The wood and building material industries produce plywood, chipboard and MDF sheeting. First, chips or fibres are mixed with a binder or resin. Then, this mixture undergoes prepressing before passing onto the final press, where finished panels are manufactured. Prepress belts are used in the prepress unit. As a part of our one-stop belt shop, Ammeraal Beltech offers both a unique seamless belt and a synthetic spliceable belt for this application.
Whether it’s a spliceable aramid re-enforced Ropanyl belt or a seamless AmPress belt, our industry-proven belts deliver excellent pressure resistance, and they also meet all other operating requirements necessary for the forming process.
AmPress seamless belts
- Truly endless construction, eliminating any risk of splice failure
- Uniformly coated, seamless and flexible, with anti-static properties to prevent static charge build-up
- Wear-resistant polyurethane (PUR), extremely resistant to wood pulp, for longer belt life
- Easy-to-track, stable belt run
- Good resistance to bonding materials, oils, fats, sulphur, ozone and kerosene
- Available in two surface finishes: closed, or with holes for air release
Ropanyl prepress belts
- Made of aramid fabric for maximum compression resistance and reliable distribution of compression
- High force/elongation value
- Good abrasion resistance and a homogeneous belt surface
- Excellent anti-static properties; no build-up of electrostatic charge
- Very good chemical resistance
- Strong splice, made with Ammeraal Beltech’s unique Maestro equipment