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Industrial Automation for the Medical and Pharmaceutical Industries

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Industrial Automation for the Medical and Pharmaceutical Industries

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It’s in Our DNA

Our PureSteel® metal conveyor belts play a significant role in medical and pharmaceutical manufacturing, offering superior precision control, hygiene and customization options.

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Our metal belts are:

  • Sanitary
  • Easy to clean
  • Resistant to corrosion
  • Strong
  • Virtually non-stretchable
  • Fully customizable

Download our free infographic to learn more about the benefits, applications and specs that make our PureSteel® metal conveyor belts the ideal solution for medical and pharmaceutical applications.

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Conveyors with Steel Belts as the Transport Medium

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The mk Technology Group is one of the world’s leading suppliers of modular conveyor technology. Recently, one of the group’s customers needed a timing belt that could withstand temperatures exceeding 100 °C and chemically aggressive vapors. Belt Technologies provided a PureSteel® solution that could excel in these extreme conditions and allow for synchronization between three individual timing belts across a conveyor.

Learn more in mk Technology Group’s case study.

Förderbänder mit Stahlgurten als Transportmedium

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Die mk Technology Group ist einer der weltweit führenden Anbieter modularer Fördertechnik. Kürzlich benötigte ein Kunde des Konzerns ein Taktband, welches Temperaturen von über 100 °C und chemisch aggressiven Dämpfen standhält. Belt Technologies lieferte eine PureSteel®-Lösung, die sich unter diesen extremen Bedingungen auszeichnet und die Synchronisierung zwischen drei einzelnen Taktbändern in einer Fördereinheit ermöglicht.

Erfahren Sie mehr in der Fallstudie der mk Technology Group.

Precise Prints Produced by Metal Belts

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Belt Technologies PureSteel® cylinders provide custom solution for healthcare product producer

When a producer of healthcare and personal care products was tired of sloppy, inconsistent results from their traditional embossing and silicone printing processes, they sought a steadier, more reliable and cost-effective solution. Belt Technologies was able to create a custom solution for their problem, creating a relationship set to last for years to come.

The Problem

The customer was struggling with their current printing process, which pushed silicone through a grown nickel screen using a scraper blade to create intricate printed patterns such as chevrons and waves. They also used a traditional embossing process using a complex, loom woven belt made from PET fibers.

Unfortunately, the screens had thin walls with sharp burrs around the perforation pattern, affecting the silicone print medium and negatively impacting the final product’s print quality and adhesion. The screens typically only lasted one to two months, resulting in costly turnover, and their embossing process resulted in a weakened end product. The customer wanted a new solution that used a thicker, more robust material and offered cost saving benefits. That’s when custom cylinder belts and pulleys from Belt Technologies came into play to create a new conveyor.

The Solution

The customer reached out to Belt to find out how we could improve their current printing process and eliminate the need for embossing. A custom version of our perforated cylinders and pulleys was the perfect fit to solve the issues with bonding and print clarity.

“We have a wide range of stock products, but creating custom solutions is really where we shine,” said Brian Harbison, managing director of Belt Technologies. “For this project, we knew our PureSteel® material would make the process more precise and the pattern clearer. We were able to double the thickness and create more height, which allowed for the intricate patterns to be created by thousands of perforated holes.”

Along with increased thickness and more accurate patterns, Belt was also able to add a Teflon coating to help ensure the silicone does not stick to the cylinder.

“Turning a flat piece of metal into a perfect disk is a difficult task,” continued Harbison. “We tried numerous flat welds before we found the right formula to create the current products, and it works extremely well.”

The Result

With double the thickness, an anti-stick coating and a more accurate hole pattern, the customer was able to improve their process while also making it more cost effective, eliminating the need to emboss products, instead turning to solely using the silicone solution. This has allowed them to open up production in new markets. Belt Technologies continues to work with this customer to develop additional solutions for other production challenges. Our goal is to help them radically change the way they run their production process so they can achieve larger production matches, shorter printing times and reduced production costs.

