Roller Conveyor
Roller Conveyor
A roller conveyor is a type of material handling conveyor system that uses a series of rollers to move goods, products, or materials from one point to another within a facility. The rollers are designed to rotate freely, allowing for smooth and efficient movement of items along the conveyor. Roller conveyors are widely used in industries such as logistics, manufacturing, distribution centers, and warehouses.
All kind ofboxes or products that are of the granular or solid texture (uniform or irregular in shape) can be conveyed through this Machine.
Gravity Roller Conveyor and Powered Roller Conveyor Systems for Carton and Case Handling
Roller conveyors use a series of cylinders mounted on a fixed frame to support and guide products along a defined path, with gravity roller conveyors relying on a slight downward slope or operator push to move products, and powered roller conveyor systems using motorised rollers or a driving belt beneath the rollers to move products actively.
Fair Pack’s roller conveyor range covers both configurations and suits the product transfer requirements of packaging lines that handle rigid products such as cartons, boxes, crates, and drums.
In a packaging plant context, a gravity roller conveyor is the standard solution for accumulating filled and sealed cartons between the case packer and the pallet stretch wrapper, allowing packs to queue without a powered drive system.
The flat roller conveyor in powered configuration serves applications where products must move against gravity, where consistent spacing between products is required for downstream labelling or inspection, or where the product is too light to flow reliably on gravity rollers.
Fair Pack manufactures roller conveyor systems with roller diameters from 50 mm to 89 mm, roller pitch from 50 mm to 150 mm depending on minimum product footprint, and frame widths from 300 mm to 1,200 mm.
Warehouse Roller Conveyors and Industrial Roller Conveyor Applications in Food and FMCG Distribution
Warehouse roller conveyors play a critical role in food and FMCG distribution centre operations where packed cartons and corrugated cases must be moved efficiently from inbound receiving to storage, from storage to order picking, and from picking to outbound despatch.
Fair Pack’s roller conveyor systems for warehouse applications are designed for continuous heavy-duty operation, with galvanised roller shafts that resist the corrosion caused by cleaning chemicals and cold storage environments, and sealed bearings that maintain free rolling without lubrication.
An industrial roller conveyor manufacturer India customer at a large food distribution facility can integrate powered roller conveyor system sections with divert sorter gates, accumulation zones, and barcode scanners to create an automated carton routing system where each case is directed to the correct despatch lane without manual handling.
For smaller operations, roller conveyors from Fair Pack are supplied in modular sections of 1.5 metre and 3 metre lengths that can be assembled on site without special tools, allowing the roller conveyor system layout to be reconfigured when the warehouse’s product mix or flow pattern changes.
