In 2008, the employees of Optibelt North America were asked to examine a critical drive in a coal-fired power plant. Soon it became obvious that the installed standard V-belts were not able to meet the requirements of the 350 PS pump drives. The belts failed at regular intervals which lead to production downtimes,...

Just twenty years ago, driving a vehicle has often been a quite noisy experience. The reason: The noise emitted by the belt drives was more than annoying. Wet conditions, a lack of tension or simply an exceeded operational life were causes for the undesirable side effects.

Five Industrial Sales Representative trainees took their final examinations at the end of June 2010 and achieved excellent results. Two trainees, Eva Maßmann and Anja Ostermann, only slightly missed an “excellent“ overall score, but in one case the perfect final score was achieved.