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Plastic Packaging Machinery Parts for Material Handling Operations

Oct 27, 2014 9:11:00 AM / by Slideways, Inc.

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Companies and processing plants looking for plastic components for their packaging machinery rely on Slideways to get lightweight, less expensive, and easy-to-maintain alternatives to metal parts. These components include:

  1. Plastic Bearings
  2. Rollers
  3. Pulleys
  4. Chain Guides
  5. Wear strips
  6. Belt Guides
  7. Star Wheels, and
  8. Conveyor Components

Get Custom Plastic Parts for Packaging Equipment

Whether you’re a packaging equipment manufacturer or a distribution operations manager looking for packaging machinery parts, we can help you with obtaining high-quality plastic components for packaging equipment and conveyor systems that are:

1. Lightweight

Reducing the weight of your equipment brings lots of benefits. They move more efficiently; and are easier to install, operate, and maintain. Naturally, plastic weighs less than metals and alloys but maintains the same strength and adds additional operational benefits. One more advantage of plastic packaging machinery parts is that they are cheaper to ship since they give you more parts per pound.

2. Low friction

Gears and other components made of plastic work seamlessly together, causing little friction. This also means they dissipate less heat during equipment operation. With less heat comes less wear and tear and failures that require maintenance. Also, thermoplastics hold up in high-stress situations and withstand heat better.

3. Wear and corrosion-resistant

Plastic components withstand harsh chemicals better than most materials. Industries dealing with chemicals and intense production processes prefer plastics to metal since they require less protection and maintenance to keep functional.

4. Quieter running

Because of their low friction, plastic packaging machinery components produce a faint sound when compared to metals. Not only that, by virtue of their molecular structure, plastics make less noise than metals.

5. Lower cost

Manufacturers spend less on manufacturing engineered plastic parts, especially in painting since colors are incorporated into plastic compounds.

6. Sanitary

With plastic material, operators don't have to deal with grease and other lubricants. Also, it causes less waste to manufacture plastics as they are produced by flowing plastic in a mold. Meanwhile, metals require material removal to get a specific machined part, creating more waste.

Plastic Packaging Machinery Parts Application

Slideways packaging equipment components are ideal for high-speed, high-reliability, high-wear processing lines and applications, such as

  • Pick-and-place
  • Labeling
  • Loading and unloading
  • Marking and printing
  • Scribing
  • High-speed registration

Packaging equipment and components from Slideways are used worldwide in a variety of industries and applications, such as bottling and canning, commercial food packaging, pharmaceuticals, and general distribution centers, where corner tracks, wear strips, chain guides, chute liners, and other high-impact packaging equipment components take a beating day in and day out.

If we don’t have the right packaging equipment components to meet your specific requirements, our experienced engineers will work closely with you to develop the ideal plastic component solution for your needs.

To learn more about packaging equipment components and our many other premium plastic components, or to get a quote on quality components for your material handling system, contact us or visit http://www.slideways.com.

Topics: components, plastic, packaging, conveyor systems, equipment

Slideways, Inc.

Written by Slideways, Inc.

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