Belt sanders

In both sandpaper and fiber, sanding belts, also known as sanding belts, are an excellent choice for robots, hand tools, and other applications, backstands or calibrating machines. Our belts are recognized in the market for their bonding durability and for being made to our users' measurements. We can manufacture segmented belts, wave-cut (wave-cut) y overlapamong many others.

Sanding belts are used in pneumatic and electric tools and are used to remove surfaces, achieve finishing, roughing or cleaning in a short time.

Our abrasive belts are manufactured with previously studied, tested and adapted joints for each application to be performed. The joints used in our sanding belts, with cloth and paper backing, give the machine used maximum performance in the process and remarkable finishes in all types of applications depending on the abrasive selected.

What type of belt sandpaper to choose?

There are different types of belt sanders. These are manufactured with special dimensions and specifications for all types of applications. We offer for your design different widths, lengths, minerals and backing types.

Grit type on belt sandpaper

The grit type of our sandpaper will generate a specific result depending on the grit type chosen. Coarser grits are represented by smaller numbers and are for detail and hard surfaces. On the other hand, coarser grits are named with larger numbers and are usually the best choice for fast sanding and large surfaces.

We recommend selecting a coarse 40 grit for hard or heavy roughing applications, 60 or 80 grit for intermediate applications, and 100 or 120 grit for finishing applications. For non-ferrous metals, plastics, lacquer, paint and glass we recommend a 400 grit sanding belt.

Sizes of belt sandpaper

Depending on their dimensions, belt sanders can be classified into the following categories:

• Mini-belts or narrow belts, with a length not exceeding 690 mm
• Short belts, which can be from 690 mm to 3,000 mm in length
• Wide belts from 300 mm to 1,600 mm wide
• Segmented belts, which are usually longer than 1,600 mm

The wide belt sandpaper work very well on veneered surfaces, plywood, soft or hardwoods, and can be used in a variety of sanding methods to achieve calibration or good finishes. They are often preferred for treating wood when removing varnish defects and sanding high wood fibers. They are most commonly used in calibrating machines.

The short belt sandpaper short belts work very well when sanding refractory materials and stainless steel. Their sanding can be aggressive on hard materials.

Materials in belt sandpaper

The size of the abrasive belts abrasive belts is not the only factor to take into account when working with a surface, as another very important one is the material our sandpaper is made of.

• Belt sandpaper for wood: For treating wood, veneer, melamine, iron or leather, the ideal choice is to use an aluminum oxide belt sandpaper.
• Belt sandpaper for metal: For metal it is best to use aluminum oxide, zirconia or ceramic sandpaper.

Sanding belts for other surfaces: For varnish, stone, marble, granite, ceramic, rubber, plastic, bronze, copper, brass or glass, a silicon carbide sandpaper is a very good choice. For stainless steels, cast iron, aluminum or zamak, we recommend zirconium sandpaper. And for stainless steels, cast iron, aluminum and titanium alloys, a ceramic one.

Belt sanders

Belt sanders are machines that work to make use of abrasive belts. abrasive belts. There are many types of belt sanders and they all have the same function: to continuously rotate a sanding belt over a surface to remove material in a short time.

Belt sanders can be electric or pneumatic. The latter, instead of requiring electricity to operate, use an air compressor with enough power to achieve the necessary speed with which we will carry out our operation.

Belt sanders can be divided mainly into three sizes: the smallest are handheld or portable sanders; the next in size are bench sanders (also known as bench or backstand sanders). backstand)and the largest of all are known as horizontal pedestal sanders.

The main characteristic of portable sanders is that they are the ones that we must approach to the material we are going to work on, which usually stays in a fixed point. With them we can sand floors, furniture, walls or fences, among other objects that are difficult to handle or transport.

Some popular models of portable sanders are the grinder and the mini-belt or narrow belt sanders. The latter are the smallest form of handheld sanders.

On the other hand, bench belt sanders and horizontal sanders are stationary sanders. When using them, it is the material that we will work on that we will transport and bring closer to them, as they are static machines. 

Horizontal sanders are the most ideal for professional industrial work on both metal and wood. They have great capacity for deburring edges and cleaning weld seams.

Other special stationary machines for abrasive belts are calibrating machines (also known as wide belt sanders); central suction sanders, especially for wood; and square orbital sanders, also for treating wood.