The company also sells a robotics assembly that packages black and white toner cartridges. The system is semi-automatic because it still requires an operator. Lastly, Schneider makes the cloth and plastic conveyer belts for Goring Kerr Metal Detection Systems of Toronto, Canada. The system is used to detect metal as small as 1 millimeter in such products as Freihofer baked goods, plastics, pantyhose, and air bags. The company is one of only about 10 in the U.S. that produces these types of custom-made machines, Schneider said.
Many companies prefer to mass produce one type of machine and then try to sell it.
But for Schneider, mass producing the same machine would take away all the fun and creativity of the process. It s the difference not the sameness in each Schneider machine that makes it special. And it s that specialty that s led to such success for the past 29 years. An interest in machine design led to an engineering degree from Syracuse University. For 12 years, he worked with the late Arthur Schroeder and they produced one type of machine.