{"id":18245,"date":"2022-05-01T08:28:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T07:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voltabelting.com\/?p=18245"},"modified":"2024-03-10T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T12:08:29","slug":"pickle-incline-to-hydrocooler-before-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voltabelting.com\/de\/case-studies\/pickle-incline-to-hydrocooler-before-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickle Incline to Hydrocooler \u2013 Before &#038; After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pickle Incline to Hydrocooler \u2013 Before &amp; After<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Company:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sliced and whole pickle processing<br \/>\ncompany in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Incline conveyor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Challenge:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The customer used plied belts with glued cleats. Within 6 months, product sticking to the belt and tracking issues caused edge fray and cleat breakage. Stretching and elongation became an issue as well.<br \/>\nAfter 3 years they sought an easy replacement with a better solution.<\/p>\n<p>Additional costs:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Extended sanitation time was needed for cleaning the belt surfaces.<br \/>\n\u2022 Scheduled maintenance time was needed to \u201cshave and stitch\u201d the belt.<\/p>\n<p>Safety concerns:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Fibers from the fraying belt edge and parts from the broken and loose cleat material could potentially contaminate the final product.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution: Volta Homogenous Flat Belt<\/strong><br \/>\nFEMB-ITO50 with RoundFlex\u2122 Lace and ITO-50 textured Cleats<\/p>\n<p>Result = Savings\/Sanitation and Maintenance cost<br \/>\n\u2022 ITO50 texture provides excellent product release improving tracking<br \/>\n\u2022 The homogenous and monolithic characteristics of the belt lowers cleaning and sanitation time, reducing water, chemical and labor consumption compared to previous belts.<br \/>\n\u2022 HF welded flights will not break and contaminate the final product<br \/>\n\u2022 With the homogeneous surface of Volta belt, customer reduces the risks of foreign material leaching from the belt compared to old technologies<br \/>\n\u2022 Having an embedded finish on the contact point of the pulleys increases friction and grip of the belt, minimizing tracking issues due to shock loads during production<\/p>\n<p><strong>Testimonial:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the ITO-50 surface on the belt and the HF Cleats throughput was increased and the release of wet product was improved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the ITO-50 surface on the belt and the HF Cleats throughput was increased and the release of wet product was improved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,90,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","category-vegetables","category-fruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voltabelting.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voltabelting.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voltabelting.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voltabelting.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voltabelting.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.voltabelting.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voltabelting.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voltabelting.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voltabelting.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voltabelting.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}