Lightweight Extended Pitch Conveyor Chain

Pennine Industrial Equipment Ltd has launched the PREMIUM Extended Pitch conveyor chain. The extended pitch chain was originally designed for the glass industry, for hot end engineers requiring a lightweight conveyor chain, that would still run on existing half-inch pitch sockets. Two main changes made it possible to produce this lighter weight chain; the nominal link thickness was increased from the 1.5mm, as used on standard chains, to 2.3mm and the chain pitch was extended from half-inch to one-inch pitch. The resulting chain was approximately 30% lighter and less susceptible to wear and elongation, as it held half the number of joints of standard chains.