Continental Automotive India has showcased a variety of high-tech conveyor system, solutions, and services at the 9th International Mining, Equipment, Minerals & Metals Exhibition at Kolkata. The exhibits included ContiPipe conveyor belt with smart Conti MultiProtect monitoring system, Monster Hide compound featuring extraordinary anti cut and gouge performance; ContiClean, the innovative non-stick surface technology, among others. The digital and cloud-based solutions that will help operators and maintenance team in saving considerable amount of time and labor costs, round off the portfolio. In addition, Continental’s demonstrators will also give a sneak peek to the interested customers into the future of belt monitoring and predictive maintenance for conveyor belts with smart solutions powered by state-of-the-art technologies such as AI.
Benefiting from the trust built over the 150 years of its existence with customers and partners, Continental has unified all products, technologies and services, know-how and expertise under one global portfolio. The Continental brand has become synonymous with delivering top-quality, innovative products and services all around the globe and now with a harmonized global portfolio the company ensures customers and partners experience simpler and more accessible services globally, under the entrusted and experienced Continental Group.
“We’re excited to have this opportunity to exhibit our innovative conveyor market offering, a range of solutions from Continental which our customers achieve operational performance improvements and improved reliability, whilst lowering operating costs and delivering a more sustainable asset utilization” says Ben Wood, responsible for End User Sales in the APAC region.
Speaking on the occasion, Ashish Srivastava, responsible for the Continental legal entity PCBI in India, added, “We have long standing history of producing quality conveying solutions in India. Being a largest steel cord and textile conveyor belt producing company in India, we are committed to the market and ambitious to grow further. With our ‘in the market, for the market’ approach, we are focused to produce industrial solutions tailored to local needs. In addition, our state-of-the-art R&D and NABL accredited Lab facility is further pushing our innovation capabilities in offering global standard robust products and solutions.”
The Conveying Solutions team from Continental is excited to have this opportunity to present its current and future customers and partners, a variety of the most technologically advanced solutions to some of the most persistent problems in the field of conveyor system. Conveyor systems are the backbones of most industrial setups, including Continental’s own, are susceptible to wear and damage leading to huge losses both in terms of money and time. Conveying Solutions ideology of “smart solutions beyond rubber” involves not only state-of-the-art products and revolutionary services that can ensure protection and longevity for the belts and its components to avoid accidents, unplanned shutdowns and unexpected cost incurrences.
9th International Mining, Equipment, Minerals & Metals Exhibition at Kolkata
At the Exhibition the team demonstrated the products and services in booth number R220 in Hall Red. The booth accommodated several product and service which were displayed with professional demonstrations, an open communication area as well as a seminar area for the perusal of interested consumers. The stall visitors had an opportunity to witness live demos of both new and proven products and services. Also, a professional team of engineers and technicians present at the stall answered queries relating to product and services.
ContiPipe belt with Conti Multiprotect monitoring system
The age-old manufacturing techniques of pipe conveyors can lead to numerous conveying issues, including fatigue-induced collapse of the pipe shape, opening of the overlap seal and downward rotation of the overlap seal. The unique patent-pending reinforcement of ContiPipe provides enhanced transverse stiffness, which allows greater resistance to collapse, excellent seal closure and resistance to downward rotation - regardless of the path the belt must travel.
Because of its closed belt design, ContiPipe provides dust-free transport of materials, keeping finer materials within the belt and not lost to the air. Meanwhile, the transported materials are protected from damaging external elements like wind and rain and enables clean material transport through rough terrain.
Mining applications move heavy loads that can be very abusive to conveyor belts. In addition to impact and abrasive effects of the material being conveyed, conveyor belts are often subjected to conditions that cause damage, such as trapped material due to spillage, chute plugs, overloading, slip and other common issues. In these environments, keeping the belt running is crucial for economic efficiency and success.
The innovative Conti MultiProtect system monitors belt conditions by monitoring the equally spaced magnetized rips which are pre-embedded in the belt. When using the MultiProtect flat array, the system can monitor steel cord damage and splice integrity. Troughed arrays monitor the loading point for rip detection. Special pipe belt application allows for the rip insert functionality to also be used for orientation/rotation.
ContiClean non-stick surface solution
In the conveying process, many dry materials become moistened and sticky due to water or moisture dissolution, which makes it more difficult to transport. The new Continental ContiClean solution solves this “sticking issue” and is suitable for use in a wide range of industries. With its superior material releasing ability, the belt effectively reduces material build-up on the idlers and increases efficiency, thereby reducing system maintenance costs and improving profitability. So be it transporting coal and iron ores from mines or transporting boxes of “roshogullas”, ContiClean will ensure the customers never land in a sticky situation.
Solar-Shield heat protection solution
Conveyor belts are often put to test for abrasion and damage while conveying materials with high temperatures which can reach up to 400 °C. The Solar-Shield heat protection system comes in four varieties to best suit the customer’s requirements. Improved heat resistance elongates belt life by around 2-3 years, ensuring lesser belt replacement and increase in business.
Preform splice technology
The choice of conveyor belt splice is essential to the service life, safety, and efficiency of belt operations. By replacing the rectangular strip between conventional cord splices with the patented Preform connector, belts can be connected more quickly and efficiently, thus reducing downtime. Pre-formed splices have been proven to improve efficiency in experiments with two-pulley dynamic splice tester at Continental's Marysville plant and at the Institute for Transport and Automation Technology at Leibniz University Hannover. Since its market debut in 2003, the technology has been used in over 4,600 projects worldwide.
Services, material, accessories & components
Continental understands the critical role that conveyor products play in customers productivity. Our range of diverse, innovative conveyor products are designed to optimize your conveyor systems reliability and performance, including conveyor pulley and lagging, belt cleaners, Trackers etc.
Globally Continental offers both an international network of 1,300 experienced service technician and partners as well as abroad scope of technical consulting, service engineering, digital solutions, and field services. As one of the leading experts for conveying solutions Continental is offering customers worldwide the most complete and advanced product, technology, and service portfolio for all construction, mining and bulk material handling applications. Continental businesses build on an experience of almost 150 years in high-performance conveyor belts.
Smart Conveying, monitoring and maintenance: the future
As the world slowly transforms into Industry 4.0 and 5.0, the Conveying Solutions team thrives to introduce futuristic and smart solutions to their customers which can revolutionize the conveying business with a goal of profitability, safety and sustainability. In the exhibit, hence, the engineers and technicians will also be introducing and giving a sneak peek into our to-be-launched line of products like the one solution stop Conti+ platform. This line of products has been developed implementing advanced algorithms and technologies like Machine Learning, IoT, sensor integration etc. to improve the efficiency in monitoring and maintenance of the conveyor and its components and help the customers take their businesses to new heights.
