Continental Launches Total Conveyance Solutions with Customer Event as it Celebrates Expansion of Conveyor Belt Plant in Brazil

FAIRLAWN, Ohio May 15, 2025. Continental’s group sector ContiTech recently hosted its Total Conveyance Event in celebration of the expansion of its conveyor belt manufacturing facility in Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brazil. The two-day event featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony and welcomed approximately 100 guests, including customers, industry professionals and local leaders.

Attendees received an in-depth look at ContiTech’s integrated material handling solutions through guided tours, technical sessions and live demonstrations. The event marked the launch of Total Conveyance, which provides customers with an integrated approach that combines products, services and digital technologies to support material handling across mining, agriculture, construction and logistics. During the event, ContiTech leaders also had individual, high-level discussions with customers and partners.

Philip Nelles, a member of Continental’s Executive Board and CEO of the ContiTech group sector, and Andreas Gerstenberger, CEO of ContiTech USA and Head of Business Area Industrial Solutions Americas, led the event alongside Paraná Governor Carlos Massa Ratinho Junior, Ponta Grossa Mayor Elizabeth Schmidt, plant employees, and other regional stakeholders.

“It’s a pleasure to welcome our customers and guests to Ponta Grossa for the ContiTech Total Conveyance and Ribbon-Cutting Event,” Gerstenberger said. “This milestone not only marks the official expansion of our Ponta Grossa facility but also reinforces our long-term commitment to our customers, to innovation, and to our deep materials expertise in conveyor belt technology. With this investment, we are delivering on our ‘in the region and for the region’ approach, allowing us to shorten product shipping timelines and better meet the needs of our customers in South America, the world's largest regional market for heavy steel cord belts.”

The new 7,000 square-meter conveyor belt plant expansion is designed to enhance ContiTech’s competitiveness, doubling, or even tripling, its capacity in the coming years. The expansion includes production lines featuring advanced new rubber mixing, rubber blanket calendering, vulcanization, and inspection technologies, with the aim of guaranteeing excellence at every stage of the process.  The expanded facility underscores ContiTech’s strategy to deliver safe, efficient and innovative material handling solutions through its full ecosystem of belts, systems, services and expertise.

“We were honored to have our valued customers and partners attend our Total Conveyance Event,” said Sven Hlywiak, Vice President of Customer Engineered Solutions, Industrial Solutions Americas. “Their presence underscores our commitment to the region and our shared vision for the future of conveying. Alongside our investment in the Ponta Grossa plant expansion, this event reflects our long-term commitment to be the first choice for material driven solutions for our customers.”

Event highlights included:

• A ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the plant’s expansion
• A guided tour of new production lines and technologies
• Technical sessions on conveyor systems, belt splicing, testing and monitoring
• Networking with Continental experts and peers
• Live demonstrations of innovative belt solutions

ContiTech’s Total Conveyance offering is the complete portfolio of products, systems, and services that enable the efficient, safe, and sustainable transportation of materials across various industries. It represents an integrated, end-to-end material handling solution – delivering not just conveyor belts, but a full ecosystem of technologies, components, and expertise to support modern material transport needs.