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Track Shoes
The Widest Choice

A Company of
ThyssenKrupp
BERCO S.p.A.
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Berco
Moving Your Business Ahead

Leadership in Getting the Most from Berco Process Control

Undercarriage your Undercarriage Berco builds value &
For about 90 years Berco’s Since 1920 Berco has durability into every
leadership and research has continued to innovate and undercarriage component.
resulted in the greatest improve undercarriage Berco controls processes
undercarriage value. performance. High-quality critical to durability and
Quality is the critical link materials and careful value, such as: design, raw
that assures the maximum manufacturing processes material, heat treating,
productivity of your ensure that Berco manufacturing and because
machine. No one has undercarriage components Berco has control over
invested more than Berco are reliable, durable and these processes,
to assure dependable wear at a predictable rate. our undercarriages wear at
High Quality Longer life and controllable a predictable rate and can
Undercarriage. Berco wear mean that you be managed as a system.
starts with the highest get maximum
quality steel, then controls undercarriage performance
hardened depth along with at the lowest operating
other performance features. cost. At Berco we call it
As a result Berco’s “Best Undercarriage
undercarriage is second to Value”
none for extended wear life
and value.
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Track Shoes
The Widest Choice

Berco Track Shoes

Berco track shoes are through hardened and stress
relieved to guarantee excellent wear, high strength and
resistance to bending and breakage resulting in longer life.
Berco offers the widest variety of track shoes and track
shoes options (clipped corners, mud holes, etc.) to meet
the requirements of every work environment.

Your Best Undercarriage Value

• Heavy duty rolled steel profiles
• Low alloyed Boron Steels with certified hardenability
based on Berco specification
• Through hardened and stress relieved for high strength
and resistance to bending and breakage
• Surface hardness HRC 47 for reduced wear and longer
life
• Precise design, carefully manufactured for proper fit
• Easy regrousering

The Widest Choice

• Over 60 different profiles with Single, Double and Triple
grousers
• Greatest selection of shoe configurations: width,
chamfered holes, mud holes, clipped corners, etc.
• Cast steel shoes: swamp type, flat type, etc.
• Forged shoes for special applications: mining, etc.
• Rubberized, polyurethane and rubber clamped-on
steel shoes
• More than 5.000 different shoes, to match any chain or
application
• Chain pitch range 101÷350 mm
• The choice of the leading OEMs

Customer Satisfaction
Considering that more than 50% of your maintenance
costs will go into maintaining the undercarriage, it is not
surprising that Berco represents the best choice when the
time comes for the replacement. And the best choice is
confirmed by the large number of Satisfied Customers
that Keep Choosing Berco
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The Widest Choice

THE WIDEST CHOICE Standard Applications

Single Grouser Shoes Double Grouser Shoes Triple Grouser Shoes

Typically for bulldozers Typically for loaders Typically for excavators,

when grip and traction when medium traction when a firm grip, low
are the main factors and maximum ground pressure and
maneuverability are maneuverability are
needed needed

Chain Pitch 125÷317.5 mm Chain Pitch 101.6÷286.5 mm Chain Pitch 125÷229 mm

Configurations & Options

Berco Shoes are available in a wide variety of configurations:
• Shoe Width
• Bolt Hole Pattern
• Mud Holes
• Clipped Corners
• Custom Made upon request
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The Widest Choice

THE WIDEST CHOICESpecial Applications

Forged Shoes In extreme applications, like in

the mining industry, products
with exceptional properties
are needed. To satisfy the needs
of these highly demanding
customers, Berco has developed
a range of specially forged
shoes. A fully automated forging
line, employing a 32.000 ton
press, followed by machining
and heat treat processes, deliver
a product with the greatest
mechanical and wear resistance
properties.
Track shoe for bulldozer with a
317.5 mm chain pitch.
Track shoe for maxi-excavators
with a 350 mm chain pitch.

Rubber & Polyurethane Shoes* Berco offers a variety of

Rubberized, Polyurethane and
Rubber clamped-on steel
shoes. Typically used on
paving machines, etc..

Cast Steel Shoes* Berco offers a variety of high

resistance cast steel shoes,
suitable for special
applications.
Self-cleaning shoes (swamp
type) to be used in sticky type
soils.
Flat type shoes for running on
concrete or hard surfaces when
high traction is not needed.

