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RUF Briquetters create dense, high-quality bricks out of wood, metal, and sludge that can be reused, recycled, or sold.

Best Uses for Metal Shredders 

A modern metal shredder (sometimes called a &#;crusher&#;) turns large-sized pieces of metal into smaller pieces, reducing the overall volume. Metal shredders can operate as stand-alone solutions. Alternatively, metal shredders can be integrated into production processes to prepare the recovered raw materials for further processes, like briquetting. Think of metal shredders as the middle-man between a manufacturing process and briquetting.

Benefits of metal shredding machines

Metal filings and pieces are worth little. So savvy plant managers look for ways to make the most from their production waste. 

Metal shredding machines: 

• Reduce size and volume of metal scrap
• Prepare metals for briquetting 
• Integrate into existing processes
• Make waste cleanup and removal easier  
• Save time 
• Can run automatically 

Metal shredders have been proving their worth for many decades now.  

How is a metal shredder different from a metal briquetting machine? 

A metal briquetting machine takes shavings, filings, or metal scrap and compresses them into dense, high-quality bricks that can be reused or sold. The raw materials for the briquetting process could come directly from a production process or from a metal shredder.  

Like metal shredders, briquetters can be integrated into an existing production process easily.   

The demand for metal briquetting is growing&#;and because of that, we&#;re getting more questions about metal shredding machines, too.

How metal shredders and metal briquetters work together 

Shredding and briquetting are complementary processes. 

Metal shredders reduce volume. 

Metal briquetters create value.  

Shredders and briquetters can be designed to operate together and integrated into an existing production line. This duo smashes and saves&#;streamlining volume reduction and producing a sellable product.

Do you need a briquetting machine if you have a metal shredding machine?

Shredders can reduce the volume of material, but they can&#;t help you squeeze value from it. Metal shredders certainly make waste removal easier, because there&#;s less of it to dispose of. But briquetting is where you can see significant value. 

Compressing shredded metal into a high-quality briquette suddenly makes it appealing to scrap dealers. Briquettes are sellable, easy to manage, and best of all, they funnel money back into your operations. A shredder alone can&#;t achieve this kind of quality and value.

Can you briquette without a metal shredder? 

The short answer is yes. If your operations produce metal pieces small enough to meet RUF&#;s briquetting criteria, you won&#;t need an extra piece of machinery. 

How to use both metal shredders and metal briquetters

Many manufacturers can benefit from shredder-briquetter combinations. At RUF, we partner with a respected metal shredder company to design and integrate metal shredders and briquetters into customer operations. We can make it simpler to incorporate this duo into your operations.  

The demand for briquetters and shredders is only increasing, so if you&#;re curious, now is a great time to start a conversation with a RUF expert.

Machine used for reducing the size of scrap metal

A scrap metal shredder, also sometimes referred to as a metal scrap shredder, is a machine used for reducing the size of scrap metal. Scrap metal shredders come in many different variations and sizes.

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Some examples of scrap metal materials that are commonly shredded are:

Car crushers are large machines that turn a car into a large bucket of scrap steel and the rest of the car into non-ferrous materials, plastics and waste called automotive shredder residue. The glass, fabric, plastic, and all other non-ferrous materials are separated by eddy current magnets in place of heavy media separation. The non-ferrous materials may be referred to as "zorba".[1] Often the profit from the non-ferrous materials covers the operating cost for the shredder.

When a metal shredder starts, the material enters into the tear box through the feeding system. The tear blade is loaded on the box. The material is torn into small pieces through the tear, extrusion and shear of the tear blade, and is discharged from the lower part of the box.[2]

Metal scrap recycling, also called secondary metal processing, is a large industry that processes, in the U.S. alone, 56 million tons of scrap iron and steel (including 10 million tons of scrap automobiles), 1.5 million tons of scrap copper, 2.5 million tons of scrap aluminum, 1.3 million tons of scrap lead, 300,000 tons of scrap zinc and 800,000 tons of scrap stainless steel, and smaller quantities of other metals, on a yearly basis.[3]

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Scrap metal shredders can be equipped with different types of cutting systems: horizontal shaft, vertical shaft, single-shaft, two-shaft, three-shaft and four-shaft cutting systems. These shredder designs can be high speed, medium speed and sometimes slow-speed systems, they always include hammermills of a vertical and horizontal shaft design, and can also include in contrast to hammer mills slow speed technology which are also used to process or shred metal and plastic and other waste materials encountered in the scrap metal industry.

The largest scrap metal shredders in the world often have 10,000 horsepower (hp) and are made by a wide range of companies. The designs originate from the patent applications of the Newell Group and the Williams Group for auto shredding or scrap metal shredding.[citation needed] One example is the 9,200 hp shredder from the Lynxs group at the Sims plant at the mouth of the River Usk in Newport Wales. This Lynxs shredder can process 450 cars per hour.[4] However, the Lynxs shredders are not unique in this high hp range design. The Schnitzer Steel group installed their own custom made 10,000 hp unit in , and there are many Newell Shredders that have these high hp designs. A 9,000 horsepower Mega Shredder at Sims Metal Management's Claremont Terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey processes 4,000 tons of metal a day.[5]

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An engineered enclosure may be used to contain noise and dust.[6] In , the California Department of Toxic Substances Control requested public comment on plans to implement enforceable operating requirements for scrap metal shredders.[7]

In Houston, the carcinogenic substance hexavalent chromium was identified as an emission from a scrap recycling facility.[8]

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