Three Reasons Why You Should Request Vulcanized Rubber In The Creation Of Your Conveyor System

Most manufacturing and food processing plants like Southeastern Conveyor Services, INC, do not give their conveyor systems a second thought if the conveyor belts are essentially doing what they should be doing. However, smarter plant owners recognize that the details that go into a conveyor belt system really do matter. Here are three reasons why you should give your plant's conveyor belt system a second look and then request vulcanized rubber in the creation of a new system for your plant. 

Vulcanized Rubber Lasts a Very Long Time

This is the type of rubber used on tires, and since most tires are designed to roll along at top speeds for thousands of miles before wearing out, you can imagine what vulcanized rubber does for conveyor belts. Conveyor belts are not expected to operate faster than the very lowest double digits in terms of speed or "miles per hour," and even when you operate them 24/7, they still are not going to run out as fast as other rubber belt systems nor as fast as tires. You can expect a vulcanized rubber conveyor belt to last years, instead of months. 

Vulcanized Rubber Does Not Split or Crack, Regardless of the Weight of Product

What is it your plant uses these systems for? Is it for the conveying of fresh produce in need of washing? Maybe it is for moving boxed products along to shipping? Airports use conveyor systems for their luggage carousels. Vulcanized rubber can be substituted for all of the above, and it will not split or crack under the weight of what it conveys. It does not stretch like most rubbers either, which means that tearing and breaking are out of the question, too. 

Vulcanized Rubber Is Resistant to Most Chemicals

Because of the extra steps taken to make this rubber product harder, tougher, and more durable, it is resistant to most chemicals that might otherwise chemically melt rubber or eat holes in the rubber. If your plant creates and bottles commercial and/or industrial chemicals, and some of those chemicals are rather corrosive in nature, drops of those chemicals on vulcanized rubber are not likely to harm it. If you want to be absolutely certain, ask the mechanical and structural engineers that design your new conveyor system if any product your plant produces could accidentally and permanently harm the vulcanized rubber belts you have requested. The engineers will be able to determine if that will ever be a problem.