Chain supply agreement for agricultural balers announced

Chains are expected to perform seamlessly throughout the harvesting season, as component failure causes downtime when maximum productivity is required, usually in a small timeframe, to ensure profit margins are protected.

For balers, ensuring maximum yield for farmers is the primary aim. This places a wide array of demands on a drive chain. Firstly, shock loads during the formation of the bale can significantly weaken an inferior chain, causing elongation and eventual failure.

The forming of the bale places similar demands also, as the force required to shape the bale is considerable. To further compound these challenges, drive chains on balers are usually operated at high pre-tension settings, which helps create uniformly shaped bales. In all cases, a high quality chain is required to allow reliable operation throughout a season to preserve profitability.

Tsubaki tackles these application challenges by offering the Heavy Duty Chain Series featuring increased tensile strength, which can perform reliably throughout many seasons. By offering a durable and perfectly adapted solution, unacceptable downtime is kept to an absolute minimum.

Unia is the largest Polish manufacturer of agricultural machinery, offering a range of ploughs, seed drills, harrows, mowers, rakes, trailers sprayers and other agricultural machines. The company ensures downtime for end users is kept to an absolute minimum, so to continue this philosophy, it was vital for Unia to specify a chain supplier who was had the same motives.

The three year agreement was signed by both Unia and Tsubaki earlier this year, with the scope to further extend the agreement for Tsubaki to supply additional components to the Polish OEM manufacturer.

Mr Bogdan Bargowski, Technical Director and Board Representative at Unia, commented on the new partnership: "We are looking forward to starting co-operation with Tsubakimoto Chain Company, the largest manufacturer of roller chains in the world.”

Alexandre Barboukov, Tsubaki’s representative in Poland, expanded: "We are delighted to add Unia Group to our growing number of agricultural OEM clients, the company’s focus on quality products and high service levels is in total correspondence with our focus on quality and reliability.”

Barboukov added: “It is further proof that where operational demands on power transmission components are high, our customers are aware of the increased performance of our products, and our exceptional experience in providing solutions for the agricultural sector. The main focus of our customers is to invest in the quality and reliability of their machines, for the benefit of the end user."