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Some jobs ask more of a shredder than any general-purpose machine can give. Whole refrigerators, solidified purge blocks, tires, pallets, bales, drums, barrels, pipes, and

When a recycling operation deals with material that varies a lot, different shapes, different sizes, mixed streams that change through the day, the shredder needs

Some scrap is not especially hard to cut, it is just big and bulky. IBCs, wheelie bins, plastic pallets, large drums, these are voluminous parts

A tire is one of the most stubborn things to recycle. It is tough, it is abrasive, and it hides steel belting and bead wire

A large diameter plastic pipe is one of the hardest things to recycle, not because the plastic is difficult, but because the shape is. A

Every injection and blow molding operation makes them. Purge blocks from color and material changes, solidified lumps from line cleaning, head waste, the dense cakes

Extrusion scrap does not look like injection molding scrap, and it does not grind like it either. A run of PVC pipe, a length of

There is a point where a standard granulator stops being the right tool. Thick-walled parts, extruder purge, heavy rejected components, abrasive or contaminated material, the

Some scrap is too bulky for a granulator but you still want granulator-quality regrind at the end. The usual answer is a two-stage line: a

Not every shop needs a soundproofed enclosure, and not every shop needs an industrial heavy duty granulator built for around-the-clock purge processing. A lot of

Here is a scenario that surprises a lot of first-time granulator buyers. They pick a well-built machine, get it installed, start feeding blow-molded bottles into

A granulator is a precision tool. It wants material that is already a reasonable size, and it cuts it into clean regrind. But a lot