April 2024 Blog

Welcome to the second edition of What’s Happening At Wecon Systems “WHAWS” newsletter for 2024. Spring is in the air! With the official arrival of the Spring season we are seeing longer daylight hours and warmer temperatures. Baseball is back and it is playoff season for Hockey.

We remain grateful to our customers for your continued belief and support in our team to make your material handling requirements a reality. To our partners and suppliers; we know that the struggle is ongoing with supply chain issues and delays. Your continued communications and transparency with our team have allowed Wecon to schedule projects accordingly; providing realistic deadlines and real time updates to our customers. You can continue to check on our web page www.weconsystems.com to keep updated on how we are navigating the current situations in our industry today.

Autostore

AutoStore™, founded in 1996, is a technology company that develops orderfulfillment solutions to help businesses achieve efficiency gains within the storage and retrieval of goods. The company offers both hardware and software capabilities and the AutoStore technology is interoperable with other third-party solutions.

Wecon is now proud to announce that they have recently received the factory training that qualifies us to be an authorized AutoStore Installer.

Did you know that Wecon has been manufacturing our own line of Gravity Flexible Conveyor right here in Canada! We offer both steel and plastic skate wheel models as well as 1.4 and now 1.9 steel roller models. These units now come with new options such as box stops, impact sections, axle restrictors(for smaller packages) an in-line couplers that will allow you to make these long enough to load or off load and entire 60 foot trailer.

Ongoing & Completed Projects

• Our 3PL clients are continuing to show growth and are keeping us bust with changes and enhancements to existing equipment as well as adding to new facilities

• We have just been awarded with a contract to replace some aging equipment in a large GTA distribution center for a very large retail outlet

• A well known denim company was so satisfied with some emergency service we provided that they have asked us to provide them with an on-going maintenance package

• One of our large automation partners have given us the go ahead to provide them with a pallet handling system that they will integrate into a robotic picking system

• A well known apparel retailer has just ordered the second set of replacement spiral belt conveyors, they were so satisfied with phase 1, awarding phase 2 was an easy decision

• This same retailer has also asked us to upgrade their existing conveyor equipment with some new Motor Driven Roller conveyor

• A well known office supply house has awarded us with the opportunity to provide them with a new picking line in Quebec

• We have recently been awarded a very large mechanical installation contract in Quebec, we expect to be on that project for many months

• Our reseller network has been extremely busy especially in Quebec

• One of our American integrator partners has again reached out for modifications to an existing system here in Ontario

• We have just renewed a preventative maintenance contract for the sixth straight year

• Our maintenance teams continue to be very active promoting our WECARE program with more and more customers recognizing the value of keeping their equipment in good working order. For direct contact feel free to contact Bob Norcross directly at bnorcross@weconsystems.com

• Our used equipment has been very active with one of the recent purchasers stating that they could not believe this is used equipment

We still maintain a large assortment of good quality used equipment available for sale at tremendous savings. Included in this used equipment inventory is a significant amount of used 24″ nominal width line shaft and 30″ nominal width slider bed conveyors. This used equipment is refurbished, providing the customer with a product comparable to new at a fraction of the cost. As well as cost savings, another benefit to incorporating used equipment into your projects is time savings. Most of this used equipment can be supplied much quicker than new due to the ongoing supply-chain delays. An example of this quicker turn around on used equipment is a recently completed project that consisted of used line shaft equipment that we had on hand and that we were able to supply and deliver to our customer on the East Coast within a 6 week timeline. Please contact any of our sales professionals for details regarding availability of used equipment, as well as types and sizes.

If you have any conveyor or material handling inquiries, please give any of our experienced and qualified installation, service or sales staff a call. They will be happy to assist and help answer any of your questions. No matter the size or nature of the project you may be considering, our specialists will ensure all phases of the job are covered. They can be reached at Wecon Systems by calling (905) 624-6499 or alternately via email through: info@weconsystems.com , service@weconsystems.com or sales@weconsystems.com.