Conveyors & Material Handling
Aluminum extrusions for conveyor and material-handling builders — profiles that keep your line flowing for the life of the product.
Conveyor and material-handling systems run on aluminum extrusion. The profile is the machine's skeleton — the part your customers never see but always depend on.
How aluminum extrusion is used in conveyors
Extruded aluminum profiles form the structural frame that carries the belt, rollers, drive, and sensors, plus the guide rails and side walls that keep product tracking straight down the line. Because the cross-section is engineered into the die, one profile can build in mounting slots, bearing seats, and wireways that would otherwise be machined on or bolted up later.
Builders reach for aluminum over welded steel for practical reasons: a high strength-to-weight ratio keeps long frames rigid without the mass, the metal resists moisture, washdown, and chemicals common on packaging and food lines, and extruded profiles bolt together rather than weld — so a line goes up, and gets reconfigured, far faster.
- Conveyor frame rails and side frames
- Guide rails and product supports
- Structural framing and crossmembers
- Custom profiles to your design
- We keep your specified profile flowing — reliable repeat-spec supply
- Single-source: extrusion, machining, fabrication, finishing
- Small runs welcome — 300 lb minimum
Most conveyor work runs in 6000-series alloys — 6063 for clean, anodize-friendly surfaces, 6061 where the frame carries more load — usually clear-anodized for appearance and corrosion resistance. AES machines the slots, holes, and cut lengths your design calls for and finishes the profile so it arrives ready to assemble. Then we keep that exact specified profile flowing for the life of the product, which is what matters when you're reordering the same frame for years.