ISO 21183-1 Lightweight Conveyor Belts - Standard Test for Key Features and Applications

EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, offers precise and rapid testing services within the scope of ISO 21183-1 testing. ISO 21183-1 describes the basic characteristics and applications of lightweight conveyor belts. This clarification is required either to limit the applicability of certain standards to lightweight conveyor belts or to exclude lightweight conveyor belts from the applicability of certain standards.

Lightweight conveyor belts are mainly used for indoor transportation of unit loads (e.g. parcels, boxes, cans, containers, suitcases, all types of industrial goods and foodstuffs).

In most cases, lightweight conveyor belts are incorporated into a machine as an integrated machine element. These are then called machine belts. In this function, they serve either as a transport element participating in a manufacturing process or as an adjunct to a manufacturing process. In such applications, machine belts sometimes receive special names.

Bulk foods transported by lightweight conveyor belts can be found in the chemical, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food, agriculture, wood and tobacco industries. But they are almost always found in indoor applications or under cover outdoors.

The tensile strength of lightweight conveyor belts is normally provided by layers of mainly synthetic fabrics (polyamide, polyester, etc.), which are bonded to each other by bonding agents or by means of interlayers of different thicknesses, usually of thermoplastic material.

EUROLAB assists manufacturers with ISO 21183-1 test compliance. Our test experts, with their professional working mission and principles, provide you, our manufacturers and suppliers, the best service and controlled testing process in our laboratories. Thanks to these services, businesses receive more effective, high-performance and quality testing services and provide safe, fast and uninterrupted service to their customers.