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Belting goes high-tech: selling to the high-tech industry is one sure-fire way to increase margins. (includes related articles on consolidations among belting manufacturers)
Industrial Distribution, September, 1997
When you make mention of the industrial belting industry, several images come to mind. Of course, there are the conveyor belts so commonly seen at grocery stores, the belting used to transport your luggage at airports, and the heavy-duty belts associated with earth moving and mining applications.
In fact, next to plumbing, heating and air conditioning applications, mining and grocery stores are among the major users of fiat industrial belting. But there's another industry that consumes large amounts of belting products, although they come mostly in small sizes. The high-tech industry - makers of CD-ROMs, computer chips and semiconductors, for example - are huge users of belting. And, because of the complex nature of the thermoplastic belting involved, margins...
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