Sortation Conveyors

Sortation Conveyor Systems

Sortation is critical in many warehouse and distribution environments, especially operations that require order fulfillment, picking and packing. Before automated conveyors, operations depended strictly on manual labor, resulting in unpredictable production times, packing errors and the need for significant investments in operator training. New conveyor technology is essential to today’s sortation methods because it increases efficiency, reduces manual labor requirements and increases profitability.

Siggins leverages decades of engineering experience with some of the industry’s most advanced technology to offer high-performing, affordable sortation conveyor systems for various warehouse and distribution applications. We partner with Hytrol Conveyor Company — manufacturer of the world’s most comprehensive line of unit-handling equipment — and others to supply an extensive range of conveyor types, including customized systems for your operation.

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Types of Sortation Conveyors We Offer

Sortation conveyors use wheels, belts, sliding shoes and pushers to separate items along production lines, offering much higher accuracy and efficiency levels than manual labor. Siggins specializes in medium and high-speed sortation, with some lines capable of sorting several hundred items per minute. Some examples of our sortation systems include:

• Sliding-shoe sorters: Sliding shoe sorters — also called slat sorters — use shoes between lines of slats to guide the product in its required direction, typically in long, straight lines.
• Narrow-belt sorters: Hytrol’s narrow-belt sorters utilize multiple belts, pop-up rollers and right-angle transfers to accurately move and sort medium-sized products at some of the industry’s fastest speeds.
• Right-angle sortation: Hytrol’s ViperSort conveyors use a pushing mechanism to sort smaller-size items at right angles, including envelopes, blister packs, cylindrical products and other irregularly shaped objects. 
• Belted pivot wheels: These sorters use a series of wheels positioned at each divert station that move separately to push products off the line and guide them into other areas of the system.
• Product gapping: Gapping mechanisms create the required spacing between products to ensure timely scanning and accurate label placement while preventing product collision. 

Sortation Conveyor Benefits

When you partner with Siggins for sortation conveyor systems, you’ll experience benefits like:

• Improved sortation capacity for a vast product range.
• Flexible integration into existing conveyor layouts.
• Lower operating costs compared to manual applications.
• High sorting accuracy.
• Increased workplace safety.
• More efficient use of floor space.
• Less product damage.
• Systems scalable to your production demands.

Advantages of Choosing Siggins for Sortation Conveyor Systems

When you partner with Siggins for conveyor solutions, we can help you develop the optimal system for your application by using an existing design, a combination of conveyor types or a custom build created specifically for your company. Our primary goal is to understand your operation’s unique material transport challenges and establish a long-term partnership by helping you achieve your goals. Our engineers have many years of experience creating conveyor systems and other material-handling solutions across a diverse industry range. 

Since 1946, we have been helping companies reduce labor costs and improve their bottom lines by offering some of the industry’s most affordable, accurate and efficient solutions.

Learn More About Sortation Conveyors From the Experts at Siggins

If you think a sortation conveyor system from Siggins might be a good fit for your operation, let an expert from our team show you more. Connect with us online today to schedule an introductory video conference. 

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