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Case Studies
Coping With Continuous Wash Down
Sparks Mol assembles the momentum drum motor in the United States as the Dura-Drive SPM motorized pulley for the North American market. In the past, this food processing company has experienced significant problems with the conveyor, which consistently transports an average of 2,500 pig intestines a day for subsequent inspection…
How dealing with Sparks Mol, and taking a cruise, saves a dairy plant from shutting down!
Sparks Mol shows how punctual its service is by using an unconventional shipping method to help get a dairy plant back up and running in Wisconsin.
Case Study: Saving a Paper Shredding Company Money with a Heavy Duty Rubber Belt
Sparks Mol supplies premium heavy-duty belting for the most demanding applications. The best and most innovative conveyor manufacturers in the industry rely on Sparks Mol to provide the right belt for each application. Allegheny Paper Shredders designs and builds heavy-duty incline belts for all industrial applications. They specialize in document…
How Sparks Mol Provided a Durable, Precise, and Complex Conveyor Belting System for an Industrial Setting
Dura-Drive SPM Pulleys and Heavy Duty White Urethan Belts with Cast Urethane V-guides
CASE STUDY: Cost Savings for a Bakery’s Cake Assembly Line
The Company The customer is a large bakery that produces dessert products such as cakes, pastries, cheesecakes, and similar items. This application is basically an assembly line where they are putting together multi-layer cakes. The green timing belts carry the trays that the cakes are sent out in, and the…
Case Study: How a Super Cleat Saved a Paper Recycling Plant Time and Money
The Company This company is one of several locations nationwide that collects all types of paper documents from their contracted customers and shreds the documents before sending the paper off to be recycled. The documents, ranging from file folders, computer printouts, and loose-leaf binders are collected at their customers’ facilities…
Case Study: How a Rubber Conveyor Belt Increased Belt Life Reducing Maintenance Costs and Downtime
The Challenge The tire retread company was having trouble with their uncured rubber material slipping on their belts. A build-up of lubricant for the tire material, along with pressure from brushes that clean the uncured rubber was causing tracking issues and the V-guides on the belt to come off. They…
How Sparks Mol’s Commitment to Customers Provided Endless Value to Tire Manufacturer
The Challenge All the equipment in the new facility was brought in from overseas. Initially, any replacement belts were being imported from the original suppliers. Tire manufacturing employs a very large amount of conveyor belting and importing the belts was making it difficult to quickly replace worn-out ones. There were…
Case Study: Cutting Maintenance Costs in a Baking Company with a Custom V-Guide Solution
The Company This baking company located in Illinois has been family owned and operated for over 50 years. They produce Italian/European-style bread, buns, and rolls at four production facilities. The company operates multiple lines that use a variety of conveyor belts with v-guides to produce their products. The Challenge During…
Case Study: How a High Grip Conveyor Belt Helped a Manufacturer Reduce Slipping and Downtime
The Company Louisiana Pacific Corporation is a leader in the engineered wood products industry. They grind up logs into 2-4” size chips to make a product called SmartSide® trim and siding for houses. This product starts out as a 6” thick mat of wood chips, which is then impregnated with…
Case Study: How Sparks Mol’s Custom Solutions Helped a Bakery Cut Costs and Reduce Lead Times
The company was receiving belts from an OEM equipment supplier overseas which caused high costs to the company and long lead times. The belts provided by the OEM had markings embedded onto the belt to indicate to workers where to place balls of dough so that they get properly placed…
Case Study: How a Capped Edge Conveyor Belt Helped A Vegetable Supplier Cut Costs
The company’s puree and juice lines start with bins of vegetables being dumped into a hopper. The product is then sent via conveyor belts to mills, strainers, pasteurization, and blending processes. The degree to which the product is reduced is determined by the product requirements (i.e. diced, unfiltered or filtered juices, or purees). The Challenge While the belts performed well in…
Case Study: How Sparks Mol’s Dura-Lock Modular Plastic Belting Helped Save a Citrus Company Time & Money
The company processes lemons, limes, and oranges to produce consumer-packaged beverages for retail and food service use. The Challenge The challenge Sparks Mol was given? Install a belt that could withstand a 70,000-pound rough dump of citrus. The Solution After acquiring as much data as possible from the customer and their…