World Records
Overview
The fastest conveyor belts worldwide run at a speed of 15 m/s. They are operating on the biggest spreaders on earth at the lignite mines of RWE in Germany.
24,000 m (78,740 ft) of a PHOENOCORD St 7800 were supplied to the Los Pelambres mine in Chile in 1999.
In 1986 Phoenix supplied the world's strongest conveyor belt for underground use.
The highest capacity conveyor belts on earth carry up to 40,000 tons per hour.
For the highest mine on earth at an elevation of almost 5,000 m (16,000 ft).
The longest conveyor belt on earth will be conveying 1000 t/h of limestone from a mine located in India across the state border to a cement plant in Bangladesh.
The latest path breaking application is a 16.4 km long belt (8,172 m center distance).
In 1975 Phoenix supplied 3,000 m (9,800 ft) of PHOENOCORD St 4000 to a German underground coal mine.
5,500 m (18,000 ft) of PHOENOCORD St 4000 are operating in the Pierina mine in the Andean Cordillera.