No DramaBuyer guide · Material handling
A pallet conveyor has to carry the pallets you really receive, broken boards, overhanging film and all, not the clean one in the test hall, and most of its cost and most of its stoppages sit in the transfers, lifts and stops, not the straight runs.
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Roller sections carry a pallet with its bottom boards running in the direction of travel. Turned sideways, the boards lie parallel to the rollers and can drop between them, which is why chain sections carry pallets across. Ask which way each section runs your pallet.
Chain transfers, pop-up roller transfers, turntables and vertical lifts cost more than straight runs and do most of the work. Count them on the quote against your layout.
Rated load per pallet and per metre, roller diameter, wall thickness and pitch. A heavy pallet concentrated on few rollers bends them.
One drive per section or a line shaft, with stops and sensors so pallets queue without pushing. Ask how many zones the quote assumes.
Forklift loading stations, pallet centring guides, fences and light curtains at open ends. Guarding is often left for the buyer.
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Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.
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| Require this | A pass looks like |
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| Run your own damaged and overhanging pallets through a transfer and a turn at the quoted rate. | No pallet jams, drops a board between rollers or needs pushing by hand. |
| Queue pallets against a stop, then release them one at a time. | Pallets queue without touching, and each release moves exactly one. |
| Break a light curtain at an open forklift station while the line runs. | Motion in that zone stops and needs a reset to restart. |
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A pallet truck or a single AGV robot, cheaper than a fixed line and no obstacle on the floor.
A roller conveyor system with zero-pressure zones, sized for the lighter load.
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We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.
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Every machine we source in this area is on the Material handling page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.
Straight answers
Roller wall thickness, chain grade, drive brands, the number of transfers and lifts, and the guarding included. Straight runs are close in price; transfers and guarding are not.
Roller straightness and pitch, chain tension, stop and sensor function, guards and light curtains, and a run with your worst pallets.
EN 619 covers equipment for mechanical handling of unit loads. Ask whether the design follows it.
The company placing the conveyor on the EU market, often the buyer. It checks the declaration and adds its name and address.
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