Industry News & Blog

  • Eagle SureConnect

    Eagle SureConnect, an important innovation from Fenner Drives, radically reduces the complexity of installing polyurethane belting – slashing downtime and associated labor costs. The Manheim, Pa. company is an international leader in the supply of value-added, problem-solving products for conveying and power transmission applications. Countless industrial and manufacturing processes rely on uninterrupted service from conveyors.…

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  • Factors to Consider in Food Processing Metal Conveyor System Design

    Factors to Consider in Food Processing Metal Conveyor System Design

    The designing of the ideal food processing system is vast because of the complexity and diversity of the food processing industry. Some of the factors that may affect the system design include the qualities of food being processed, the sanitation methods used to prevent the formation of bacteria, the environmental conditions where the foods are…

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  • ProSpare to launch Starclean at Hillhead 2016

    ProSpare to launch Starclean at Hillhead 2016

    A NEW product which tackles the challenges of belt cleaning in a completely different way to traditional belt scrapers has been launched by ProSpare. FE Schulte Strathaus & Co KG have been at the heart of changing the way conveyor belts are cleaned across Europe, but their ground-breaking new system has not been available in…

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  • ABB to automate 13-kilometer long conveyor system at Chilean copper mine

    ABB to automate 13-kilometer long conveyor system at Chilean copper mine

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, won an order from Tenova TAKRAF Chile to automate one of the world’s most powerful conveyor belt systems to be built at Chuquicamata Mine in Chile. The belt system will deliver copper ore from the underground mine directly to the concentrator plant, 13 kilometers away from the…

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  • Different Types of Mechanical Conveyors

    Different Types of Mechanical Conveyors

    The advancing technology has made transportation very easy. Now we use different types of conveyors to transport solids. Below we have made a list of some of the most common mechanical conveyors. Belt This is the most common type of mechanical conveyors. They are very popular in the industry for transporting material and moving parts…

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  • New conveyor system transporting bulk material efficiently from open pit mines

    New conveyor system transporting bulk material efficiently from open pit mines

    Excavators and trucks are conventionally used to transport material extracted from open pit mines. This material removal method, which relies on diesel power, has several disadvantages including high operating costs for fuel, personnel, accommodation, travelling and maintenance; high safety risk created by weather conditions or human factors; and environmental damage caused by carbon and noise…

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  • What goes around, comes around

    What goes around, comes around

    Tucked into the right-hand corner when you first walk into the Burlington Town Center is a sight unlike anything else in the area: a collection of booth-style tables arranged for easy access to the small plates of sushi that pass by on an ever-moving conveyor belt in the center. A Cuisine is an Asian fusion…

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  • Steps to Success

    Many times a day at a busy power plant in Ohio, a barge unloads onto a fast moving belt. The familiar noisiness of a speeding conveyor belt being loaded should be reassuring, but when the load zone is losing material, dust is clouding the impact area and components are covered with escaped product; it is…

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  • WTE Pipe Conveyor System Transports Waste from Wastewater Treatment Plants

    WTE Pipe Conveyor System Transports Waste from Wastewater Treatment Plants

    A Kansas City, Mo., international system supplier for intralogistic solutions is supplying utility companies with its pipe conveyor to transport household and industrial waste as well as sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants to power stations. The conveyor is energy efficient and able to convey waste products through public spaces without affecting the environment because…

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  • New conveyor return idler offers economical solution to control carryback material

    New conveyor return idler offers economical solution to control carryback material

    Carryback material, one of the leading causes of extraordinary conveyor maintenance, can now be removed economically from the conveyor belt with a new solution from Superior Industries, Inc., a major U.S.-based manufacturer and global supplier of bulk material processing and handling systems. The new solution from Superior Industries, the Urathon Beater Roll removes carryback material…

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  • Conveyor System Maintenance Tips to Keep the Belts Running

    Conveyor System Maintenance Tips to Keep the Belts Running

    Lots of companies these days are trying to cut down on their expenses because of the present situation of the economy. They are faced with the hard task of keeping an old conveyor system up and running well when ordinarily it should be heading to the garbage. Unlike wine, mechanical equipment does not get better…

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  • Martin Engineering boasts specialised conveyor belt cleaners

    Martin Engineering boasts specialised conveyor belt cleaners

    Martin Engineering boasts a family of specialty belt cleaners designed to address challenging applications, from viscous food manufacturing to hot slag. Developed in response to customer input, Martin Engineering conducted extensive research at its Center for Innovation (CFI) facility in Illinois in the USA to find conveyor solutions to carryback, belt health, spillage and pulley/idler…

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