MechChem Africa July-August 2025

⎪ Innovative engineering ⎪

Left: Tru-Trac’s new Apex Trackers deliver enhanced belt traction and feature auto-adjusting tension for improved performance and reliability. Right: Tru-Trac’s advanced reporting system tracks daily tonnage, idle time and productivity, giving operators valuable insights to optimise performance.

prevention, proactive maintenance of belt scales; misalignment detection, drive and gearbox health reports, and productivity and belt efficiency tracking – all of which make a significant contribution to successful, cost effective and efficient belt utilisation,” he says.

RIP Prevent+,” he adds. In addition, by feeding additional infor mation from sensors into the RIP Prevent+ system, we are now able to monitor the health of the gearbox, bearings, and the return belt scrapers. Tru-Trac is further expanding the proactive maintenance capability of this easily installed, low-investment, AI-based system. One vibration sensor on the return belt scraper enables Tru-Trac to monitor whether the scraper is in contact with the belt and suc cessfully removing carry-back material and preventing spillages and contamination. As the scraper begins to wear close to the point of losing contact, a change in the vibration sig nature is detected, alerting operators to the need for a replacement or service. Similarly, adding a sensor to the gearbox gives clients another simple proactive maintenance tool on this vital component of their conveyors. “Ultimately, we see this system as offering a comprehensive advanced reporting and predictive maintenance solution for conveyor belt operators, including pre-emptive rip

we have included a spring mechanism that enables the tension to be set via a single bolt, using a built-in indicator to ensure the correct tension is applied. Once set, the ten sion on either side of the tracker maintains optimal tracking performance,” Rogoff tells MechChem Africa. These designs have been successfully tested and have proved to be effective at the busy Richards Bay Coal Terminal. “We are continually evolving our product of fering, adding new features and improve ments that we know will improve conveyor performance, reliability and uptime. “At bauma 2025, our innovations received strong interest from the international market. We are determined to maintain Tru-Trac’s leadership position in belt tracking and innovation, and we will con tinue to expand and improve our current product range and to develop new prod ucts to better meet the needs of conveyor belt operators,” he concludes. https://tru-trac.com

New Apex trough and return trackers

Also introduced at bauma were Tru-Trac’s new Apex trough and return trackers, which feature moulded rubber with a new tread-pattern design for better traction. “The belt tracker steers the conveyor belt, so it must maintain good traction between the tracker and the belt. This new moulded tread pattern delivers better adhesion and therefore better tracking performance on the trackers,” he explains. In addition, a new self-adjusting bracket has been developed to automatically tension the conveyor tracker to the belt. Previously, this tension would have had to be manually adjusted to a fixed tension. Now

Tru-Trac introduced a new belt-scale innovation at bauma 2025 featuring AI integration that combines RIP Prevent+ intelligence with advanced weighing technology.

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