During this global crisis, it’s important to recognize the stories of success in the fight against COVID-19. The pandemic has led to growth in the manufacturing sector in many forms. New facilities, changes to production processes, and increased demand for various products are supporting the economy, the supply chain, and the job market. This is… Read more »
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We Are In This Together
Now more than ever we stand together with the businesses that are essential to the fabric of our communities. As an essential business, Dorner’s capabilities support a variety of critical infrastructure industries including food processing and packaging, pharmaceutical production and fulfillment, medical device and equipment manufacturing, lab testing and rapid prototyping for lab equipment.… Read more »
AquaGard 7350 Series DTools Enhancements
DTools is the central location for all of Dorner’s conveyor productivity applications, including our CAD Library and Product Configurator. Recently, we added the ability to copy and modify AquaGard 7350 Series configurations, even after they’ve been completed! This enhancement brings the follow changes to the AquaGard 7350 Series platform: Lines/ conveyors can be added to… Read more »
Members of Dorner Asia Spend Fun Filled Afternoon with Residents of PKIPPP
Members of Dorner Asia and the residents of the Penang Handicapped Welfare Association recently shared an afternoon full of laughter, lunch, and fun. The intent of the trip was to put a smile on the face of each of the 25 Penang Handicapped Welfare Association residents. Those at Dorner Asia referred to it as… Read more »
Is Your RTE Conveyor Engineered to Overcome Challenges?
Food manufacturers are faced with growing demands for Ready-to–Eat foods and ever-changing consumer tastes. This requires nimble and scalable food production operations, often at off-peak hours to guarantee the freshest RTE product. This is even more challenging when combined with a set of complexities including labor shortages, frequent product change-overs, cross contamination concerns, and food… Read more »
Jacob Gaspari Named Recipient of the 2019 Richard C. Ryan Packaging Education Scholarship
Jacob Gaspari, a student at Columbus Central Community College (Nebraska), has been named recipient of the 2019 Richard C. Ryan Packaging Education Scholarship, funded by Dorner. This $2,000 scholarship is awarded to a student enrolled in a two- or four-year program at any of PMMI’s partner schools. The scholarship was established in honor of… Read more »
Dorner Latin America Shipping Spare Parts and Belts in as Few as 24 Hours!
Dorner Latin America is now shipping standard spare parts and standard belts in stock in as little as 24 hours! The spare belts are able to be shipped quickly thanks to the fully staffed, in-house belting cell. The 92 square meter area is staffed by 6 trained belting personnel and produces all 7 standard Dorner… Read more »
Dorner Maintains ISO 9001:2015 Certification
Dorner has completed its ISO surveillance audit and is pleased to announce its Hartland, Wisconsin location has maintained our ISO 9001:2015 certification as of April 17, 2019. Dorner originally became certified on May 31, 2018. Thank you to Dorner’s Quality Team for their hard work and efforts! ISO 9001:2015 is the latest quality management… Read more »
Dorner Producing Belts In-House Internationally
Dorner’s in-house belting process allows us to build conveyors that operate more efficiently by making belts that perform well and track properly. And we don’t only produce belts in-house in the United States, but internationally as well! Dorner Europe has a 300 square meter belting cell operated by eight fully trained employees. Here, we stock… Read more »
2018 Year in Review
As we look back on our big milestones in 2018, we want to start by saying thank you to all of our customers, channel partners and associates. Working with you was our greatest accomplishment in 2018, and we are looking forward to seeing what we can achieve together in 2019. Some highlights of this… Read more »
Darren McKune Named Regional Sales Manager Covering Southeastern United States
Darren McKune has been named Regional Sales Manager covering Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi for Dorner. In his new role, McKune will be working with distributors, integrators, OEM’s, and end users to grow the company’s industrial and sanitary conveyor business, as well as focusing on the automation markets throughout the four states. McKune brings… Read more »
PACK EXPO 2018 – Booth Preview #2
In the weeks leading up to PACK EXPO International 2018 we’re giving you previews of all the displays you will be able to see in Booth N-4936 this year! If you missed the first preview last week, view it HERE. This week we are introducing the 1100 Series / 2200 Series Loop. This loop… Read more »
Dorner’s Commitment to Continuous Improvement Shown by Becoming ISO 9001:2015 Certified
