The Super Drive system
Buy the hub once, then replace the tires as they wear.
Designed for the demanding requirements of moulders, planers, rip systems, and other material-feeding machinery, Super Drive Tires deliver superior traction, consistent feeding performance, and extended service life. Originally developed for the woodworking industry, the Super Drive system is also widely utilized by machinery manufacturers, engineers, and maintenance professionals to create reliable custom machine designs and material-handling solutions.
Super Drive is for moulders and planers. The equivalent system for power feeders is Super Feed — the names are similar and the parts are not interchangeable.
What Super Drive changes
Super Drive Tires help improve production quality and reduce operating costs by:
- Reducing trim loss caused by excessive end splitting
- Eliminating raised grain and feed-related surface defects
- Reducing roller split marks and burn marks
- Minimizing slippage for more uniform knife cuts per inch and improved finish quality
- Reducing maintenance costs by decreasing wear and tear on feed works
- Eliminating costly custom roller coverings, bonding failures, and expensive freight charges associated with traditional soft rollers
- Allowing hubs to be purchased only once
- Providing convenient in-stock replacement tires for fast maintenance and reduced downtime
Traction against wear life
Our Super Drive tires are available in a range of high- and low-coefficient-of-friction formulations, allowing you to balance traction, durability, and tire life for your specific application. A higher coefficient of friction provides greater grip and feeding traction, while a lower coefficient of friction allows for longer wear life and increased durability.
The relationship between traction and durability is important to understand. In general, higher-traction compounds provide more grip but wear more quickly, while lower-traction compounds offer greater durability and extended service life. The hardness is the color, so you can read a tire on the machine at a glance.
70 duro Yellow tires provide the highest level of traction and are typically reserved for specialized moulding applications where maximum feeding performance is required. While offering exceptional grip, they generally have a shorter wear life than harder durometers. When utilizing 70 duro tires, reducing beam feed pressure (PSI) is highly recommended to minimize tire wear, maximize service life, and maintain optimal feeding performance.
85 duro Orange tires are the preferred choice for most applications and represent the ideal balance of traction, durability, and overall value. With excellent grip characteristics and outstanding wear resistance, 85 duro is the sweet spot for moulders, planers, and rip systems, making it our most versatile and widely used formulation.
95 duro Red tires provide lower traction but deliver maximum durability and tire life. They are commonly used in push-through moulders and other applications where extended wear resistance is the primary objective.
Choosing a hardness
- Choose 95 duro when maximum durability and extended tire life are more important than peak traction, particularly in push-through moulders and other high-wear applications.
- Choose 85 duro for the vast majority of applications. It provides the best combination of grip, durability, wear resistance, and overall value, making it the preferred choice for moulders, planers, and rip systems.
- Choose 70 duro when maximum traction is required for specialized moulding applications and feeding performance is the highest priority. Reduced beam feed pressure is strongly recommended to maximize tire life.
Whether you are maintaining an existing machine, upgrading feed performance, or designing a custom application, Super Drive Tires and Hubs provide a proven, cost-effective solution for consistent feeding, improved finish quality, reduced maintenance, and reliable long-term performance.
Before you order
The makes and models listed on this site are intended as a general application guide only. Product specifications may vary due to differences in manufacturing year, machine configuration, OEM revisions, aftermarket modifications, and application requirements. Customers are responsible for verifying all critical dimensions — outside diameter, tire width, bore size, keyway size and mounting — prior to purchase.
If your application requires a configuration not shown on our website, call us on 800-541-2317. Our team can often identify or match replacement products that are not currently listed online.