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Amy Duncan, Dos Santos International, USA, details a recent installation of a high-angle conveyor at a port to easily move materials for export.
reated by Dos Santos International (DSI), the Sandwich Belt high-angle conveyor can take on many forms and provide numerous advantages. This technology can offer a clean, environmentally sound operation because the material being carried remains hugged between the two conveyor belts. The DSI Sandwich Belt high-angle conveyor has been designed to achieve higher conveying speeds and greater capacities than other high-angle conveying methods;
high angles of 90˚ are typical, and lifts of 300 m are easily accomplished. With all the positive features of the DSI Sandwich Belt conveyor, it has been successfully used in mining, quarries, plants, and tunnelling, as well as one sector which is less talked about: ports and terminals. The DSI Sandwich Belt high-angle conveyor has not only been implemented on shiploaders, but the company's ingenuity took the technology
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