Partnership
The Magnificent 7: one year with Amazon DSA6
26 March 2026
26 March 2026
One year of collaboration between Amazon DSA6 and Ecobelt — and what a year, particularly these last few months as trials have proven out and momentum has gathered.
This team does not show up and accept the status quo. They challenge, they question, they improve. Their attention to detail and their commitment to data-driven decisions is exceptional, and what the DSA6 RME team has achieved in such a short time is remarkable.
A damaged 49.53m ARP belt on the empty tote line — a belt that typically lasts around six months — was due for replacement. Instead it was fitted with an ASMR™ repair patch. It is still running, and still looks like new.
Savings from primary production alone, from choosing not to replace a single belt.
Over 70 ASMR™ AnnStuMax™ repair patches installed — most fitted proactively to extend belt life rather than reactively to fix a failure.
On Bank 6, jams fell from 10.48 a day to 1.54 over six months — around 6.8 times fewer after switching to EcoGlide.
A threefold reduction in jams over two months on the #4 lines.
Direct input into a newly engineered belt that eliminates the two most common failure modes: base belt stretching, and profile splitting and cracking.
Previously lasting two to three months due to PPI wear through the weld area. All eight belts on site were replaced with AnnStuMax™ reinforced welds — all still running, the longest at 220 days.
Launched June 2025. Fourteen curves recycled, saving over £28,000. The longest repaired curve has run 235 days with zero issues, and in-situ repair cuts downtime from around four hours to just over one.
Now delivered with AnnStuMax™ integrated into the splice, eliminating split failures when tracking guides wear.
Labels had been sticking to the PU belts and causing multi-reads. A new belt type trialled at 100% availability over nine weeks.
An excessively long OEM lead time prompted an off-the-shelf trial. The micro-release surface has delivered even better performance.
DSA6 challenged Ecobelt to design a tool that eliminates the risk of dog-leg splices. The result — patent pending — has been adopted rapidly across the Amazon network and beyond.
Every one of these is a single site. Applied across a global network, the reduction in waste, the raw materials conserved, the energy not consumed and the extended life of critical assets add up to something considerable — environmentally and financially.
This is what thinking long-term looks like: acting responsibly, and choosing repair over replacement.
We are humbled to partner with Luke Fielding, Tom Binns, Brad Whitakker, Jordan Hill, Gav Crossley, Keiran French and Jake Sykes — the last on special secondment from Barnsley Council — ably led by Lewis Bromley and Jack Theakston.
What this team has achieved is now being mirrored across the Amazon network, and by clients in logistics and well beyond.
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