How to Select the Best Conveyor Belt For Cookie & Cracker Industries


Whether handling dough, cooling baked products, cutting, molding or packaging, Sparks has a complete range of products for the bakery, biscuit and snack processing industry.

Selecting the right food conveyor belt can help processors improve operations in several areas including:

  • Food Safety
  • Reduced maintenance time & cost
  • Sanitary operations
  • Increased service life and belt performance
  • Wear resistance
  • Chemical Resistance
  • Product release
  • High & low temperature resistance
  • Increased yield & reduced waste

Look for belts that include the following features: 

  • Fabrics and compounds that provide clean and safe food contact processing
  • Constructions that allow for increased service life and belt performance
  • Easily cleaned for trouble free and safe food production
  • PVC & PU compounds that provide extended life, with high oil & fat resistance
  • Special coatings with excellent release properties increasing yield and reducing waste
  • Temperature resistance for both cooling and oven applications

Common Applications:

  • Dough Feeder/hopper
  • Dough sheeter
  • Gauge roller conveyor
  • Rotary cutter
  • Scrap return
  • Feeding belt
  • Frictional belt
  • Cooling Belt
  • Transfer Belt
  • Rotary molder

Whether handling dough, cooling baked products, cutting, molding or packaging, Sparks has a complete range of products for the bakery, biscuit and snack processing industry.

Our technical experts have the experience to assist you in selecting the proper belt for your application and ensure the belting we deliver has the performance you need; and accommodates ingredient and heat compatibility, flex, load-carrying capacity and release characteristics.