During a meeting with the maintenance manager of a well-known German producer of chip and MDF hoards, FB was challenged to provide a forged scraper chain that could run faster, over a longer distance and had an increased working life with reduced down time. When selecting the type of chain to use in a scraper conveyor the benefits of drop-forged link chains have to be balanced against the advantages of conveyor chains to meet as many of the customer expectations as possible, but there is always some compromise. In this case the customer did not want to make any concessions.
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