PTFE and Silicone Belts

Belting Overview

TechBelt can offer you a full range of high temperature belting to service your exact requirement. Designing, supplying and fitting PTFE and Silicone belts are but a few of the services we provide.

With capabilities to manufacture belts in varying styles; from small packaging types to large textile oven drying belts they are produced using a number of skilled techniques. This fabrication technology comes with the experience gained from tried and proven field activity. Applied techniques are continually improved upon through the knowledge gained from working closely with our varied client base.

Our range of belting can be supplied in various thicknesses from 0.08mm - 0.9mm and widths from 20mm x 5m wide depending on style and type. We have the facilities to offer either spliced, mechanically fastened or prepared joints ready for on-site installation.

Castellated splice on mesh belt

Mesh Belting

PTFE coated glass mesh belting can be used within a number of applications but is especially common in the textile drying industry. Because of its excellent high temperature properties and release characteristics it is ideally suited to withstand the extreme nature of these drying processes.

PTFE coated glass mesh belts are also commonplace on screen print dryers. Ideally suited to withstand the high temperatures of UV and IR lamps, PTFE mesh belting is a cost saving solution to wire mesh versions that can be costly and difficult to replace. Often supplied with a metallic clipper style fastener, belts can easily be removed and replaced therefore minimising downtime and saving money.

Thermal Bonding

Our range of PTFE coated solid woven belting lends itself extremely well to use within garment and textile fusing. Two belts run in tandem (top and bottom), to allow thermal bonding to take place on interlinings and other such items. Using a carbon-loaded belt acting as barrier between the hot platen and the often-delicate garments, our belts allow the items to be fused and easily bonded without excess adhesive sticking to the belt. With the belts having a working temperature of up to +260ºC it is well suited to this high temperature fusing application.

PTFE coated food processing fabric

Food Process Belting

PTFE coated solid woven glass and Kevlar® belting is widely used within food manufacture. Because of its non-stick nature it is ideally used when cooking foods that would have a tendency to stick to hot cooking platens. Belts are widely used as a conveyor belt where tortillas and Nan breads are pressed from balls of doe in to a flat disc shape on the machine. The heat transfer through the belt then cooks the doe whilst being conveyed.

Foods like bacon and burgers are also mass cooked and require a belt that can withstand this aggressive environment. This would normally require a belt with a high PTFE content for good release. PTFE belts are largely used when cooking tortilla breads as seen above in many different

Studded packaging belt

Packaging Belts

Shrink Wrap ovens often have the requirement for PTFE mesh or closed weave Silicone belts. We supply a number a varying styles and sizes that our Technical Sales Support would be more than happy to discuss with you. Whether you require the thermal retaining benefits of a silicone belt or the airflow throughput of the mesh we can supply to fit your requirement.

Other packaging belts come in the form of sealer belts. These tend to be two belts that run in tandem side by side. With studs fixed in the side to aid tracking, they are often found where packs of toilet rolls biscuits packets require sealing at the ends.