In recent years, more and more plastic chain conveyor systems are favored by customers in the global manufacturing industry. Chain conveyors are highly flexible, especially plastic chain conveyors, and are popular in light industrial environments as well as in food processing environments, such as food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, and small personal care products. Plastic chain conveyors offer many benefits that make them more suitable than other conveyor types for these industries.
What is the plastic chain conveyor system?
Plastic chain conveyor is a kind of industrial equipment, used to transport goods or products on the track. A plastic chain system uses a plastic chain that holds objects on a conveyor belt, while the system itself is driven by a motor and usually has one or more pulleys or gears. The gear will push the gear at the bottom of the chain to push the whole chain system forward, so that the entire transport process to form a continuous ring. The plastic chain conveyor belt is composed of plastic parts, which allows bending, makes the track more flexible, and can meet the needs of the whole conveying system moving in various directions.
What are the benefits of plastic chain conveyor system?
Flexibility
Due to the low coefficient of friction of the plastic chain, the plastic chain conveying system can not only walk in a straight line, but also bend horizontally, tilt vertically/descend and even spiral curve in long-distance transportation, to meet the needs of manufacturers for a higher and more flexible conveying system.
Modular Design
The modular design allows the plastic chain conveyor system to be easily modified without the need for welding, by simply adding various accessories, removal and reinstallation to fit the workshop space and equipment space, even in a workshop with limited space, can be done through this coordination to achieve the normal operation of the conveyor system.
Low cost of maintenance
Compared with the belt conveyor system, the plastic chain conveyor system is much less expensive to maintain and use. First of all, it doesn’t need to be repaired like the belt conveyor system, the plastic chain conveyor system can solve the transportation problem of the whole conveyor system only by replacing the relevant modules. In addition, for the consumer goods industry, the damage of products and packaging has always been the main factor affecting its development, but the plastic chain conveyor system is very gentle with products and packaging, it can reduce the risk of damage to ensure its maximum production quality, for enterprises to reduce costs.
Easy to clean and disinfect
The structure of plastic chain conveyors makes them easier to clean and more hygienic, especially in the food, beverage, personal care products and pharmaceutical industries, to avoid the risk of a whole products being recalled because of a little bit of contamination.
Better Belt Tracking
The design principle of plastic chain conveyor is to use sprocket instead of pulley, which avoids the occurrence and treatment of belt tracking problem. The product can keep its integrity and position in the whole system, and is easy to maintain and simplify installation, eliminates the worry of constantly checking the product.
Plastic chain conveyor systems will play an increasingly important role in the future development of industries, especially in light industry and food processing industries, we expect our plastic chain conveyor to serve every customer all over the world and promote the rapid development of the conveyor industry.
