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By Amy DeFayette, Product Manager, VarioFlow Conveyor Systems

Companies making consumer products today often achieve a competitive advantage through more appealing and easier-to-use package designs. As a result, products and packages are constantly changing as manufacturers race to gain and keep that advantage. How can a packaging operation keep up with constant change without increasing costs? Surprisingly, new choices in packaging conveyors can help those companies create a more sustainable packaging system—with lower costs over the long term, the critical flexibility they need, and a healthy reduction in their overall energy footprint.

Structural framing choices can make a difference
Most packaging conveyors today are modular by design, available in pre-configured straight or curved sections that bolt together. The structural conveyor frame is typically made of extruded, T-slotted aluminum, welded steel or, if the packaging environment requires it, stainless steel. To build as much flexibility into their packaging operation as possible, many companies turn to conveyors with an extruded aluminum frame, whose T-slotted design lets them reconfigure the system virtually at will, adding to or repositioning the originally purchased equipment. These anodized aluminum frames don't need welding or painting, so they install quickly. The available T-slots in the extruded aluminum frame also provide a convenient attachment point for other accessory equipment: Lights, vision systems, labeling devices, and more.