Custom Accumulation Table for Bottles
Our custom engineering team recently partnered with two of our sister companies, Arpac and Ohlson Packaging, to create a packaging line for cannabis bottles. Our portion of the project involved designing three custom accumulation tables, each using five of our AS40 Conveyors. In each table, three conveyors run one direction while two run the opposite direction. […]
Refreshed QC Conveyors Website
We’re kicking off the new year with a fresh new look for our website! We’ve updated the look and feel of our website to a new design that’s clean and easy to navigate, with all the content and features of our previous site. We invite you to take a look and see how our conveyors […]
Revised Product Names
We’ve revised the names of many of our products. The conveyors you know and love are staying the same; we’re simply making our product naming more clear and consistent! Please see the chart below for the full list of product names. Series Old Name New Name Automation Series AS40 AS40 AS65 AS40-CD AS40Z AS40-Z HydroClean Series […]
New Product: Backlight Conveyors
We’re excited to announce that QC Conveyors now offers a backlight conveyor option that’s perfect for providing contrast for vision systems in part inspection and robot orientation applications. A few months ago, we introduced you to a solution at Byrne Electrical that used backlight conveyors to identify properly formed parts and orient the robot to […]
Backlight Conveyors help make assembly more efficient at Byrne Electrical
Design World magazine recently highlighted a QC Conveyors system that helps Byrne Electrical assemble electrical outlets quickly and efficiently. Nine of the conveyors (out of 28 total) have backlights built into the frame that provide contrast for a vision system to identify properly shaped/separated parts and guide a robot to pick them up. The automated […]
QC Industries is now QC Conveyors
We’re excited to announce an important evolution in our company’s branding. We’re now known as QC Conveyors! This was a very natural change for us for a number of reasons: Many of our customers already refer to us this way The new name does a better job of conveying exactly what it is we do […]
QC Industries acquired by Duravant
We’re excited to announce QC Industries has been acquired by Duravant, a global engineered equipment manufacturer serving the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors. Headquartered in Downers Grove, IL, Duravant has a broad portfolio of operating companies able to provide end-to-end process solutions for their customers. Much like QC Industries, they focus on building […]
Custom hopper conveyor for elevating lightweight parts
Recently a customer asked our Custom Engineering team to design a hopper for an AS40 Conveyor. The application was to transport small, lightweight parts that would be accumulated in the hopper and then moved up an incline for discharge. In addition, this application required the design of custom side rails, a custom discharge chute and a custom aluminum […]
5 Places to Find QC Conveyors in Action at Pack Expo 2017
At Pack Expo Las Vegas 2017, you’ll find our conveyors in our booth (C-2518), of course, but did you know we have partners all over the show floor who are using our conveyors as part of their booths as well? Here are five places you’ll be able to see them: 1. Foxjet: Booth C-4314 Foxjet uses several […]
First look: refreshed QC Industries logo
We recently launched a new version of the QC Industries logo. It keeps the well-established brand identity of the old logo, but brings it in line with 2017 standards, using more vibrant colors and more refined shapes. Among other things, the changes include: Refined highlights Modified colors More proportional box Refined C shape New typeface We’re excited […]
