Conveyor Screw


With over 30 years of experience in the manufacture of screw conveyor segments, screw conveyor blades and flights, Heli-Tec a Wrights Dowson Group company is continually asked, can you do this?

Whether this be of a special design, an obscure specification or even a full flight screw with a 3m pitch at 1245mm diameter, whatever the enquiry, Heli-Tec call on their experience to find a satisfactory solution.
Typically, the range of equipment supplied by Heli-Tec encompasses the following:
  • Full pitch segments.
  • Half pitch segments.
  • Variable pitch segments.
  • Tapered segments.
  • Ribbon segments.
  • Paddle blades.
  • Continuous flighting.

With a manufacturing capability to roll screws in one piece up to 150 mm diameter, segments up to 1800mm diameter and 40mm x 6mm flat on end, as well as rolling screws up to 12mm thickness, which overcomes the problems of joining together individual segments, the list of applications is virtually endless.
Heli-Tec screw conveyor segments and blades can be found in use across a broad spectrum of industries including, food, cement, coal, and sugar. Whilst an array of flighted products are used in material compressors, water & effluent pumps, mixers & measures and even in large size concrete mixers.

The benefits of custom designed flighting and segments is there in every day use:
  • Stainless Steel flights used in the food industry contribute to reducing contamination.
  • Reduced replacement costs.
  • High suitability for conveying abrasive materials.