was the means to drive this conveyor and it was to be built into the conveyor using as little space as possible.… Read more »