Specialists in material handling equipment for product
packaged in plastic pails and containers

PAILmate, Corp. specializes in solving the unique material handling problems associated with the processing of product contained in plastic pails and containers. We design, engineer, and manufacture a cost-justifiable line of equipment for every function that will get your product into a pail and onto a pallet for shipping.

Experience : We’ve got lots and we want to share it with you ! At PAILmate, Corp. we have been striving to find unique solutions for our customers for over 30 years. Our background is custom designing material handling systems and we apply our material handling philosophy to our pail handling equipment. This puts us in a unique position to provide useful information – not just about our own equipment – but about how it will fit and work within your existing line. We’ll tell you everything you need to know and even some things you didn’t think you wanted to know ! It’s been our experience that a knowledgeable customer is a happy customer. So, ask us anything.

Cost-Justification : If it isn’t cost-justifiable, you probably aren’t going to buy it. Pretty simple. So, we design our equipment to be easily cost-justifiable, and we always design to offer as much ‘bang for your buck’ as possible. Our equipment is heavy duty construction, easily maintained, and always designed with flexibility in mind. We make all our equipment with the option of being mobile, adjustable for more than one size of pail, or lid, and we make the elevation adjustable, in case you replace your 5-foot tall operator with a 6-foot tall operator. We also provide our equipment in both stainless steel/washdown, and painted mild steel construction. We try to cover every eventuality !

The First PAILmate and How We Ended up Majoring in Pail Handling : The short version is that we used to be a custom design-engineering firm. In 1975 we were asked to build a machine to put the lids on pails that were filled with edible oil. This particular company wanted to eliminate the manual operation of hammering the lids on, due to the large Worker’s Compensation claim that had resulted. (Even today, this is surprisingly still a common story). We built the very first PAILmate that year. It didn’t take long to realize that pail handling was predominantly a labor intensive, manual operation, and therefore non-competitive for smaller producers and processors. As time passed, we have added complementary equipment so that we are now in a position to provide filling, lid dispensing, lid closing, wash tunnels, conveyors, and palletizing equipment. Customers will find us to be a single source supplier for their total pail handling line requirements... or use our products as a 'building block' opportunity to improve their existing facilities or implement their own line.

How We Can Help You : PAILmate Corp. is dedicated to constantly developing and upgrading our equipment to be the very best in it's category. Thorough research & development have led us to expand our product line. If you have a unique application, ask us about it – we will try to find a way to accommodate your requirements, or come up with an alternative solution.

• Lid Closing machines (stainless or mild steel) for plastic pails and containers.
• Automatic Lid Dispenser, which is uniquely reliable and fully adjustable to handle several sizes of lids. It attaches to the front end of the PAILmate Lid Closer.
"L'il Capper" .... designed to straddle an existing conveyor line. It is an ideal solution where a full size Lid Closer cannot be accommodated, but where the functionality of a full size Lid Closer is required.
• We also have an all-in-one Filling and Lid Closing Machine.
• Filling Machines, Fully Automated System, and Accumulation Conveyors.
• Drum Fillers.
• Our products provide not only increased efficiency, faster workflow and lower labor content... an average payback period of approximately 16 weeks makes them a highly cost-justifiable investment for any company !