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  • Which Industries uses Conveyors and the Benefits It Provides

    Conveyor systems are being used by industries to move their product efficiently. These industries that use conveyors to move their goods include automotive, agricultural, computer, electronic, food processing, aerospace, pharmaceutical, chemical, bottling and canning, print finishing and packaging. Though most companies do use the conveyor system to move their products, the most common are food…

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  • Take a look inside Murf, Taranaki’s new $3.9 million recycling plant

    Take a look inside Murf, Taranaki’s new $3.9 million recycling plant

    A lot of trash has been spoken about the Taranaki’s new roadside rubbish collection system, but the region’s $3.9 million recycling plant kicked into gear without so much as a whisper. Reporter Taryn Utiger went for a look inside. The men and women who sort through the region’s recycling look tough, like they are built…

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  • Tensioning System for Primary Belt Cleaners

    Tensioning System for Primary Belt Cleaners

    ASGCO’s new and improved E-Z Torque tensioning system now comes with an integrated blade wear indicator. The new patented indicator shows the amount of wear on the blade and indicates when its time to replace it. The E-Z Torque tensioner is made of 304 stainless steel and allows for automatic adjusting of the blade tension…

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  • What is an Electric Track Vehicle System?

    Electric track vehicle system or ETV is a type of a conveyor system that is used by companies or manufacturers to transport their goods, this type of conveyor system uses vehicles which are independently driven to travel in a monorail track. This monorail track is especially designed with straight track elements, bends, curves and transfer-units…

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  • New conveyor belts launched for the textile industry

    New conveyor belts launched for the textile industry

    Rydell is the exclusive Australian agent for Ammeraal Beltech that provides innovative belting solutions for the textile industry. Ammeraal Beltech’s comprehensive range of belts includes process and conveyor belts; high performance flat belts; modular belts; endless woven belts; timing belts; and engineered belts. All the product groups come with appropriate tools and local service support…

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  • Heavy-Duty Conveyor Belt Cleaners

    Heavy-Duty Conveyor Belt Cleaners

    This family of primary conveyor belt cleaners has been engineered for the fastest, most heavily-loaded belts, with industrial-strength construction that delivers effective cleaning, minimal maintenance, and long service life, even under punishing conditions. Martin SHD cleaners have been proven on belts up to 10 ft wide with speeds as high as 2000 ft/min, carrying loads…

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  • What is a Lineshaft Roller Conveyor?

    What is a Lineshaft Roller Conveyor?

    A lineshaft roller conveyor is the most versatile and cost effective conveyor available in material handling. This kind of conveyor is a light duty powered roller conveyor that transport light material ranging from 15kg to 20 kg in weight, these are cardboard boxes or plastic boxes and small goods, though medium and heavy materials can…

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  • Sempertrans to offer product range to Australian market

    Sempertrans has announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Australia’s ConvaTech. The exclusive sales and distribution agreement for Sempertrans conveyor belts for the Australian market has been signed in Newcastle, Australia. Thomas Fahnemann, Semperit’s CEO and Peter Slattery, ConvaTech’s Chairman expressed excitement about their new business partnership, combining Sempertrans’ first tier conveyor belt technology and extensive…

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  • Conveyor Systems – Proper Care and Maintenance

    Conveyor Systems – Proper Care and Maintenance

    To be able to move the products or heavy equipment in a company, the conveyor system plays a vital role. However, for the conveyor system to last longer, proper care and maintenance should be done, and choosing the right conveyor type, system design and paying attention to the regular maintenance is a must. Below are…

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  • Petra Diamonds’ C-CUT Phase 1 expansion breathes new life into Cullinan South Africa’s

    Petra Diamonds’ C-CUT Phase 1 expansion breathes new life into Cullinan South Africa’s

    Production ore tip feeding via the ore crusher onto the production conveyor belt. It is designed for LHD trucks to tip from three different directions and is installed with two Atlas Copco RB600 rock-breakers to size the material. The two rock breakers are operated by one operator from a centralised control cabin. This design is…

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  • Machinery: Only the elite take gold at the Agritechnica trade exhibition

    Machinery: Only the elite take gold at the Agritechnica trade exhibition

    This year’s show was held in the Hanover exhibition centre in Germany last week, and featured numerous innovations in every kind of farm machine you can think of. No fewer than 311 innovations were registered with show organisers, the DLG (the German Agricultural Society), ahead of the fair. During the show an independent panel of…

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  • DiamondCorp commissions underground conveyor belt system at Lace mine in South Africa

    DiamondCorp commissions underground conveyor belt system at Lace mine in South Africa

    DiamondCorp has installed and commissioned an underground conveyor belt system at the Lace mine located 200km south-west of Johannesburg, South Africa. The capacity of the 400t/h conveyor belt has been sized at double the existing front-end capacity of the processing plant, in order to increase underground mining in the future. DiamondCorp CEO Paul Loudon said:…

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