*contact us for more information

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Single Grouser Shoes

A
D
B
C

Profile code Chain pitch Linear weight A B C D

(mm) (kg/m) (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm)

B 29 A 125 9,7 135 42 35 7

B 27 135 ÷ 152,4 14,0 160 51 43 8

B 141 146 14,8 156,5 50,5 41 9,5

B 109 154 ÷ 165 17,8 180 56 47 9

B 135 160 19,6 183 58,5 49 9,5

B 166 171,45 21,8 200 58 47 11

B 69 A 169,8 ÷ 175,5 23,9 198 64,5 53 11,5

B 119 170 ÷ 171,45 26,1 200 71 58 13

B 139 175,5 25,4 199,5 67 55 12

B 107 B 190 29,1 222 69 55,5 13,5

B 117 190 34,4 222 82 67,5 14,5

B 142 202,9 ÷ 203,2 31 232,5 77 65 12

B 97 A 216 38,2 245 86,2 71,5 14,7

B 172 216 44,8 247,6 86,4 71,4 15

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A
D
B
C

Profile code Chain pitch Linear weight A B C D

(mm) (kg/m) (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm)

B 47 215,9 47,9 247,6 88 71,4 16,6

B 106 215,9 53,9 242,5 103 84 19

B 134 228,6 50,5 268 97 80 17

B 22 A 228,6 ÷ 250,83 56,6 260 96,5 77,5 19

B 143 228,6 59,5 268 99 80 19

B 103 228,6 70,4 263 116 93 23

B 125 240 64,8 285 104 84 20

B 23 A 260,35 71,4 301 108 87,5 20,5

B 144 260,35 72,8 305 113,5 93 20,5

B 153 260,35 83,8 298 123,5 101 22,5

B 149 280 ÷ 286,5 83,0 322 116 93 23

B 101 280 ÷ 286,5 88,2 320 130 106 24

B 163 317,5 103,4 370 127 102 25

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Double Grouser Shoes

A
D
C
B

Profile code Chain pitch Linear weight A B C D

(mm) (kg/m) (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm)

B 115 101,6 8,4 110 22,5 16,5 6

B 158 171,45 26,4 197 48 37 11

B 159 175,5 30,4 207 50,5 37,5 13

B 116 190 32,9 219 48 35 13

B 160 203 39,6 234 56,5 42,5 14

B 161 215,9 49 250 64,5 49,5 15

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A
D
C
B

Profile code Chain pitch Linear weight A B C D

(mm) (kg/m) (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm)

B 154 228,6 66,3 261 71 46 25

B 112 260,35 73,7 306 70,5 50 20,5

B 155 260,35 77,5 297 76 52 24

B 111 260 ÷ 264 107,6 297 90 45 45

B170 280 104,12 330 85 50 35

B 150A 280 ÷ 286,5 80,8 306 73,5 50 23,5

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Triple Grouser Shoes

A
D
C
B

Profile code Chain pitch Linear weight A B C D

(mm) (kg/m) (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm)

B 114 125 ÷ 135 13,36 145 26 18 8

B 156 135 10,87 154 17 11 6

B 17 140 ÷ 152,4 17,3 163 27 18 9

B 18 A 160 22,6 186 32 22 10

B 108 171,4 24,5 199 34,5 25 9,5

B 64 C 170 ÷ 176 29,35 203 38 25,3 12,7

B 126 190 27,4 220 35 25,5 9,5

B 129 190 28,9 217,5 36 26 10

B 110 190 32,6 222,5 40,5 28 12,5

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A
D
C

Profile code Chain pitch Linear weight A B C D

B

(mm) (kg/m) (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm)

B 130 A 203,2 35,46 240 38,5 26,5 12

B 19 D 203,2 40,87 240 41,5 26,5 15

B 146 216 40,28 247 47 36 11

B 168 216 45,1 254,5 50 37 13

B 174 216 ÷ 228,6 49,1 254,5 52 37 15

B 120 216 ÷ 228,6 48,0 253 47 30,5 16,5

B 169 216 ÷ 228,6 55,09 254,5 55 37 18

B 88 228,6 69,8 266 60 30 30

B 95 215,9 55,69 245 49 26,5 22,5

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Adding Value to Our Products

Adding value to Your Business

3D modeling of a die for track shoe 3D modeling of a swamp type shoe 3D modeling of clipped corners and mud holes

