This guide provides some quick tips to avoid snags, box tumbling, & hang-up’s when you’re transferring from one conveyor to another. Transfers are used to move a package from one conveyor to another, often in a longer line. Straight transfers are the most common type, used to connect individual conveyors in a longer line. Typically, these conveyors can be utilized in straight transfer applications:

• Live Roller Conveyor to Live Roller Conveyor
• Live Roller Conveyor to Belt Conveyor
  
• Belt Conveyor to Live Roller Conveyor
• Belt Conveyor to Belt Conveyor
• Gravity Conveyors can be utilized in conjunction with live roller or belts in transfer situations
• Accumulation and gapping conveyors

Check it out: A guide to conveyor transfers

Steel prices and fuel prices are headed nowhere but up in the coming months.

Price increases and surcharges have become commonplace, driven by increased steel costs and skyrocketing fuel prices. We look around and see manufacturers issuing price increases, steel surcharges and fees on a weekly basis. It’s industry-wide and it’s being driven by international demand and also some commodities market issues. We have seen manufacturers decline to provide a price - orders are priced at shipment. This is reminiscent of the 1970’s, and it’s welcome by absolutely nobody who runs an industrial facility or deals in material handling equipment.

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