Business View Magazine | January 2020

52 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 S implimatic Automation provides conveyor systems, robotics, and custom factory automation to a variety of manufacturing, assembly, and packaging operations worldwide. Simplimatic Automation has been a trusted name in material handling systems since 1965, beginning as a company with a concentration on conveyors for the beverage industry, and subsequently expanding to include other areas of packaging and assembly. Simplimatic is a recognized leader in material handling systems and automation for the semiconductor, electronics, packaging, assembly, pharmaceutical, medical device, optical, automotive, and many other industries. Simplimatic manufactures tabletop conveyor, mat top conveyor, edge belt conveyor, beverage conveyor, twin-strand conveyor, and integrates a variety of other conveyor types dependent on customer need or preference. The company is also an award- winning robotic integrator and actively integrates multi-axis, collaborative, gantry-mounted, and mobile robots (or AGV’S) from Fanuc, and many other robotic manufacturers, into a variety of factory environments. Now owned by Simplimatic Engineering Holdings, LLC, a business development and private equity firm, Simplimatic Automation is a privately held company with worldwide capabilities stemming from a 60,000-square-foot manufacturing headquarters built in 2015, its 50th anniversary, in Forest, Virginia. As brand recognition and product awareness continued to grow for Simplimatic, so did sales of personal computers throughout the mid-to-late 1980’s. Under new ownership, Simplimatic launched its first line of SMT conveyor and board handling equipment AT A GLANCE SIMPLIMATIC AUTOMATION WHAT: A provider of conveyor systems, robotics, and custom factory automation WHERE: Forest, Virginia WEBSITE: www.simplimatic.com ation