FB Chain to showcase uptime-enhancing conveyor components at RWM 2016

Throughout its 30-year history
FB Chain has acted not only as
a supplier to the recycling and
waste management sectors –
of conveyor and roller chains,
sprockets, pins, bushes, rollers
and attachments – but also as a
design consultant, helping
customers to achieve the very
best performance from their
conveyor operations.

FB Chain’s Inno scraper
attachments made from
multi-laminated beech, for
example, were originally designed
to combat the costly
consequences of overloading
experienced by recycling

customers in Germany. When
customers’ traditional steel
scrapers (from another supplier)
had buckled under pressure,
causing irreparable damage
to chains, sprockets and even
chipping units and furnaces, FB
Chain came to the rescue with a
range of wooden flights that
simply snap when overloaded.
While just as durable, FB Inno
scrapers cause no damage to
surrounding components, are
simpler, quicker and cheaper to
replace and at one tenth of the
weight of traditional steel
scrapers, they dramatically
reduce stress on conveyor
drives, not to mention energy
running costs.

FB Chain’s two-colour
polyethylene wear strips,
meanwhile, were first developed
for a biomass customer in the UK
to help better manage
replacement schedules. In
FB Chain’s unique design two
contrasting coloured plastics
are layered over each other
and as soon as the base colour
becomes visible through the top
layer, technicians know that it is
time to replace the chain guide.
This visual cue acts as a
convenient built-in wear
indicator. Technicians do not
need to stop the conveyor to
check the degree of wear and it
ensures they are replaced at the
optimum time – not too early,
generating unnecessary
expenditure, and not too
late when damage could
be caused to the conveyor
chain.

Just as these key
innovations help to keep
customers’ conveyors
up and running, so too
do FB Chain’s popular
self-cleaning sprockets
with induction-hardened
teeth made from
corrosion-resistant steel.
The grooves around the
edge of each sprocket
prevent loose material
from becoming trapped
between the teeth,
reducing maintenance
requirements and
increasing the life of the
sprocket.

FB Chain will be
showcasing each of
these industry-leading
products, alongside its
portfolio of conveyor and
roller chains, at the at the
forthcoming RWM exhibition, taking
place at the NEC in Birmingham
13th–15th
September.
FB Chain’s
representatives
will be on hand
to discuss
materials,
coatings and
attachments,
as well as other
design challenges
specific
to the recycling
and waste
management
industries.

“At FB Chain we
don’t just
supply
conveyor
components, rather we work
together with customers to
develop innovative solutions that
overcome their individual
challenges and boost the
performance of their entire
conveyor – including efficiency,
ease of maintenance, service
life and total cost of ownership,”
says Darran Green, sales
manager at FB Chain. “We are
very much looking forward to
meeting with new customers at
RWM in September and having
some stimulating discussions
about how to solve their conveyor
problems.”

Find out more at
www.fbchain.com.