Portfolio Category: Material Handling

Overhead crane system installed by Adaptec Solutions for Thruway Stone’s fabrication process.

Adaptec Integrates Overhead Crane Systems to Power Thruway Stone’s Fabrication Process

Customer Background & Problem Thruway Stone, a custom countertop fabrication and installation company in Farmington, NY, handles large granite and quartz slabs sourced from around the world. These heavy, oversized materials required precise positioning during fabrication to protect both employees and high-value automation equipment. When building their new facility, Thruway Stone needed an overhead crane […]

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Modern freight elevator with glass walls in an industrial building.

Global Cane Sugar Company Replaces 100+ Year-Old Freight Elevator with PFlow VRC

Project Demographics Buffalo, NY Industrial History ASR Group’s Buffalo, NY manufacturing plant sits in the heart of Buffalo’s industrial history. According to Steve Cichon in Buffalo Stories, New York Central first laid railroad tracks on Buffalo’s east side right along Bailey Avenue. Cichon writes, “The trees cleared from [William Bailey’s] property became the timber backbone […]

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Fall arrest system installed on industrial storage tank for worker safety.

Food Ingredient Logistics Company Improves Ergonomics and Safety with Fall Arrest System

Project Demographics Location New York  Vertical Material Handling  Application Custom Fall Arrest System (FAS) Industry Food Ingredients Distribution Customer Problem Adaptec’s customer, a food ingredient procurement and processing company, faced a critical safety concern in their operations. Their tanker trucks, instrumental in the transportation of food products, relied on an outdoor filling station. Workers were required […]

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Modern warehouse storage racks in a large medical supply warehouse.

Adaptec Becomes Partner of Choice for Medical Warehouse Expansion Project

Customer Problem A nation-leading academic medical center began a multi-year expansion project that included renovating a regional hospital. To ensure uninterrupted hospital operations, an offsite warehouse was established to receive non-emergency materials from vendors, sort them by facility, and subsequently ship them to the hospital. In addition to supporting the expansion project, the facility took […]

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Industrial manufacturing setup with cranes and machinery at Adaptec Solutions.

Siewert Equipment Optimizes New Facility with Four Gorbel Crane Installations

Customer Problem As part of a relocation project to a newer and larger service center, Siewert Equipment was looking to optimize shop flow and functionality. As a distributor and service provider of pumps, process equipment, mixers, blowers, and valves for manufacturers in industrial, commercial, and municipal water markets, a new crane system was designed to […]

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