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Spanish This article highlights ten of the world’ s leading metal shredder manufacturers, each with its own unique expertise in designing and producing advanced shredding technology. Whether processing steel drums, aluminum scrap or mixed metal scrap, these manufacturers offer a range of metal shredders designed to increase efficiency in the recycling industry.
1. Zato
Country: Italy
Zatos has been a company specializing in the manufacture of metal recycling equipment for over 20 years, offering a wide range of custom metal shredding solutions, from pre-shearers to twin-shaft shears.
Zato offers a comprehensive range of shredders for the efficient processing of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. The Blue Shark FP is capable of processing a wide range of different types of metal materials. The Blue Shark CS is an industrial pre-shredder that processes light and mixed household waste, appliances, etc. The Blue Devil is also a pre-shredder that excels at processing large and mixed waste, suitable for applications involving end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) and other heavy waste. The use of the Blue Devil can significantly increase the efficiency of downstream shredding operations.
2. Lindemann
Country: Germany
Lindemann Metal Recycling is an engineering company that focuses on the development and production of mechanical equipment for the metal recycling industry.
Lindemann mainly has two shredders specially designed for metal shredding. Lindemann ZZ Power Zerdirator and Lindemann EtaRip Pre-Shredder.
Lindemann ZZ Power Zerdirator can shred metal waste into dense and small pieces.
Lindemann EtaRip Pre-Shredder excels in shredding materials such as scrap vehicles (ELVs) and other metal bundles.
3. Franklin Miller
Country: United States
Franklin Miller Inc. is an industry leader with over 100 years of experience specializing in size reduction technologies, including crushers, shredders, wastewater treatment systems, and more.
Franklin Miller offers the TASKMASTER® series of dual-shaft metal shredders, which excel at processing metal types such as steel drums, sheet metal, scrap metal, aluminum scrap, and more.
4. BCA Industries
Country: United States
Founded in 1998, BCA Industries specializes in the design, manufacture and installation of industrial shredders and recycling systems.
BCA Industries’ E1000ST Hydraulic Shear Shredder is a mobile metal shredder that uses hydraulic shearing technology to shred metal materials. In addition, BCA also offers a range of heavy-duty stationary shredders, such as the ES2000 Series and Triplus®.
5. Shred-Tech
Country: Canada
Shred-Tech specializes in the design and manufacture of mobile and stationary shredding machinery for a variety of waste reduction and recycling applications.
Shred-Tech offers a range of industrial shredders designed specifically for aluminum recycling. Available in dual-shaft and quad-shaft shredder types, these shredders are ideal for the initial shredding of aluminum from a variety of sources, including cans, bottles, buildings, appliances, vehicles, and more.
Focusing on shredding strength, these shredders offer light (up to 1 ton per hour), medium (1-3 tons per hour), and heavy (over 3 tons per hour) throughput capacities to easily shred aluminum flakes into easily manageable scrap.
6. UNTHA
Country: Austria
Untha is a company specializing in the design and manufacture of industrial shredders, providing reliable shredding solutions to serve the fields of waste treatment, volume reduction and material recovery.
UNTHA has three series of shredders, XR, ZR, and RS, available for metal recycling.
Among them, the Xmobil-e has a mobile function that increases the flexibility of the processing site.
The RS series includes four-axis shredders, which are ideal for applications that require a definite and uniform particle size of less than 200 mm. It can be used to separate precious metals, scrap aluminum and light scrap steel, Metal turning and milling chips. The RS30/40 shredders are designed for general purpose recycling applications.
7. LEFORT
Country: Belgium
Lefort is a company founded in 1947 that specializes in the design and manufacture of rugged and reliable machines, including presses, shears and shredders, for the metal recycling industry.
Most of the metal shredders offered by Lefort are heavy-duty machines designed for high-capacity shredding and capable of processing large volumes of metal scrap. Among them, Lefort Trax has the ability to move, which can greatly reduce the handling work.
8. Granutech-Saturn Systems
Country: United States
Granutech-Saturn Systems specializes in the design, manufacture and supply of industrial recycling equipment, including heavy-duty shredders, hammer mills, crushers, wood processors, mills and grinders.
Granutech-Saturn Systems emphasizes the versatility and efficiency of its shredding solutions, producing shredders suitable for non-ferrous and ferrous scrap recycling.
Granutech produces four models of Saturn Dual-Shaft Shredder, Saturn Quad-Shaft Shredder, Saturn Grizzly Series Grinders, and Saturn RotoGrind Shredder for shredding of non-ferrous metals.
For ferrous metals, Saturn Dual-Shaft Shredder and Saturn Quad-Shaft Shredder can be used for shredding.
9. Shengzhong Shredder
Country: China
Déchiqueteur Shengzhong is a technology innovation enterprise focusing on the research and development, production and sales of recycling machinery.
Shengzhong Shredder produces three types of metal shredders: Small Double Shaft Shredder, Heavy Duty Double Shaft Shredder, Heavy Duty Four Shaft Shredder. Among them, the heavy duty shredder has the characteristics of high torque and low speed operation, which can effectively crush large metal waste such as car doors and oil drums.
10. ZERMA
Country: Germany
ZERMA focuses on the research and development and production of plastic refining and recycling equipment, and has become a world-leading manufacturer in this field. In addition, ZERMA also provides solutions for metal shredding.
ZERMA has XS series single-shaft shredders, ZSS series double-shaft shredders, and ZRS series four-shaft shredders. The ZRS series four-shaft shredder is designed for large-scale metal recycling, with powerful motors and heavy-duty structures to withstand harsh recycling environments.
