ContiTech launches integrated conveyor belt service at expanded Brazil plant

Ponta Grossa, Brazil – ContiTech AG has officially completed an expansion project at its conveyor belt production facility in Ponta Grossa, the German manufacturer has announced.

The company held a two-day event earlier this month to mark the expansion and to launch its new extended service initiative ‘total conveyance’.

The 7,000 sq.m conveyor belt plant expansion is designed to ‘double, or even triple’ capacity in the coming years, helping ContiTech improve competitiveness in the region.

It includes production lines featuring “advanced new rubber mixing, rubber blanket calendering, vulcanisation, and inspection technologies,” said the company 15 May.

Operational since last September, the expansion enables the facility to now produce belts rated up to ST10000, which ContiTech says are considered “the world’s strongest belt rating made to withstand extreme conditions.”

Meanwhile, the company’s ‘total conveyance’ initiative will provide customers with an integrated approach that combines products, services and digital technologies.

It represents an “end-to-end material handling solution”, which ContiTech said delivers “a full ecosystem of technologies, components, and expertise to support modern material transport needs.”

The service will support material handling across mining, agriculture, construction and logistics.

Together with the expansion, ContiTech expects the initiative to enable “faster and more responsive service” to its customers in the region.

“We are delivering on our ‘in the region and for the region’ approach, allowing us to shorten product shipping timelines and better meet the needs of our customers in South America,” said Andreas Gerstenberger, CEO of ContiTech USA.