Abstract: A method for packaging hot melt adhesive, in particular sticky hot melt adhesive or substances that are tacky at ambient temperature as a material to be packaged in a plastic film, comprising the steps: (a) fusing the material to be packaged; (b) metering the fused material onto a cooling belt in portions and cooling the material to below its fusion point; (c) removing the material portions from the cooling belt, and (d) packaging the material portions in the plastic film, the cooling belt having a textile carrier with threads which form heat conducting threads with which heat from the one flat side of the cooling belt can be transferred to the opposite side, and the carrier being embedded into a polymer matrix such that the heat conducting threads are covered as far as possible, at least on the side coming into contact with the material to be packaged.