Sanitary, Washdown & Food-Grade Conveyors
Built for Your Line
Sanitary belt conveyors, 24V MDR conveyors, and washdown pallet conveyors, engineered for your line and built for your washdown. Every frame TIG-welded, every surface mirror-polished, every system designed to move your product — not slow you down.
Three Families. Ten System Types.
Every sanitary conveyor we build shares the same construction DNA — welded stainless frames, mirror polish, aggressive drainage, and tool-less maintenance access. Start with the family that moves your product: belt for trays, pouches, and cartons; MDR for cases and totes with zone control; pallet for end of line.
Sanitary Belt Conveyors
Food grade belt conveyors for washdown environments — from point-A-to-point-B transport to freezer-rated arctic systems and steep elevation changes. The widest range of sanitary applications, on TIG-welded stainless frames with FDA belting.
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MDR Conveyors — 24V Motorized Roller
Washdown-rated motorized drive roller conveyors for cases, trays, and totes. Each zone runs its own 24V roller, so product queues without contact, only active zones draw power, and traffic control lives in the conveyor instead of a PLC rack — from zero-pressure accumulation to multi-line merging and SKU-based sorting.
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Pallet Conveyors
Stainless pallet conveyors for end-of-line food and dairy lines — roller and chain-driven pallet conveyance, zero-pressure pallet accumulation, automated dispensing, and stretch-wrapper, strapper, and robotic palletizer integration, built for the heaviest loads on the line in full washdown environments.
Explore Pallet conveyors →What are you conveying?
Hover over the product and the conveyor types that carry it appear alongside — each one opens its page.
- TraysMAP trays, clamshells, thermoformed packs
- Pouchesflow-wrapped, vacuum, stand-up pouches
- Cartonsfolding cartons, chipboard, sleeves
- Bottlesbottles, jars, cans, tubs
- Bulk productloose pieces, granules, frozen product
- Casesshipping cases, shrink packs, bundles
- Totes & binsreusable totes, crates, combos
- Palletsloaded pallets, bulk containers
- BeltFlat-Top Belt Conveyors→Smooth surface keeps trays flat and oriented between machines.
- BeltModular Belt Conveyors→Side-flexing modules carry trays through curves; perforated modules drain.
- BeltRadius, S-Curve & 180° Belt Conveyors→Turn the line without a transfer that catches a tray edge.
- MDRAccumulation Conveyors→Buffer trays on belt accumulation ahead of the packer.
Sanitary Conveyance That's Actually Sanitary
Most “sanitary” conveyors are standard industrial hardware with a stainless steel skin. AQS builds conveyors differently — from the welds up.
Every frame joint is welded — not bolted. Bolted joints create crevices that trap bacteria and resist cleaning. Welded joints eliminate the problem entirely.
Not just stainless — mirror finish. Polished surfaces are faster to clean, easier to inspect, and leave nowhere for contaminants to hide.
Water shedding geometry is built into every frame. Aggressive drainage angles reduce sanitation time by up to 50%.
Quick-release belt lifters, snap-in guide rails, and removable components. Sanitation crews clean faster. Maintenance turns around faster.
Every system is designed around your specific product, line layout, and sanitary requirements. You get exactly what your line needs.
Designed to plug into VeriPak SCADA, IntelliPak feed systems, and AQS robotic palletizing cells. One controls platform, one support relationship.
Why AQS builds its own conveyors, and what the purchased ones got wrong: read the white paper, We Bought Them First →
Built Different. On Purpose.
Continuous TIG welds instead of bolted joints. Mirror-polished stainless instead of painted steel. Sloped geometry that drains water in seconds — not minutes. Sanitary is the baseline.
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Recent Conveyor Projects
Real-world sanitary conveyor systems designed, built, and installed by AQS.
State-of-the-art sanitary conveyor systems for transporting hot extruded marshmallow through a freezer tunnel. Full washdown construction rated for extreme temperature cycling.
Advanced EQ70 accumulation conveyor installed at a major dairy production facility. Designed for active product accumulation with enhanced operational efficiency and stringent sanitation standards.
Size It Yourself
The free calculators our engineers use to size conveyors — belt pull, speed, throughput, and drive selection. No login; your inputs stay in your browser.
Free belt pull calculator for modular plastic belt conveyors: straight, incline, L, Z, radius and S paths, startup pull, belt check, and drum motor pick.
Free conveyor speed calculator: belt speed in ft/min from packages per minute, product length and gap, or solve for rate or gap. Gap time and transit time.
Free conveyor throughput calculator: lb/hr, lb/day or kg/hr to packages per minute, belt speed, and belt load in lb/ft, plus bulk bed sizing.
Free MDR motorized drive roller selection chart: torque, belt pull and RPM per OneMotion series at your roller length, and the smallest series that fits.
Free incline conveyor calculator: solve length, rise, and angle for straight, incline, L and Z conveyors, with plain-belt limits and cleat advice.
Free UHMW wearstrip span calculator: support spacing and end overhang from point-load deflection, washdown temperature knockdown, and creep check.
Where It Fits in the Line
See how this solution integrates into real production line configurations. Explore AQS products in this line.
One line, several conveyor jobs: belt conveyors for transport between process stages, 24V MDR for zero-pressure case accumulation, stainless chain for full pallet weight. AQS builds the whole path, so every segment shares the same welded, washdown construction and the same controls.
Common Questions
Tell us about your line
Send us the product, the rate, the room it runs in, and how it gets washed down. An AQS engineer comes back with a layout sketch and a budgetary range — no catalog, no sales script.
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