Dorner has completed the necessary auditing steps and is pleased to announce its Hartland, Wisconsin location is now ISO 9001:2015 certified as of May 31, 2018. ISO 9001:2015 is the latest quality management standard that helps businesses and organizations be more efficient and improve customer satisfaction. This standard is designed to meet the needs… Read more »
Have the Right Parts on Hand and Avoid Costly Conveyor Downtime by Ordering Parts Kits
Ordering critical replacement parts for 2200 Series conveyors is faster and easier than ever before, thanks to new Parts Kits from Dorner. These new Parts Kits help ensure you have the necessary key parts on hand for quick repairs to avoid costly downtime. The new Parts Kits for Dorner’s 2200 Series conveyors come in two… Read more »
Dorner Appoints Two New Regional Sales Managers for Mexico
Ricardo Sanchez and Daniel Hernandez V have been named new Regional Sales Managers covering Mexico for Dorner Latin America. Both Sanchez and Hernandez will be working with distributors and sales channel partners to grow the company’s industrial and sanitary conveyor business throughout the country. Sanchez will be covering South states, as well as portions of… Read more »
Dorner Europe Expands its German Manufacturing Facility to Better Serve Customers Throughout Region
Dorner has completed a major expansion of its facility in Germany, a project that doubles its production space, adds jobs and effectively positions the company to become even more responsive to its customers throughout the region. The expansion now gives Dorner Europe, based in Jülich, Germany, a facility with 2,120 square meters of production space.… Read more »
Dorner Asia Completes Large 2200 Series Conveyor Order
Our Dorner Asia team recently completed a large order of 2200 Series conveyors for a customer in India. The customer is using the conveyors to transport cartons in their manufacturing facility. The project was sold through our channel partner – A.G. Engineers (An AGE Group Company), located in Ghaziabad, India. The order included seven, 8″… Read more »
Dorner Hosts Distributors for Channel Summit 2018
We were honored to host our channel partners during the Dorner Channel Summit last week in Milwaukee, WI. Over 60 business representatives from multiple countries were in attendance. The three day summit featured informational sessions focused on Innovation and Automation as well as a guest speaker and memorable networking events. The distributors also took a… Read more »
FlexMove, Geppert-Band Merge into Dorner, Creating Unifying Brand that Transforms Conveyor Automation
In a move that combines more than 100 years of conveyance expertise, Dorner Holding Company, the parent company of Dorner Mfg. Corp., FlexMove and Geppert-Band GmbH is merging the three entities into one consolidated brand: Dorner. The new Dorner boasts a global workforce of more than 400, and brings a diverse conveyor automation product line… Read more »
Retirement Announcement
After many years of dependable service, we are saying thank you and farewell to Dorner’s 4100 Series and 6200 Series Conveyors as they announce their retirement. Throughout the year’s Dorner’s product line has evolved from a single, low profile metalworking conveyor to a robust line of industrial, sanitary, and automation precision conveyance solutions. We are… Read more »
Dorner Appoints New Director of Inside Sales
Ben McGruder has been appointed Director of Inside Sales for Dorner Mfg. Corp. In his new position with Dorner, McGruder will lead Dorner’s Inside Sales team and oversee all aspects of the company’s customer service initiatives with customers and Dorner’s channel network. McGruder brings more than 14 years of sales experience to Dorner. He was… Read more »
Dorner Enhances 2200 Series Precision Move Pallet Systems with New Capabilities and Addition to Online Configurator
Dorner’s 2200 Series Precision Move Pallet Systems are now available with new features including heavy load corners, tight turn corners, low-profile lift and locates, elevators and more. The new heavy load corner design allows the conveyor to carry pallet loads up to 70 pounds around 90° or 180° corners, effectively providing loop capacity for… Read more »
Dorner’s New Responsive, Multilingual Website Brings Interactive Experience to Global Customers
Dorner’s new website at www.dornerconveyors.com features a professional, responsive design, placing the world of conveyor systems at the fingertips of users on the go. Dorner’s newly revamped website features a more modern, user-friendly interface for better functionality and customer support. Customers will find the site even easier to use and navigate, and the site is… Read more »
PACK EXPO Booth Preview-Part 3
Today we are showing you our new Sanitary Display we will be premiering at PACK EXPO Las Vegas next week. If you missed our previous booth previews you can view them here: Part 1, Part 2. This display features Dorner’s AquaPruf VBT, a sanitary vertical belt conveyor designed for elevating bulk product. The VBT features an open frame and tool-less… Read more »