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Indexing conveyors give line operators a break

Modular conveyors give this injection molding company a useful time cushion that improves labor usage efficiencies and reduces packaging line downtime.

Indexing conveyors accurately deliver component part counts and weights per box at an adjustable pace.
Indexing conveyors accurately deliver component part counts and weights per box at an adjustable pace.

Lindal North America, Columbus, IN, specializes in the production of valves, actuators, spray caps, and overcaps for a range of consumer products. At its Columbus plant, Lindal manufactures closure parts on multiple presses. Lindal uses Spex molding equipment from Engel.


The company had been dropping prepared parts into boxes via chutes on the molding machines. The 15” x 14” x 23” corrugated boxes are supplied by Columbus Container Inc.


As Lindal molding engineer Jay Bray explains, “We were manually changing boxes as they were filled and had to do a weigh-check on each box, using a variety of check weighing machines. If we didn’t manually move a box off the line fast enough, parts would back up into the chute and the drop zone. Production got clogged, resulting in downtime.”

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