Mountain resort conveyor belts

Mountain resort conveyor belts are used to transport standing passengers on a continuous or modular belt driven by a motor.

Description of mountain resort conveyor belts

These systems are very popular with beginner skiers, and are often made available to nursery slope customers (at the base of ski slopes in front of buildings), ski schools and kindergartens.

Mountain resort conveyor belts consist of:

• a departure station located at the bottom, which provides the snow/belt connection and generally ensures conveyor belt tension
• a track made up of a variable number of metal structural elements supporting the belt
• a station located at the top which provides the belt/snow connection and drives the belt with an electric motor.

The conveyor belt is also equipped with safety devices that monitor operations and immediately stop the belt if an anomaly occurs.

These devices require the same level of safety as ropeway installations.

Belt speed varies depending on the conveyor belt model, generally 0.7m/s, but can be as high as 1.2m/s for high speed conveyor belts

Mountain resort conveyor belt fleet

Since 2004, mountain resort conveyor belts have been under the supervision of the Ministry of Transport. Since then, STRMTG has issued an opinion (AVTA) for each new type of conveyor belt put into service.
In 2004, there were 105 mountain resort conveyor belts in France.

Today, with the latest figures from the 2022 Activity Report, France has 478 mountain resort conveyor belts.