Pack Expo: Center for Trends &amp; Technology focuses on solutions

Educational exhibit makes Chicago debut at PACK EXPO International.

Wire Belt

Wire Belt, the leading developer of open mesh stainless steel conveyor belts, has been keeping confectioners’ lines running for more than 65 years. Made of high quality stainless steel or carbon music wire, Flat-Flex conveyor belts are designed to optimize the performance of chocolate enrobing and candy coating systems.

Flat-Flex belts offer superior flow-through characteristics and are perfect for confectionery applications such as cooling, coating and enrobing. Wire Belt also manufactures a line of specialty conveyor belts to accommodate candy’s unique handling requirements, including flights, compound and aligned belts.

The company also has introduced its new Versa-Link conveyor belt, one of the most durable and open metal belts available for light to medium-duty applications. Designed with Advanced Link Rods, the innovative linking rods join in as little as 30 seconds. There are no special tools or welding required and the linking rods connect in the center, leaving no weak points.

Versa-Link offers one of the tightest transfers available and can be easily retrofitted on your existing equipment. Wire Belt’s entire line of Flat-Flex belting products are accepted by the USDA NSF/ANSI/3-A hygiene standards.

Stop by booth 10504; for additional information, visit www.wirebelt.com.

With more than 30 years experience in B-to-B reporting, writing and editing — the bulk of which was dedicated to covering the bakery, confectionery and snack industries — Pacyniak has chronicled changes within the food industry since the early 1980s. A Boston University journalism degree graduate, he worked for a variety of publications before joining BNP Media in 1994 as editor of Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery magazine. In 2001, he took over as editor-in-chief of Candy Industry until 2018.