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orinoco: Impressive capabilities

With its impressive versatility, you can count on our orinoco moving walk to meet your every need. Its versatility includes an extended travel distance, convenient pallet width, inclined and horizontal configurations as well as indoor and outdoor traffic and commercial applications. With orinoco, you’ll always find just the right configuration for your project.

orinoco. Count on it.

  • 30' (9 m) | 656' (200 m)

    Max rise | Length

  • 0 to 6 | 10 | 12°

    Inclination

  • 32" (800 mm) | 40" (1000 mm) | 48" (1200 mm) | 55" (1400 mm) | 63" (1600 mm)

    Pallet width

orinoco

Perfect for the following applications

Key benefits

Increased connectivity

With orinoco, you cover longer distances. Traveling up to 200 metres, orinoco improves mobility and connections in airports and metro stations worldwide.

Greater comfort and more capacity

At airports and other crowded public spaces, orinoco’s unique 1,600-millimetre-wide pallets raise the bar on safety, comfort and capacity.

Seamless safety

Its 405-millimetre-long pallets reduce pallet gaps, enhancing safety and providing a seamless look.

Spatially efficient

Combining upper and lower horizontal runs creates the perfect configuration to maximize both comfort and the use of space. orinoco’s compact truss also saves space.

Designed for versatility

Whether it’s enhancing the architecture of airports, metro stations or retail environments, orinoco blends seamlessly into your building design. Its numerous design features and options enable it to fit in perfectly. orinoco creates an inviting atmosphere while leaving a lasting impression.

Unique front skirt

With its two-way flap system and additional skirt protector, orinoco’s unique handrail inlet stands up to the daily abuse of trolleys and carts. Available in black synthetic or stainless steel, it eliminates unsightly brushes or rubbers and provides lasting good looks. Even better yet, a kick-resistant safety contact reduces stops, increasing orinoco’s availability.

Distinctive balustrades

orinoco features four different balustrades: a slim glass version for a lighter, sophisticated look, a robust decking option for a solid impression, a metal balustrade for a more industrial appearance and a sandwich construction that’s ideal for modern traffic applications. Several colors, finishes and LED lighting options increase the design possibilities.

Aesthetic skirt lighting

Located above the skirt band, LEDs in light-diffusing channels, the full range of RGB colors and different modes of operation create attractive effects throughout your installation. Light barriers for automatic restart modes can also be seamlessly integrated into your moving walk.

Stunning pallets and pallet gap lighting

We provide black or silver pallets with the option of yellow demarcation lines. If you want something more extravagant, we’ll make sure you get that too. Optional blue or green pallet gap lighting ensures passenger safety and adds to orinoco’s visual appeal.

Comb plate safety light

Located at orinoco’s entrance and exit, this comb plate light enhances passenger safety. Available in white or in green and red, it can also be used as a traffic light.

Additional customisable features

To create an even more unique ride experience, you can choose from additional features such as exclusive claddings, striking handrail colors and other lighting options. Traffic lights can be placed in a column, newel, decking or in front of the floor plate. For a finishing touch on inclined units, you may want to add a truss light combined with glass claddings or different kinds of soffit lighting.

Handrail color options

To create an even more unique ride experience, you can choose from additional features such as striking handrail colors and materials (plastic or rubber). In combination with our handrail lighting options and colors, the design option are endless.

Ingenious engineering, exceptional quality

orinoco’s versatile performance and exceptional quality are the result of our best-in-class engineering, advanced production systems and selected energy-efficiency features.

Guiding system: Fit to purpose

Precise engineering and flawless manufacturing are key to ensuring the highest ride quality. With orinoco’s superior guiding system, we ensure exceptional passenger comfort certified to ISO 18738-2.

Precise guide rails

Even pallet run

The guide rails are precisely aligned using best-in-class adjustment jigs to achieve a perfectly even pallet run for the highest ride comfort.

Guiding rollers

Reliable pallet run

The pallet tracks have vertical and horizontal guidance provisions to reduce wear and tear, noise levels and maintenance.

Smooth run rails

Jerk free pallet run

The rails enable a smooth transition of the pallet chain rollers from the guide rails to the pallet chain sprocket, eliminating the polygon effect throughout the moving walk and enhancing ride quality.

Pallet fastening: Engineered to perform

Our unique fastening concept uses hollow axles that connect the pallets and chain using solid bolts. The result? Easier installation, operation and maintenance.

Pallet bolts

Convenient and failsafe

Connecting the pallets and chain with bolts makes assembly fool proof and disassembly a snap for maintenance.

No pallet chain bridge

Easier maintenance

The hollow bridge eliminates the need for a pallet chain axis, providing easy access to the inside of orinoco for maintenance.

Oil caps

Clean and safe pallets

Oil caps at the end of the hollow axle prevent oil from leaking and polluting the pallet tread, keeping pallets clean and safe.

Operation: A focus on sustainability

While a moving walk consumes minimal energy in a building, we strive to continuously improve our moving walks’ performance and sustainability.

Energy efficiency class

Highest energy efficiency Class A+++

Based on the ISO 25745-3 standard and depending on your final configuration, orinoco delivers the highest energy efficiency.

Energy-saving options

Up to 90% reduction in energy consumption

orinoco’s LED lighting cuts energy consumption by up to 90%. You can further reduce the moving walk’s CO2 footprint by opting for energy-saving sleep mode operation.

ETA drive

Increased efficiency, reduced maintenance

With its 96% efficiency and lubrication lasting 40,000 hours, our ETA drive is good news for both you and the environment.

Strengthen your safety commitment

Whether you’re planning a commercial building or infrastructure project, orinoco is the perfect partner for ensuring passenger safety. Proven product configurations and more than 50 safety features and options, including motion safety devices, protect both your investment and your passengers’ wellbeing.

Balustrade options

Choose between balustrade options, including glass (slim/robust) and solid (metal/sandwich). All options enhance your design flexibility and blend in to your building aesthetics.

Brake wear monitoring

Automatically switches off the drive when worn brake linings are detected: Helps prevent malfunctioning and flags maintenance requirements.

Skirt monitoring

Stops the unit if users are trapped. This safety device mitigates the risk of injuries and also reduces any downtime caused by nuisance stops.

Specifications orinoco
Max length | Rise Up to 656'-2" (200 m)
Max capacity (people/hour) 8200
Configuration Pit
Inclination 0° – 6° | 10° | 12°
Application Commercial | Traffic
Step chain roller Inside
Location handrail drive Truss
Handrail shape U-shape | V-shape
Climate conditions Indoor | Outdoor
Nominal step width 32" (800 mm) | 40" (1000 mm) | 48" (1200 mm) | 55" (1400 mm) | 63" (1600 mm)
Speed 100 fpm (0.5 m/s) | 120 fpm (0.65 m/s) | 150 fpm (0.75 m/s)
Balustrade Slim | Robust | Metal | Sandwich
Aesthetic lights Balustrade | Skirt | Truss | Ambient cladding | Soffit cladding
Traffic lights Floor plate | Decking | Newel | Column
Safety lights Step gap | Comb plate
Drive unit Chain drive | Direct drive
Usage factor 18 hours/day
Average life span 25 years

We reserve the right to make technical modifications to our products at any time and exclude all liability. Shown thresholds depend on configuration details and may vary in individual cases. Availability of options and features also depends on individual configurations. Illustrations aid the general understanding and may differ from the actual design.
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