Courses | NIBA

This section includes:

Certificate Courses on Heavyweight and Lightweight topics. Users are awarded a NIBA Trained certificate after completing a review and passing an assessment.
Technical Articles on a variety of belting topics, submitted by NIBA committee members
Tech Notes, shorter articles that cover important belting topics
Heavyweight & Lightweight Training Presentations: Use these with your staff. Available to members-only.
Handbooks: Share with your team to reinforce best practice of Lightweight and Heavyweight belting. Available to members-only.

Key Principles of Polyurethane Timing Belts

NIBA’s certificate course for Key Principles of Polyurethane Timing Belts

Heavyweight Belt Selection - Certification

Introduction to Fabric Belt Design and Selection

Heavyweight Failure Recognition - Certification

Conveyor Belt Failure Recognition Training

Lightweight Fabrics and Compounds - Certification

Lightweight Fabrics, Weaves and Compounds

Lightweight Endless Belt Splicing - Certification

Endless Splicing of Plied Lightweight Conveyor Belts

Lightweight Mechanical Belt Splicing-Certification

Mechanical Belt Splicing of Lightweight Conveyor Belts

Lightweight Conveyor Design and Tracking

HW Mechanical Fasteners

Mechanical Belt Fasteners (MBF’s) offer economical, reliable, long-lasting belt splices. This course covers the benefits of MBFs, different types of fasteners,...

Conveyor Safety Training

This introduction to conveyor safety covers pre-job field level hazard assessment, rotating equipment hazards, cushing/engulfment hazards, working at heights, and...

Introduction to LW Specialty Belts - PT-Timing belt, V belt, Ribbed belts

This course begins by talking about the basic principles of how drives work. We then cover types of v-belts, v-belt nomenclature, v-ribbed belts, and characteristics...

Conveyor Belt Compounding Fundamentals

The Power of Positive Drive

NIBA - Tech Notes

A series of 27 short technical articles (or notes) on a variety of belting topics. Read at your own pace.

NIBA - Technical Articles

Technical Articles submitted by NIBA volunteers and members on a variety of belting topics. Some articles taken from previous editions of the Belt Line newsletter.

Heavywieght Training Presentations

Archived Training Presentations on Heavyweight Belting topics. Available to members-only.