Conveyor systems

Efficient conveyor systems: Custom solutions for seamless material flow in production

Hormes’ high-quality conveyor systems ensure smooth, efficient material flow between machines in your production process. Whether pallets, packaging, containers or caps – our systems convey your materials carefully and efficiently. We provide customised solutions to meet diverse requirements, from conveying plastic bottles, returnable bottles, six-packs, cardboard boxes and plastic crates. Our modular components are tailored precisely to your specific needs. Even in limited spaces, our experienced layout designers will find the perfect solution to optimise your production processes. Rely on our expertise in planning and optimising conveyor systems.

Container conveyors

Hormes’ container conveyors are based on an intelligent modular design that meets almost all requirements. This flexible system is ideal for conveying a wide range of containers, such as glass bottles, PET bottles and cans, between different processing units. Special components like buffer sections, pressure-free separators, outfeed tables for mass conveying, diverters and distribution units perform specific tasks to interlink seamlessly with your production line.

Your benefits at a glance:

  • Robust and hygienic construction
  • High availability of spare parts thanks to standardised components
  • Easy operation due to a high level of automation
  • High energy efficiency through an intelligent control system and efficient drives

Pack conveyors

Hormes’ pack conveyor system is the ideal solution for seamlessly linking your machines into a perfectly coordinated production unit. Our intelligent modular system covers almost all pack conveying requirements. Different types of packaging (including returnable crates, cartons, trays, shrink packs, six-packs and cluster packs) are conveyed safely and carefully between processing stations. Special components such as outfeed tables, incline conveyors, diverters, distribution units and accumulation sections optimise the entire production flow.

Your benefits at a glance:

  • Robust and hygienic construction
  • High spare parts availability thanks to standardised components
  • High level of automation ensures easy handling
  • High energy efficiency through an intelligent control system

Pallet conveyors

Hormes’ pallet conveyors stand out for their exceptional durability and robustness, particularly in empty container handling. They ensure the careful conveying of pallets from loading to palletising and unloading. Whether returnable pallets, empty pallets or fully loaded pallets – our system is flexibly tailored to your requirements. Special components such as turntables, corner transfers, rotary corner transfers, pallet magazines and pallet inspection units optimise production flow and ensure smooth operations. Thanks to intelligent control system technology, each pallet is delivered just in time to the right position.

Your benefits at a glance:

  • Robust and durable construction
  • High spare parts availability thanks to standardised components
  • High level of automation ensures easy handling
  • High energy efficiency through an intelligent control system

Cap conveyors

Hormes offers a comprehensive solution for conveyor and storage technology to ensure your capping machines are consistently supplied with caps. Be it crown caps, screw caps, natural corks, ring-pull caps or champagne corks, our technology guarantees smooth, efficient operations. In addition to standalone systems, we provide complete, complex solutions capable of supplying multiple lines from a central cap storage facility. For efficient cap storage, Hormes offers automated frames for Octabin containers or mesh boxes, while automated cap containers are used for cartons.

Your benefits at a glance:

  • Flexibly expandable system
  • High level of automation for maximum efficiency
  • Seamless integration into your production line
  • Robust, low-maintenance design

Container scales

Hormes offers high-quality container scales for reliable weight control of various containers. Our industrial container scales operate in a continuous weighing process, ensuring precise weight verification. If the predefined weight limits are exceeded or not met, the affected container is automatically removed via an ejection system, such as a pusher. Thanks to intuitive control and operation based on standard components, the container scale can be seamlessly integrated into existing production processes.

Advantages of our container scales:

  • Robust design for industrial applications
  • Efficient weighing in a continuous process
  • Integration of ejection systems for automatic sorting
  • Use of standard components for easy maintenance and parts replacement

Custom designs

Not every task can be solved with a standard solution. Custom designs are essential particularly in confined spaces or when dealing with complex container structures. Our experienced technicians and engineers take an individual approach to your specific requirements. In close collaboration with you, we will develop a customised solution that fits seamlessly into your process. Our production and automation department then expertly implements the solution.

Advantages of customised solutions:

  • Achieve the best possible results with solutions tailored to your specific needs
  • Work closely with our experts throughout the entire project phase
  • Benefit from our experienced technicians and engineers with extensive expertise
  • Use preferred components to meet specific requirements

Crate tippers

Hormes offers reliable crate tippers for reusable beverage crates in various designs. These tippers are ideal for use before and after a crate washer, helping to enhance efficiency in the filling line. On request, crate tippers can be equipped with a dirt discharge system that collects and directs dirt residues into a waste container during the tipping process. For extensive crate programmes, Hormes provides adjustable crate tippers to ensure optimal handling, regardless of crate size.

Advantages of our crate tippers:

  • Sturdy and durable construction for long-term use
  • Customisable to local contexts and customer requirements
  • Efficient processing of nearly all reusable crates
  • Perfectly suited for use before and after a crate washer

Automation and control system

Even the best mechanical systems are only as good as their control technology. Hormes provides custom automation solutions for complete conveyor systems, ensuring seamless integration of individual machines such as fillers, packers, cleaning systems and palletisers. By enabling targeted signal exchange between the machines, conveyor speeds are automatically adjusted to maintain the ideal fill level on the container and packaging buffers. Operation is easy and convenient via one or more large control displays.

Advantages of our automation solutions:

  • Seamless integration of your machines for a smooth production process
  • Convenient, intuitive operation via large displays
  • Maximum utilisation of buffer sections
  • Energy-efficient control system with modern drive technologies

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