Andrew Akers commutes a long way each day from Pennsylvania to Hanover not just because he enjoys his mechanical engineering job at Intralox, a conveyor belt maker, but because he appreciates the self ...

If it can be said that conveyor belts have defining qualities, perhaps their most defining is that they move in one direction. Well, not all conveyor belts. This omnidirectional conveyor belt is built ...

Electric ball-screw actuator controls rollers on a “smart” conveyor, replacing less flexible pneumatic actuators. Engineers at Intralox L.C.C, Harahan, La., used electric actuators to improve the ...