Company Profile
From fully-automated conveyor systems to simple gravity-fed solutions, Airfloat designs and manufactures,
Custom Conveyors
conveyors for your industrial needs.
Custom Conveyors
Airfloat's comprehensive engineering staff designs custom side-by-side, over-under and in-line conveyor systems that feed your manufacturing lines.
With our expertise in turntables and lift systems, the combination and integration of system-wide solutions are routine for Airfloat, whether air-powered or electric-powered.
Airfloat was founded in 1967 with a focus on providing engineering solutions through air bearings technologies. The original air bearing development took place at GM by an engineering group that experimented with the friction-free results of movement with air. The original use, which remains a very prominent use, was to move heavy loads within plant operations. When GM developed a loss of focus on the mass-market appeal of the air bearings, a GM engineer by the name of David Snoeyenbos secured the rights to the technology and started Airfloat in Decatur, Illinois.
Today Airfloat continues to operate and manufacture air bearing and material handling solutions at the Decatur corporate facility. Sales are both domestic and international, with additional sales offices located in Cleveland, OH, Detroit, MI, and Indianapolis, IN.
To enhance manufacturing organization and focus, solutions are supported through AutoCad, Pro-Engineering and Solid Works capabilities. Of the 55 employees, twelve are engineers.
A Track Record of Industry Leadership
As the innovator of air bearing technology, Airfloat provides over 40 years of industry experience. Our innovative custom solutions are focused on improving your efficiency, automation, ergonomics and productivity.
With the development, design and manufacturing all handled in our facility, there is substantial system synergy to meet your exact needs.
Engineers are available to work with you early in your planning stages. The result lets us develop lean and responsive solutions.
Vision & Focus
Today’s processing environment is all about accomplishing the highest degree of efficiencies, or lean manufacturing. Airfloat answers this growing need with a full line of standard and custom engineered air-equipped products. Movement becomes faster, less expensive, and more proficient by using our air bearing solutions. Ergonomic solutions become seamless with our lift table technologies and our conveyor systems to enhance efficiencies throughout your entire production line.
The Airfloat philosophy is to work together as a team to effectively implement the best solution, on the best schedule, at the best price. This Q3 philosophy drives Airfloat to perform our best through quality employees, quality products and quality customers.
This way of thinking has made Airfloat the proven leader in supplying innovative material handling solutions to a diverse range of industries such as automotive, aerospace, heavy construction, heavy electrical, mobile-home, pharmaceutical and food. |
About Company
What Airfloat Does: Mastering Material Movement
Airfloat applies air bearing technology and innovative design to move and position anything from a 200-ton locomotive to placing a pallet or basket of parts at the ergonomically-correct position along your assembly line. Airfloat solves problems in your workspace with devices that increase your efficiency with easier, faster, and safer material movement.
Airfloat air bearing applications are more productive because of the proven six-step process shown at the left:
Customer Relationships enable Airfloat's staff to see opportunities for improved material movement by bringing Airfloat's 40 years' of air bearing problem-solving experience to your plant floor.
Applications Development approaches your material handling challenge to find the optimum solution, either standard or custom-built, to maximize the efficiency and safety of your operation.
Custom Air Bearing Solutions use air bearings to solve your parts and product movement challenge whether it's as big as a 400,000-pound transformer or positioning several different mufflers at an automotive assembly line workstation, so the correct one is always at hand.
Full Service Engineering means complete single-source responsibility for your air bearing productivity improvement project, including safety and ergonomic evaluation and ensuring a solution that fits your plant floor and facilities.
In-House Manufacturing in our 65,000-square-foot facility provides ISO 9001-2000 quality to your project from concept to design through final air bearing product ready for your factory floor.
Field Support Services assure you ongoing support for Airfloat air bearing solutions that help you Master Material Movement.
Look over Airfloat air bearing Products for productivity-increasing ideas for your plant. |
