Continental’s group sector ContiTech recently hosted its Total Conveyance Event in celebration of the expansion of its conveyor belt manufacturing facility in Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brazil. The two-day event featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony and welcomed approximately 100 guests, including customers, industry professionals and local leaders. “It’s a pleasure to welcome our customers and guests to Ponta Grossa for the ContiTech Total Conveyance and Ribbon-Cutting Event,” Gerstenberger said. “This milestone not only marks the official expansion of our Ponta Grossa facility but also reinforces our long-term commitment to our customers, to innovation, and to our deep materials expertise in conveyor belt technology.” The new 7,000 square-meter conveyor belt plant expansion is designed to enhance ContiTech’s competitiveness, doubling, or even tripling, its capacity in the coming years. The expansion includes production lines featuring advanced new rubber mixing, rubber blanket calendering, vulcanization, and inspection technologies, with the aim of guaranteeing excellence at every stage of the process. The expanded facility underscores ContiTech’s strategy to deliver safe, efficient and innovative material handling solutions through its full ecosystem of belts, systems, services and expertise. “We were honored to have our valued customers and partners attend our Total Conveyance Event,” said Sven Hlywiak, vice president of customer engineered solutions, industrial solutions Americas. “Their presence underscores our commitment to the region and our shared vision for the future of conveying. Alongside our investment in the Ponta Grossa plant expansion, this event reflects our long-term commitment to be the first choice for material-driven solutions for our customers.”

Last year’s MINExpo in Las Vegas provided a unique opportunity to learn more about Continental’s diverse mining portfolio including technologies for: Pulley lagging Continental’s pulley lagging solutions are now available at their new facility in West Virginia, which also has splice kits and repair materials available on-demand. The location, an Elastotec Approved Installer, houses a recently installed autoclave, offering hot vulcanized lagging, as well as cold bonding. Continental is a distributor of Elastotec lagging in North America, including sole rights to their proprietary finishing equipment, and with authorization to certify people in the installation of their lagging. Steel cord belts Continental’s Phoenix Phoenocord ST10000 belt is considered one of the world’s strongest according to belt rating. Phoenix Phoenocord steel-reinforced conveyor belts are made for the harshest applications, delivering extreme durability and reliable performance with high-capacity and high-breaking strength, making it a suitable solution for above and below ground use. Comprehensive conveying solutions services Continental’s comprehensive conveyor belt services include installation, maintenance, repair and splicing, and various components, all from one single source. Conti+ 2.0 Continental has enhanced its app-based service platform Conti+, making it much simpler, faster and more comprehensive. The technology provides advanced options to manage conveyor systems and increases efficiency and profitability of an operation across all components and processes. Hoses, air springs, power transmission belts The company offered numerous other products supporting the mining industry, including fluid hoses and specialty mining hoses, suspensions and power transmission belts, monitoring and more. Additional industries served include agriculture, aggregates, cement processing, metal processing, material handling and more.