In today’s industry, the need to control operational costs and hygienic levels in food production are at a priority. Many engineers and production workers look at ways to minimise costs including water usage, mechanical breakdown and downtime for cleaning.
Volta SuperDrive and Dual Drive support the food processing industry with a solution to solve these issues, tackling the problems with an innovative and ingenious designed product. The design incorporates integral teeth produced on the underside of the belt which engages in sprockets; creating a positive driven, low tension, 100% closed hygienic surfaced belt perfect to use in the food industry.
Revolutionary in design, Volta SuperDrive and DualDrive has become a preferred choice over plastic modular link belting when hygienic standards are concerned.
After years of market research and product development, Volta discovered the major hygienic and cost issues implemented by the use of modular belting in food production. As a result, Volta innovated a monolithic, hinge free sprocket driven flat belt capable of overcoming the hygienic issues raised by modular belting, yet keeping the one main advantage; positive drive.
That result: Volta SuperDrive.
SuperDrive was officially launched worldwide in 2001 and has been a major success. Now engineers had a choice in choosing what type of positive drive belt system they wanted. Needing only minimal engineering adjustment to an existing conveyor, you could create a sprocket driven SuperDrive belt system and avoid the hygiene and cleaning hassles of modular belting.
In 2006, Volta released its next stage of hygienic positive drive belting; Volta DualDrive. The DualDrive was based on the SuperDrive concept, but with one very distinct difference. DualDrive belting can be used as a direct substitute for most modular belting designs, meaning that no modification would be needed to the conveyor for the DualDrive to work.
Further development led to the DualDrive SP (Small Pulley), designed for tight transfers, as well as profile top covers for incline/decline applications optional for the entire Volta positive drive range.
Due to these innovations by Volta, a new benchmark has been set in the market for hygienic positive drive belting.
- Homogenous structure eliminates no ply construction reducing cleaning and lengthy soaking time.
- Massive reduction in water and chemical usage for cleaning, saving you time and money
- Sanitation time drastically reduced
- Eliminates the need of high pressure spraying
- Increased production due to minimal downtime
- Teeth are part of the belt, therefore they have no weld points that may break under load
- No expensive in-process wash-down systems needed
- Greatly reduced noise levels when compared to modular belting
- FDA/USDA/3A/NSF Compliance for direct food contact
- Complies with the HACCP concept and is HACCP certified
- No belt pretension required
- Eliminates belt slippage due to sprocket driven positive drive design
- Belt elongation eliminated or greatly decreased
- Can run on existing modular conveyors and designs
- Approx 50% lighter than modular belting : easy for logistical purposes and minimal wear on conveyors
- Light weight material, cutting down on motor energy usage
- Can be used on incline/decline, trough and gooseneck conveyors
- Ability to use scrapers
- Eliminates modular plastic links breaking off and contaminating food
- Reduced conveyor maintenance costs
- Low bacteria counts
- Reduced waste caused by product sticking to the belt or being wedged in modular components