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Product Characteristics and Conveyors

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One of the single biggest influences on conveyor design is the product being conveyed. In this post we’ve broken down the top five product characteristics to keep in mind when selecting a conveyor type.

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What Are Timing Belt Conveyors?

Timing Belt Conveyor

Timing belt conveyors are used to precisely transport product and can help provide positive accurate product location, they are used for light and dainty parts as well as heavy and bulky parts.

Physically speaking timing belt conveyors consist of at least one timing (toothed) pulley and at least one idler pulley (often another toothed pulled) with the timing belt looping around them.

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What Are Engineered Solutions for Conveyors?

What are “engineered solutions”? And how do they apply to conveyors? Just as it sounds it is a conveyor specifically engineered to solve a problem.

But aren’t all conveyors engineered? Yes and no. Continue reading to learn more.

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A Word from Sales: Critical Spare Parts

By Gene Shaw, Sales and Business Development Manager, North America

What are Critical Spare Parts?

I call them "Down Time Insurance Components".parts and repair wheels

Let's keep this simple, all production or manufacturing plants are different so when your equipment is not running, no one can predict the financial loss any better than you can.

All I can say is whether you are gold mining or making yogurt, when the production comes to a halt you are losing money for every second, minute, hour, or day you are not running.

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