Product category:
Conveyor systems (production and general purpose)
News Release from: Flexco (Flexible Steel Lacing Company) | Subject: Splicing And Conveyor Solutions
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 July 2002
Brochure details conveyor improvement
products
A 16-page color brochure summarizes a continually expanding line of products for improving and maintaining belt conveyor systems, and helps prospective users save time in seeking products.
A 16-page color brochure offered by Flexco, titled 'Splicing And Conveyor Solutions', summarizes the company's continually expanding line of products for improving and maintaining belt conveyor systems, and helps prospective users save time sorting through and selecting from available alternatives The brochure begins by introducing readers to the worldwide resource of Flexco's website and other ways to obtain detailed product catalogs tailored to specific applications
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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