Each cross rod is clinched with the next forming a step to produce a smooth and uniform selvage. The result is a heavy-duty belt capable of working at high temperatures.

The linking hooks can be welded to achieve even greater overall robustness. These days, it is the most widely used belt for sintering furnaces, copper welding and other applications up to a temperature of 1150ºC.

Two characteristics which make these belts especially appropriate at high temperatures are:

The high traction strength of a structure formed in this way allows thinner wire diameters to be chosen than those used for an equivalent belt of another type. This means that less material is used, and therefore incur a calorific energy saving in the heating-cooling cycle of the installation.

This type of can be supplied with simple selvages or ones reinforced with a width of double mesh as shown in the accompanying photograph.

Metallurgical:

• Heat treatment.
• Metal powder sintering processes.
• Continuous furnace welding processes.
• Other processes in high temperature furnaces.