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Custom Equipment Solutions

Prefabricated solutions not cutting it? Wondering if you can afford custom installation? At Cherry's, custom industrial equipment installations are completely within reach. We can set up a new solution no matter how odd or unique your needs are — and we can do it quickly, too. These installations can help you find significant improvements across many factors, like efficiency, quality and costs. Custom equipment solutions are an excellent choice for any company looking for a high-quality, tailored and efficient approach to new equipment acquisition.

What Is a Custom Solution?

Our custom equipment solutions can include a vast range of industrial machinery and structures designed or modified to fit the precise needs of your facility. The benefits of custom industrial solutions are wide-reaching and include:

  • Greater efficiency. With precise solutions designed to support your specific workflow, you can ensure a more efficient facility.
  • Excellent return on investment. Often, custom equipment will pay for itself in no time through efficiency and productivity improvements.
  • Reduced labor costs. With greater efficiency, you can minimize how long it takes for workers to get the job done and keep labor costs down. Safety improvements can also help avoid injuries and costly workers' compensation claims.
  • Better quality. Whatever you're producing, having the perfect equipment can ensure high-quality results.
  • Longer equipment life spans. If you have to use a machine for tasks it wasn't designed for, you can easily reduce its expected life span. Custom equipment is specifically built for the job, so you can extend how long your machinery lasts and lower the costs associated with maintenance, repairs and early replacement.

Find the Perfect Piece of Equipment

At Cherry's Industrial Equipment, we believe that this one-size-fits-all approach is not the best way to serve our customers. Instead, we give you the opportunity to customize many of the material handling products we offer for sale. We can improve your workflow by custom-engineering new or existing products and automation to fit your unique needs. You’ve known us as a company that sells a wide variety of products, but Cherry’s is first and foremost an engineering company that solves workflow problems.

Off-the-shelf products might be quick and convenient, but they're not always going to match the needs of your facility completely. Custom solutions do. We build these entirely to the requirements of your operation to give you greater confidence in your purchase.

Affordable, Fast Results

With some providers, custom solutions can seem like a pipe dream with exorbitant costs and long turnaround times. With Cherry's, that's far from the truth. Our custom equipment solutions don't cost much more than prefabricated solutions, making them an affordable approach to new equipment. We're also fast, offering expert installation in about eight to 10 weeks. Whatever it is your facility needs, our team can get it in place quickly and affordably.

Turnkey Solutions

We aim to make acquisition simple for you — that's why we offer turnkey services. We'll take care of:

  • Project initialization and engineering. We'll gain an in-depth understanding of your needs, produce drawings, and provide estimates and engineering.
  • Installation. Our skilled technicians can set up custom equipment precisely to the needs of your facility.
  • Risk assessment. Let us analyze the situation and minimize risk during and after the project's implementation.
  • Project management. We can take care of every step of project management, leaving you to focus on what you do best. We'll keep you informed throughout the process.
  • Training. We'll also make sure employees are ready to operate the equipment safely and efficiently.

Our turnkey solutions take the stress of a custom build-off of your business. Our focus is on minimizing complexity for a straightforward, speedy experience.

Reach out to Cherry's Industrial Equipment to Learn More

If you're ready to experience the benefits of custom equipment, the experts at Cherry's are standing by to help. To start talking custom equipment solutions with one of our pros, give us a call at 800-350-0011 or contact us online.

Nestle - Willy Wonka Drum Dumper

Nestle, known for its Willy Wonka brand, sought to replace aging dumpers in its Illinois factory, but the original manufacturer was no longer producing them. Having successfully collaborated with Cherry’s Industrial Equipment before, Nestle approached them to design a custom stainless steel drum dumper, resulting in a product that met their specific needs, leading to customer satisfaction and potential future purchases.

 
Drum Dumper

P&G - Customization to meet a safety specification

The customer for this system required a build that met specifications for the highest level of risk and safety assessment. Safety features included: high style guarding, safety mats, and separation of high and low voltage in a UL508a certified panel. A stainless steel lined basket with adjustable leveling plate are also included in the system design. This customer sent a team to the production facility with an extensive VAT protocol. This inspection included yellow lining drawings, verifying every electrical connection and testing safety circuits. The customer had the various product loads shipped to the Cherry’s Industrial facility, and each load was tested with the proper pressure settings. Machine operators also were on site to train in the machine operation. With a designated FAT space at Cherry’s Industrial, customers that require this level of inspection are allowed to review the system and complete the inspection process in a safe environment.

Pallet Tipper to eliminate stretching and reaching

Cherry’s Industrial is approached by a customer asking for a solution to a problem. Their production staff is using ladders to stack boxes on a pallet the height necessary. This presented an ergonomic and safety hazard for the customer. After discussions with the Cherry’s Industrial team, the decision is to design a tipper that will allow the load to be built on the machine in the horizontal position. After the load is built, the entire load is stood up to complete the palletizing process. The tipper solves the ergonomic and safety hazard and improves the production process for the customer. Cherry’s tippers are custom designed to handle the specific loads and needs of each customer.

Smithfield - Safe handling of nested containers with 90⁰ tipper

Re-usable plastic containers are part of a returnable program moving ingredients between production facilities and managed by CHEP within a container pool. The empty nested containers arrive at the kill plant in 8’ high stacks which is ideal for shipping but creates a problem for use. With the use of Cherry’s Industrial pallet tipper, the customer tips the stacks on its side and un-nests the containers. The empty containers move into production where they are filled with meat trimming or whole muscle and then shipped to the further processing plant. At the processing plant, the containers are emptied and then the tipper is used to re-stack the containers and returned to the CHEP pool for cleaning. CHEP pooling centers utilize the tipper both to stack and de-stack so they can wash the container and re-stack them for shipment for the cycle to repeat. With the addition of a Cherry’s Industrial pallet tippers, the employees can safely handle the containers from ground level, the warehouse space is optimized, and the warehouse operates in an efficient manner.

JBS - Combo Transfer system for plastic pallets

Standard inverters work in a wide variety of applications, but corrugated combo’s represents a unique problem with transferring product from wood to plastic pallets. Load transfer systems or forklift mounted push pull packs would tear the box, and standard 180° standard inverters would cause the box to collapse. All of the methods lead to load degradation and contamination issues. With the development of the combo transfer machine, Cherry’s Industrial created a machine that has a moving side clamp that would cradle the combo so the customer could quickly change from wood to a plastic pallet without losing any load or tearing the box. The combo inverters are ground level for easy use with a motorized pallet truck, and custom built specifically for the dimensions of the customer’s combo. Typically built with stainless steel baskets, fittings, and wash-down capabilities, these machines are built for the rugged meat production environment.

Shamrock Foods - Inline PSR System for changing out pallets

The customer reached out to Cherry’s Industrial asking for advice on how they could best speed up their production process. In changing out the pallets, the customer previously used a stand-alone pallet retriever. The pallet would be loaded with an electric pallet truck, rotated and then bad pallet is replaced. Cherry’s Industrial recommends, designs and builds a specialized pallet retriever that is designed to accept loaded pallets via powered conveyors onto a gravity fed conveyor in the machine. The pallet retriever rotates, the pallet is changed, and then the load is picked up by the forklift. This improved, cost effective change to the production process allows the customer the efficiency savings they are looking for.

Cherry's Industrial Equipment Corp. BBB Business Review MHI Member Company International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses The Great Game of Business All-Star 

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