The Company: A well-known producer of healthcare and personal care products including toilet paper and adult diapers.

The Problem: A printing process that was expensive, inaccurate, not customizable and had sub-optimal adhesion.

The Solution: A thicker, higher, anti-stick, and more accurate cylindrical screen for silicone printing that could be customized to any design.

The Result: A cost effective, improved printing process with increased precision and adhesion, allowing the client to open up production in new markets.

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Lasercomb

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CMS – CUTTING MILLING SYSTEM

  • Combination device for cutting and milling
  • Sample production and small series
  • Simplest user interface
  • Particularly stable due to one-piece substructure
  • Highly efficient, even in a one-man operation

Lasercomb has decades of know-how and unique expert knowledge. For over 45 years, they have been developing innovative cutting and milling systems, and always rely on PureSteel® stainless steel belts from Belt Technologies to
drive their cutting units.

Whether paper, corrugated board, carbon fabric, acrylic or aluminum plates, there is hardly a material for which CMS does not have an outstanding solution. The use of PureSteel® steel belts allows the CMS to work extremely precisely
and with very tight tolerances. PureSteel® belts do not stretch like chain or fabric belts, and have a very high strength-to-weight ratio, which is why they are ideal for guiding along the X and Y axes.

PureSteel® steel strips allow the various cutting elements to run very smoothly, which further increases the reliability of the CMS. The PureSteel® steel belts also run quietly, and thus contribute to a better working environment.

The CMS can handle almost any cutting and milling task. Lasercomb’s engineers have equipped the CMS with everything necessary for consistent, excellent performance in many different application areas.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT:

  • Ease of use
  • High precision
  • Low-maintenance operation due to the use of high-performance PureSteel® steel belts
  • Flexible and customizable

LET’S SCHEDULE A TIME TO TALK ABOUT HOW PURESTEEL® BELTS
FROM BELT TECHNOLOGIES CAN HELP YOUR BUSINESS. REACH OUT TO US AT
BELTTECHNOLOGIES.COM/CONTACT

Lasercomb


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Improve Your Productivity in 2021

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Picture of Belt Technologies stainless steel belt to accompany blog to improve your productivity in 2021The new year is finally here, have you made a New Year’s resolution yet? We’re not talking about slimming down or getting to the gym, we’re talking about your business. It’s the perfect time to improve your productivity in 2021, and our line of stainless steel belts, conveyors and pulleys can help you achieve that goal.

Identify the Issues

More productive equipment means more profit, so it’s important to identify any issues you may want to make as soon as possible. Some common improvements include:

  • Using equipment you can trust
  • Reducing cleaning/maintenance time
  • Trimming your “waste”

Switching to our stainless steel products is a solution that can help you fix all these issues—they’re more durable, more precise, and more sanitary than other options.

How Will Our Stainless Steel Belts Help?

Durable: Belt Technologies, Inc. has been producing metal conveyor belts, timing belts, and pulleys for more than five decades. We provide equipment with a proven track record of durability. Metal belts:

  • Can withstand extreme temperatures
  • Resist chemicals, humidity and corrosion
  • Require no lubrication which reduces maintenance

Precise: Metal belts are virtually nonstretchable when compared to other belt types. Because of this, they are ideal for situations of precision positioning.

Sanitary: Unlike flat neoprene belts, metal belts don’t release particles into the air, making them optimal for food and pharmaceutical processing. They cut out the “waste” released into the air, and unlike neoprene belts, they can be sterilized in an autoclave.

Now is the Best Time to Upgrade

Our metal belts have been trusted in a wide variety of industries for more than 50 years, including:

It doesn’t matter what field you’re in, the new year is the perfect time to consider upgrading your systems to improve your productivity in 2021. Contact the experts at Belt Technologies for more information on how we can help.