Berndorf Band Group provides worldwide R&D and test centers
- Worldwide R&D and test centers with diverse capabilities
- What is a Double Belt Press?
- How do the tests work? What is being tested?
- Why your business might need a Double Belt Press?
- Reasons to choose Berndorf Band Group
Worldwide R&D and test centers with diverse capabilities
Berndorf Band Group is proud to have worldwide R&D and test centers with diverse capabilities. Our test centers can be found in the United States of America, Japan, and, of course, Austria. Our international team of approximately 400 is able to provide support on the ground and deliver outstanding customer service. This includes teams of quick-response certified technicians to ensure your steel belts and steel belt systems are always ready for use.
Meanwhile, our headquarters in Berndorf, Austria, is our main location for planning and testing custom solutions for steel belts, steel belt systems, and their associated components. Our Berndorf headquarters is also home to our research & development facility. Here, our team of dedicated specialists can assist you with customized solutions, including everything from conducting feasibility studies to manufacturing product samples and production materials. This includes the opportunity to run tests on our Double Belt Presses.
What is a Double Belt Press?
The Double Belt Press is a continuous flat bed press. Two endless steel belts run one above the other around two pairs of upper and lower drums and form a pressure zone between them. The Double Belt Press offers following system advantages:
- Heating and cooling under pressure in a single continuous production step
- Uniform and efficient heat transfer (heating/cooling) from both sides ensures straightness / flatness without warpage
- Uniform pressure transfer onto the product ensures a precise thickness control
- Customer-specific design according to product requirement possible
- The steel belt ensures a smooth product surface
Where a conventional Double Belt Press may only allow production companies to create limited products, Berndorf Band Group’s unique Modular Double Belt Press system will allow you to keep up with continuing change in demand. The modular system can combine different press types and allows for a variety of heating and cooling modules and components in the same production line. What’s more, the modules can be swapped out and changed at any time, without dismantling the steel belts. The machine can also be expanded or shortened as needed. Our Modular Double Belt Press boasts exceptional versatility, allowing for the production of a wide range of products on a single machine.
The modules available for our Double Belt Press include:
- Sliding Plate Module Heating (SPM-H)
- Sliding Plate Module High-Pressure (SPM-HP)
- Sliding Plate Module Temperature-Control (SPM-TC)
- Sliding Palte Module Cooling (SPM-C)
- Roller Carpet Module Heating (RCM-H)
- Fixed Roller Module Heating (FRM-H)
- Calander Module Heating (CAM-H)
We developed two new modules for our Modular Double Belt Press which include:
- An impregnation and consolidation module with high pressure zones. This module can be used to process thermoplastic materials and can be heated to more than 400 °C (752 °F).
- A temperature-control module featuring adjustable cooling zones. This module meets requirements of the polymer-dependent cooling rate and operates between 100-250 °C (212-482 °F).
All modules and components for our Double Belt Press are available for testing at our R&D center for Double Belt Systems in Berndorf.
