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Belting Combines Ease of Change With Hygienic Design

Intralox’s new ZeroSplice technology gives food processors a way to connect ThermoDrive belting sections without field splicing.

Intralox ZeroSplice ThermoDrive
Intralox's Hauke Bayer displays the new ZeroSplice technology at IPPE in Atlanta.
Aaron Hand

Intralox developed modular plastic belting more than 50 years ago. When the company introduced its ThermoDrive belting more than 15 years ago, it was with a view to providing a more sanitary, food-safe conveying solution—without the harborage points found in the connections between modular belt sections. But the flip side of that continuous belt technology is that maintenance required more effort. If any part of it becomes damaged, a large splicer is required to replace the section—an often cumbersome, expensive proposition.

“If I have a long conveyor or a high conveyor, I cannot take the belt off, so I need to cut it open, I need to take it off, I need to put it on, and I need to splice it with a big machine,” explains Hauke Bayer, ThermoDrive product specialist at Intralox. “That whole process takes roughly two hours. You need to bring the equipment in the production plant, preheat it.”

In many cases, particularly in the U.S., the food producer doesn’t even own splicing equipment, so depends on a third party to come in and splice the belts, which requires added cost and time. And the quality of the splice can be inconsistent.

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