Belt Engineering

Fabric belts can be cut in length and width and delivered open or endless. Habasit offers several proven joining techniques, like Quickmelt, Flexproof, Stepflex or Thermofix, to make your belt endless, and longitudinal joining to overcome width manufacturing limitations.

For applications where you need to assemble the belt after installing the conveyor, mechanical fasteners are an ideal solution. These include stainless steel fasteners for general applications and plastic fasteners in the food industry, where you use metal detectors or magnetic conveyors on the line.

Fabric belts are available with a number of accessories, such as profiles, cleats, and sidewalls, to support any application needs. Longitudinal profiles improve the belt tracking, while flight profiles and cleats provide product separation and support transportation on incline or decline lines. Sidewalls and scoops help to contain bulk products and secure product movement in steep applications. The precise, high-quality fabrication process results in exact and perfectly hygienic welding, especially crucial for food industry applications.

Sealing the edges of fabric belts prevents fraying and removes the risk of fiber contamination of products, machines, or bearings. This edge treatment, frequently used in food processing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and wet applications, improves hygiene, cleanability, and belt life.

Rounded edges are ideal for belts during the hand-over of goods in distribution systems, particularly for paper applications.

Markings on conveyor belts support product positioning and identification in food and non-food applications. Offering high visibility and contrast and high wear resistance, we can customize any printing on the belt for individual needs. Habasit’s high-quality process ensures that food contact certification is maintained for food belts with laser markings.

Habasit offers all its thermoplastic timing belts with a welded Habasit Flexproof joint as standard. We can also supply HabaSYNC timing belts with an open, pre-prepared Habasit Flexproof joint for on-site assembly. This enables faster belt assembly directly on the application with minimum effort.

Replacing timing belts can be very time-consuming, especially in the case of multi-line systems or difficult-to-reach belts. Mechanical joining methods make this job fast and easy. Pin joints are flexible, safe, and reliable as precision holes in the teeth form a sturdy guide for the connecting pins and guarantee a safe and reliable joint. The minimum deflection diameter specified by the belt is unaffected by the pin joint. Choose between A 5, 8, or 11 connecting pins.

Many synchronous conveying applications require frequent replacement of timing belts. Habasit developed the HabaSYNC mechanical hinge joint to make the process quick and easy. The hinge joint design is an excellent choice for both single belts or multiple belts aligned side by side.

To meet the most demanding application needs, you can choose from a vast selection of different covers and surface structures for HabaSYNC timing belts. The extensive cover range allows allows you to design with a broad scope of mechanical, physical, and chemical properties to fit your exact application needs.

To help track the belt or assist in conveying and product placement, we can add V-guides and other longitudinal profiles to HabaSYNC timing belts. We offer a variety of notched and unnotched options in different sizes to meet your application requirements.

The Habasit false teeth system allows you to attach profiles that cannot be welded to polyurethane timing belts due to their size or material characteristics, or when you require a more robust cleat attachment. The false teeth system forms a high-strength, detachable profile connection.  The profile fastens with screws to a false tooth inserted into the teeth after the individual teeth are have been machined.