Characteristics of the Lightweight Conveyor Belt Industry - Guangyuan Ruifeng New Materials

Release Time: 2020-09-14

Summary: Lightweight conveyor belt products have a wide range of applications, and the requirements for product performance are very precise, with significant differences in performance requirements across different industries. Different application environments and uses in downstream industries lead to significant differences in performance requirements for lightweight conveyor belts, placing high demands on the technical capabilities of enterprises. To address this, enterprises need to modify the covering layer materials, process the carcass fabric, and find suitable base materials and optimal manufacturing processes to achieve different conveyor belt performance. The performance of some high-end products also requires enterprises to combine advanced calendering processes.

1. Wide range of applications and precise performance requirements

Lightweight conveyor belts have a wide range of applications, and the performance requirements are very precise, with significant differences in requirements across different industries. Different application environments and uses in downstream industries lead to significant differences in performance requirements for lightweight conveyor belts, placing high demands on the technical capabilities of enterprises. To meet these demands, enterprises need to modify the cover material, treat the carcass fabric, find suitable base materials, and optimize the manufacturing process to achieve different conveyor belt performance. The performance of some high-end products also requires enterprises to utilize advanced calendering processes.

2. Highly dispersed customers

The downstream industries of the lightweight conveyor belt industry are numerous. Generally, large-scale enterprises have a large number of customers, resulting in a highly dispersed customer structure across various industries. Correspondingly, the demand for lightweight conveyor belts from most end customers is concentrated in the range of hundreds to thousands of square meters. Large customers with an annual demand exceeding 10,000 square meters account for a very small proportion of the total number of customers for enterprises. This leads to low customer concentration and highly dispersed sales in the lightweight conveyor belt industry.

3. High service requirements

Lightweight conveyor belts account for a relatively low proportion of the value of a complete automated production line or conveying equipment, but they are indispensable components for the normal operation of such equipment. Any problems will have a significant adverse impact on the daily production and management of customers. Therefore, downstream direct users have high requirements for the timeliness of services. This requires enterprises to promptly understand the use status of customers' conveyor belts and respond quickly to their needs for replacement and repair. Therefore, the construction of a market service network is one of the important ways for lightweight conveyor belt enterprises to cope with market competition.

4. High delivery requirements

Because lightweight conveyor belts are indispensable for the normal operation of automated production lines, downstream direct customers generally have high requirements for the delivery time of conveyor belt products. Ordinary orders usually require completion within 3-5 days, while large-volume product orders are delivered in batches starting from one week. Some urgent orders even require delivery on the same day or the next day. Therefore, new material conveyor belt enterprises usually need to stock raw materials and commonly used specifications of rolls to meet the urgent delivery requirements of downstream direct customers.

Keywords: Characteristics of the Lightweight Conveyor Belt Industry - Guangyuan Ruifeng New Materials