Marel's EnduraBelt meets all poultry transport requirements

The efficient, fast, robust and food-safe transport of products with minimal transitions is crucial in processing plants. Fresh meat quality depends on protein-specific, non-sticky belt material that reduces touchpoints, preserving meat integrity and extending shelf life. JBT Marel’s unique EnduraBelt conveyor material, specially designed for its Systemflex systems, strikes the perfect balance between functionality, technical innovation, and cost-efficiency—delivering a smarter, safer and reliable transport solution even in the most complex logistic environments.

In poultry processing, logistics are becoming increasingly complex. Based on their quality and other characteristics, products must be routed to their best destination. A reliable, robust, and smooth transfer from A to B remains the top priority for any logistics system.

Shelf life, touchpoints and contamination
Minimising transition points on a conveyor belt is crucial for product integrity and shelf life. Each transfer adds a new contact point. This increases the risk of contamination, half of which comes from the product itself. Keeping products on a single EnduraBelt reduces contact points and enhances both efficiency and food safety.

By reducing the amount of product-to-belt contact, EnduraBelt solves multiple challenges at once. It minimises protein adhesion, reduces contamination risk, and needs less cleaning. And once cleaning is required, SystemFlex EnduraBelt ensures that this is easy.

Unique belt material
Usually, conveyor belts work in a cold environment of 2 to 4°C while cleaning happens, with cleaning agents, chemicals and chloride concentrations at temperatures which can go as high as 50°C. The belts cool down once again to 3°C. EnduraBelt material weathers the chemical and mechanical strains of cleaning very well, which results in long belt life.

All usual belt materials have challenges as far as chemical resistance is concerned. What makes EnduraBelt unique is its new, revolutionary thermoplastic polymer material, offering an exceptional combination of performance characteristics. It not only has much higher chemical resistance to chlorine but also features stronger mechanical properties. Combined with its modular design, this results in considerably increased tensile strength, enabling the design of conveyor systems with minimal transition points. With wear and tear significantly reduced, EnduraBelt has a longer life, even under harsh conditions.

Just for meat
Developed in collaboration with Ammeraal, EnduraBelt belt material combines the best of both worlds, bringing together essential expertise—where the conveyor specialist meets the poultry system integrator. That’s why moving poultry meat from A to B is EnduraBelt’s sole purpose. This material reduces sticking issues, as it has a smaller contact area. This ensures improved product release. Unlike solutions designed to accommodate a variety of food products, the fact that EnduraBelt was designed to transport meat is critical.

Improved safety
EnduraBelt’s design significantly improves safety. Most modular conveyor belt materials have open edges on the sides, creating a potentially unsafe situation for the operator, for example, when an operator’s sleeve gets caught. This is a known safety risk, but until now, the only solution available on the market was adding safety guarding, which then creates an obstacle for cleaning. EnduraBelt is safe, thanks to its fully closed edges with no catch or hang-up points and no need for safety guards.

SmartRelease
EnduraBelt makes the life of processors easier with its SmartRelease system for making quick adjustments. In case there is an issue, for example, a snapped belt, it is easy to fix. Usually, it is quite a hassle to disassemble the linking pins, especially in a cold environment. EnduraBelt only requires one handy tool, the SmartRelease, to detach the belt in a second, swap it and put it back. The line will be running again in a matter of minutes. This is important because reducing downtime is key.

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