Forbo Movement Systems showcased its latest product developments at Shanghaitex 2013. Its new printing blankets ensure top printing quality and the enhanced web-laying belts optimise the way the product lies. New power transmission belts set standards, offering energy-efficiency and longer product lives.
For Forbo Siegling, the belting specialist, printing quality is of paramount importance. Which is why the company has developed two new printing blankets that set standards in rotary, flat-bed and digital printing. They have polyester tension members and produce even more accurate printing results.
The Print 6646-2.15E is single-ply and has a low-noise underside. This characteristic is particularly important for high speed operation during flat-bed printing. Because of the typical start-stop process during flat-bed printing, belts without enhanced undersides frequently cause irritating noise. With its special fabric design and low surface weight, the belt is also kind to key elements of the machine, such as the magnetic bar cover. It also ensures longer service lives and cuts energy and maintenance costs as a result.
The two-ply PRINT 6736-2.65E was developed for rotary printers based on this innovative high-tech fabric design. In this case, advantages such as reliable, low-noise belt tracking also really bear fruit. PRINT 6736-2.65E combines robustness with extreme repeat accuracy. The belt’s thickness and pitch line precision mean that it is easy to retrofit on existing rotary printers.
Web-laying belts without wrinkle forming
Web-laying belts have key functions to fulfil in the manufacture of needle felts. Forbo Siegling is facing up to this challenge and introduced two new web-laying belts at ITMA. With its low-friction coating, the NP 6553 glides even more easily and gently through the non-woven fabric. The look of the product when processing the finest of fibres shows a significant improvement. The belt is highly conductive and therefore functions perfectly without any electro-static build-up. In relation to the belt’s weight, it is also very laterally stiff. This considerably reduces the risk of creases forming.
The second innovation in the manufacture of non-wovens is the extremely light, two-ply web-laying belt NP 6711 with a low-drag, finely patterned belt surface. The lightweight design ensures especially quiet tracking, particularly when the widths laid are wide. Good release properties are another excellent feature. The result: the machinery can be operated even faster and more effectively and wears out much slower.
The new generation of particularly lightweight, modular heating presses complements the range of Forbo Siegling innovations for nonwoven production.
Longer lives for components in yarn manufacture
Since their launch, power transmission and tangential belts of the Siegling Extremultus A and E lines have proved to be very efficient and durable. The belts have thermoplastic aramide and polyester tension members. Forbo Siegling engineers gave them a tougher black coating and stronger tension members. This combination ensures longer service lives and produces better internal stability of the belts. The consistent friction coefficient in tangential belts also produces more consistent spindle revolutions. The tangential belts have particularly strong edges, and they operate extremely reliably. The result: even after a long usage period, the quality of the yarn stays at a constantly high level.
Forbo Siegling’s new rotor belts for OE machines are new benchmarks in rotary power transmission technology. The tangential belts, calibrated on both sides, have highly abrasion-resistant coatings that ensure consistent friction coefficients over their entire service lives. The Siegling Extremultus rotor belts also have a thickness tolerance of just 0.02 mm. Consequently, there is less stress on sensitive components like rotor bearings, and better yarn quality with fewer piecings is guaranteed. The rotor belt can be supplied up to 150 metres in length.
Extensive service, the world over
Forbo Siegling strives to provide extensive service facilities. In order to ensure the extreme precision of its power transmission and conveyor belts, the company offers its customers on-site endless splicing. The variety of belts offered requires reliable splicing methods that the company has developed, based on its long-standing expertise. It offers its service in many countries via local companies and service points.
Forbo Movement Systems (previously called Siegling) employs more than 1,800 people globally in eight production sites and 25 international companies. Forbo conveyor and power transmission belts are used in nearly all industries, as also in the retail and services sectors. Key competencies are the food and packaging industries, logistics and airports, as well as paper, print and raw materials industries.
The company was founded in 1919 in Hanover. Since 1994 the company belongs to the Swiss firm Forbo International. The products have been marketed since 2007 under the master brand “Forbo Movement Systems”.