Rubber by Urethane Aramid Cord Flat Belt on Live Roller
The original equipment mechanically fastened belts at a retail chain were lasting four to five weeks before having to be re-laced due to stretch; in addition, the facility’s maintenance staff spent hours each week addressing belt tracking concerns which led to belts coming out of the track and getting damaged, which led to more down time for replacement.
The belt to be tested was a rubber by polyurethane flat belt with urethane-encapsulated aramid cord tension members, vulcanized endless via finger-splice.
Two years after the initial replacement installation took place, the rubber by urethane aramid cord flat belts that were installed were still running, the original vulcanized splices intact.
Over two years’ service life vs. the five weeks realized with the OEM belts. After the retail giant reported the improved performance of the replacement belts, the equipment manufacturer within seven months named a new default source for their live roller belts based on this information.
Rubber by Urethane Aramid Cord Flat Belt on Narrow Belt Sorter
A distributor client had a customer operating a several-million-square-foot DC who needed a more reliable belt for their Narrow Belt Sorter conveyors manufactured by a well-known OEM.
The belt supplied by the OEM was a urethane material and was spliced with mechanical fasteners. Average service life was eight weeks with belt failures caused by tracking off (due to elongation) the guide channels leading to mechanical splice failures and ripped belts.
The replacement belt was a rubber by polyurethane flat belt with urethane-encapsulated aramid cord tension members, vulcanized endless via finger-splice.
A team installed sixteen 300+ ft. long belts on two different sortation conveyors. One year later, all sixteen belts were still running, and the user began a wholesale conversion to the new belt.
Elastic Type Belt on Gappers, BOR, SBOR
The regional distribution center for a large snack food manufacturer in the Midwest reached out when the belts supplied on their systems began to fail en masse.
Five elastic series conveyor belts were installed four years ago. Over the course of the following nine months, 3,000 belts – primarily Gappers, “Belt on Roller” (BOR) and Segmented Belt on Roller (SBOR) – were installed on the conveyors in this massive DC.
Four years later, the belts were still running and, as a result of their success, the other DCs of this company were expected to also convert.
Today, there are hundreds of thousands of BOR, SBOR and Gapper belts in use in distribution centers throughout North America. The staggering after-market sales opportunity for this segment of the Logistics industry is very real. Success with Global OEMs has been a result of an extensive R&D commitment and outstanding engineering expertise in the manufacture and application of new leading-edge products.
