HONG'S BELT — Modular Plastic Conveyor Belts

Choosing Between Flat-Top, Spiral, and Open-Grid Belts for a Food Line

Picture a food line as a walk, not a diagram. You come in where the product arrives, you pass the tables where it is handled, you reach the wet steps where it is washed, and you leave where it is packed. At each stop, the belt question is different, and the shape that fits one stop can be wrong at the next. This guide walks that line with you, using only the figures recorded for the HONG'S BELT range, and turning every gap into a question for the supplier.

The range is sold by Huanan Xinhai (Shenzhen) Technology Co., Ltd. under the brand HONG'S BELT. Its official product pages carry marketing descriptions but no full specification tables in text, so this guide publishes no figure it cannot source. Where a width or a load figure is not recorded, the guide says so. A missing figure is a question, not an excuse to borrow a figure from another series.

Generic illustration of a conveyor belt grid
Generic illustration, not a photograph of any product.

First stop: what arrives, and what it rides on

At the door, the question is the load. Trays, cartons, packs, or loose product — each needs a surface that supports it without tipping it or snagging it. A flat top belt gives that continuous flat surface. Two flat top series in this range carry recorded widths. The HS-1800A records a 63.5 mm pitch and a minimum belt width of 200 mm, with a wear-resistant design for higher loads and longer conveyor lengths and car care and wash among its applications. The 1-inch pitch flat top records a minimum belt width of 50 mm for heavy duty transportation, with fruit and vegetable processing, food packaging, and meat processing among its applications.

The third flat top here, the 1701tab chain belt, is listed as a food plastic modular conveyor chain belt, but no pitch or width is recorded for it. So the first stop already produces two questions: which widths the supplier offers for the exact series, and whether the width you need is standard. A 50 mm minimum and a 200 mm minimum are different lines — one carries single-file packs, the other carries trays side by side — and neither width transfers to another series by assumption.

Second stop: where the path bends

Further down the walk, the path bends, and the question changes from surface to turn. The HS-100C is the spiral series in this range: its official product page records a belt pitch of 19.05 mm and a spiral construction with stainless-steel chains, and no full specification table. No belt width, no load figure, and no speed figure is recorded for it. That is the entire recorded figure set, and this guide adds nothing to it.

A turn needs describing, not naming. How tight is it, does the belt rise or fall through it, what enters and leaves it, and what does the belt carry through it? If the turn is a flat curve rather than a spiral rise, say that plainly: the flat top curve family is a separate navigation family, and whether any series suits a curved run is something to confirm, not to assume. Describe the turn in full and ask the supplier to confirm the HS-100C for that exact turn.

Third stop: where the water is

At the wet steps, the question is drainage. An open grid belt has openings in its surface, so water drains through instead of pooling under the product. Two open grid series carry recorded figures. The HS-703b-N records a 27.2 mm pitch and a minimum belt width of 152 mm, and its listing describes it as excellent for seafood processing, especially for stemmed products and dewatering applications, with meat processing, vegetable and fruit, food industry, and beverage among its applications. The HS-3600b flush grid records a 50.8 mm pitch and a minimum assembly belt width of 200 mm, with an open surface for drainage, and meat, poultry, and seafood processing plus fruit and vegetables among its applications.

Openings change support as well as drainage. A grid that drains well can still be wrong if the product is small enough to catch or tip in the openings. Name the smallest product on the line and the wettest step, and ask the supplier to confirm the grid for that product. The opening pattern itself is not recorded as a figure for either series, so ask about it. And ask what happens under the belt: water that drains through still has to go somewhere, and the supports and guides see the same wetting as the belt.

Last stop before you write: temperature and paperwork

Before the walk ends, two questions remain, and both belong in the inquiry. The first is temperature. The standard materials listed in the supplier's platform FAQ are PP, POM, PE, and PA, and the same FAQ gives a temperature range for various materials, from minus 60 to 260 degrees Celsius, as a platform-listing claim. The specific material should be chosen based on your operating temperature. That range belongs to the material family, not to any single series, so state your operating temperature — hot wash and cold store steps included — and ask the supplier to name the material for that temperature in writing.

The second is paperwork. Ask which compliance documentation the supplier can provide for your market and your product, and name the series and the market in the inquiry. The generic line on this site is that certificates are available upon request; the inquiry is where you specify which document you need. Then send the whole walk together — product, path, wet steps, temperature — and ask for the recommendation tied to exact series names. If the answer names a series whose figures are not recorded here, ask for the figures behind it.

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