History:

Automotion first opened its doors in 1967 as a distributor of conveyors and conveyor accessories.  It did not take long to realize that we could provide far greater service to our customers if we could also control the manufacturing aspects of the conveyor equipment that we were supplying.  Automotion understood the value of providing service in every facet from design and production to installation, training and ongoing factory trained technical support.  Simply stated, Automotion was providing Value Added Service long before it became a buzz word in the industrial world.

In 1970 Automotion became a manufacturer of Conveyor Equipment.  Initially,  Automotion focused on the hard goods distribution industry.   Over the next ten years we steadily diversified from this market into others including Bulk Mail and Catalog Distribution, Apparel Distribution, Medical and Pharmaceutical Supply Distribution and  Liquor and Beverage Distribution.

We attribute our success to our ability to listen to the needs of our customers and constantly re-evaluate and improve upon the conveyor products and services we provide in an attempt to satiate these needs.

From our humble beginnings in 1967 we have grown to be one of the top manufacturers of conveyor in the country.  We now occupy our third built-to-suit facility in Oak Lawn, IL.  Our production and engineering facility is over 140,000 square feet and houses our modern offices and state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. We have an adjacent 35,000 square feet building that houses our Technology Center that has all our equipment on display in an operating system for presentation and customer product testing.

We are proud of our track record, our innovative breakthroughs in conveyor technologies and the reputation we have earned serving the needs of the materials handling industry.