Benda Manufacturing
Tinley Park, Illinois conveyor and product-handling builder; Benda Conveyor Solutions acquired Benda Manufacturing's assets in 2022 and serves food lines.
Benda Conveyor Solutions (Benda Inc.) designs and manufactures conveyors and product handling and processing systems for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, packaging and industrial manufacturers. Based at 8402 W. 183rd Street in Tinley Park, Illinois, it was formed in 2022 through an asset purchase of Benda Manufacturing and continues that company's conveyor business. The company is part of Iroquois Industrial Group, LLC, and Big Shoulders Capital, LLC.
The conveyor line covers homogeneous and fabric belt, metal belt, modular plastic (straight, incline and curved) and powered roller designs, including the S900, S1400 and S2400 sanitary conveyors, a portable sanitary conveyor, the Zero Tangent modular plastic curve and the Z Flow incline conveyor. For bakeries and snack lines it builds baking pan accumulators, basket stackers and unstackers and servo-driven handling systems, and it integrates metal detectors, X-ray inspection and checkweighers into lines. Engineering services include control systems and robotic system engineering, with Universal Robots, Rockwell Automation, WEG and Safari Belting Systems listed as partners.
Markets served are baking, dairy, snack, meat and poultry and fruit and vegetable processing, plus contract packaging (the company is a member of the Contract Packaging Association), pharmaceutical and general industrial manufacturing.
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