Making a Superior Product

It all begins in the design stage, Reliability Test on components
Berco Research & (ex. rollers) are carried out to
Development engineers determine life and performance
employ state of the art in a variety of field applications.
computer design. The use of
3D modeling and finite element Artificial Intelligence and
analysis (FEM) allow us to Vision techniques are currently
design and evaluate a being developed to
component before it is built. automatically inspect 100% of
Rapid prototyping
components. This reduces
Our Rapid Prototyping defects (ex. after forging or
enables Berco’s engineers to heat treatment) attributable to
optimize a design before manufacturing to almost zero.
spending money in tooling.
Huge efforts are also devoted
Berco Metallurgy Laboratory to the development of
employs advanced machines New Materials and
such as an electron microscope improvement of the
with microanalysis, a Heat Treating Processes, to
spectrophotometer, tribometers guarantee longer product life
for wear tests, MTS presses for and Superior Products.
static and fatigue tests on
materials and components. Having supplied leading OEMs
Electron microscope with
microanalysis for decades, Berco’s
Photo-elasticity and strain Engineers and product
gauge techniques are specialists can help you design
commonly used for stress and and manufacture the right
fatigue analysis on individual undercarriage, using high tech
and assembled components. software, tools and expertise.
Berco can also help you reduce
Stress analysis at extreme development and engineering
temperatures (-70°C ÷ 250°C) time, tooling expenses and
are also carried out. facility costs. Berco Adds
Value not only to our products
but also to Your Business.

Stress analysis at extreme

temperatures
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State of the Art Production

State of the Art Components

With a capacity of over 85,000 ton of finished product the

Berco Track Shoes Department manufactures more than
6,000,000 shoes per year. From the central raw material
warehouse the steel bars are transferred to one of the
automatic cutting & punching stations. Further operations
include holes chamfering and/or corner clipping.
Semi-finished shoes are then automatically palletized
and transported either to the intermediate warehouse
Raw material warehouse
or directly to the heat treatment furnace for heating,
quenching and stress relieving. Sand blasting and painting
follow before finished shoes are palletized ready for
delivery. Final inspections of the finished products
guarantees the Total Quality of all components.

Automated Processes Heat Treated

Automatic Quality to Treat You Even Better
The production process is fully Quality materials and state-of- Cutting and punching
automated and computer art manufacturing are not
controlled via a Computer enough to guarantee the quality
Manufacturing Technology of the finished products.
system. This guarantees highly That’s why the track shoes heat
reliable processes and constant treated in a tunnel furnace
quality of the products. where all process parameters
(time, temperature gradients,
The Right Product quenching temperature, etc.)
at The Right Time are constantly monitored Heat treatment tunnel furnace
A vast variety of raw materials online. Through hardening and
and flexible manufacturing give tempering processes ensure
the competitive advantage of excellent mechanical properties
short lead times while matching and superior wear resistance
your specific need. for longer product life.
That’s what we also call
Customer Satisfaction.
Painting

Automated palletizing
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We Care

Customer Service Leadership in

Environmental Development
We have a large dealer network
covering 70 countries in the Not only do we care about our
world. They have been in customers supplying quality
business for decades, they products manufactured under
know the business and they ISO 9001 certified processes,
know it from their customers’ but also we care about the
point of view. They understand Environment.
customers’ needs and they
know that their success is tied to Since Jan 2000 Berco is
their customers’ successes. ISO 14001 certified and has
adopted Environmental
We support our dealers with our Procedures throughout the entire
professional sales force. We manufacturing process. We have
train them, we provide them an Environmental Strategy and
with the right marketing tools we continuously check on the
and advanced technological progress made toward the set
systems. We have developed a Objectives.
computer based integrated
system BOPIS (Berco Online Getting More out of Less.
Product Information System) Reduction of energy consumption,
enabling a dealer technician to improved use of materials and
use a laptop computer from the minimization of waste, allows for a
field to consult our database lower impact on the environment.
and easily find the right answer. We have given preference to
environmentally friendly
We back you, wherever you transportation like trains and boats
are. We work with our dealers to and we have begun redesigning
establish a parts and service our packaging in order to use
presence near you, in order to recyclable materials. We have
always have the right product at changed our painting processes
the right time in the right place. and now use environmentally
It is customer satisfaction that friendly water-based paint, with a
has built our Berco Track reduction in the amount of
Record. pollutant emissions. We have
adopted a closed loop cooling
system that reuses the water from
our heat treatment processes
instead of emitting it into the
environment.
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Leader in Quality

Leader in the Environment

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01003.WR428GB00D Published by Berco Communications Dept.

ISO 9001 Cert. n. 0029/5

ISO 14001 Cert. n. 0009A/3

All manufacturers’s names, numbers, symbols and descriptions are used for reference purposes only.
All parts listed are of Berco original production.
The specifications and processes described in this brochure are subject to change without notice

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