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Metal recycling and metal shredding
The metal industry is a pioneer of the circular economy, as old products are collected, shredded and reused as a valuable raw material. The shredding of metals, whether aluminum, copper or steel, places high demands on modern recycling plants. Metal waste is abrasive, heavy and bulky, but with the right shredder it can be processed and recycled efficiently.
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WEIMA metal shredders reliably shred a wide variety of metal waste. Typical applications include punching waste, beverage cans, profiles, milling and sawdust, as well as aluminum scrap and cables. WEIMA offers robust solutions for shredding metal waste from the waste, automotive and electrical industries, helping to reintegrate valuable raw materials into the production cycle.
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Metal shredding as part of the recycling cycle
What makes WEIMA metal shredders so special?
WEIMA’s metal shredders are optimized for metal scraps such as aluminium, copper and brass. These robust machines are ideal for industrial use. They reliably shred metal waste. This reduces the volume is considerably reduced, which makes storage and transportation easier. WEIMA machines enable companies to increase their efficiency. At the same time you save costs on metal waste disposal.
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Customer applications: Metal shredding with WEIMA
Practical examples of WEIMA's metal recycling solutions
Solutions for your production waste: Efficient shredding of waste
WEIMA shredders shred production waste from the metalworking industry, such as metal chips, punching waste, aluminum, magnesium, copper, brass and bronze. Also Bulky materials such as profiles, cans or milling waste are reduced to a uniform size. This facilitates storage, transportation and further processing. The machines increase efficiency and added value in the company. They reduce the volume of waste, lower disposal costs and promote the recycling of materials.
"Did you know that the recycling rate for aluminum beverage cans is over 99%? And we are actively contributing to it."
Iwan Plet
Business Development | Metal at WEIMA
Metal shavings: hidden potential for your company
WEIMA shredders offer customized solutions for the Shredding of aluminum chips and milling waste from CNC processing. Our machines ensure precise shredding, even with large quantities of chips, resulting in a uniform material size that is ideal for briquetting and recycling. Efficient volume reduction simplifies transportation and storage, and valuable raw materials can be fed back into the production cycle, increasing sustainability and efficiency.
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From the metal industry
Under power? WEIMA shreds electronic waste
WEEE waste is growing rapidly, at around ten million tons a year. Less than a third is recycled, even though many appliances contain toxic substances. WEIMA shredders allow appliances such as fans, telephones and televisions to be shredded efficiently. Whether single-shaft or four-shaft shredders – WEIMA ensures that e-waste enters the recycling cycle safely and in an environmentally friendly manner and that valuable raw materials are recovered.
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Briquetting: More than just volume reduction?
Shredding metal waste is the first step in the recycling process. This produces a homogeneous piece of material. In loose form, this is not optimally suited for the melting process. It often results in high burn-off rates. The solution is briquetting. Due to the Pressing the crushed metals into briquettes further reduces the volume. At the same time, coolants, lubricants and residual oils can be recovered. In addition Briquetting increases the resale value of the material. This makes the recycling process much more efficient.
Abrasive sludge: your chance for greater efficiency
In the metalworking industry, grinding sludge is produced during grinding and drilling processes. This sludge contains valuable metal particles, oil and emulsions. With WEIMA grinding sludge presses, this sludge is efficiently dewatered and compacted. This allows Cooling lubricants recovered. This saves disposal costs and conserves resources – an environmentally friendly and economically viable solution
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Future-oriented metal recycling: De Rooy relies on WEIMA solutions for briquetting and dewatering
The collaboration between De Rooy, Nuenen in the Netherlands and WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbH shows how the circular economy can be implemented in metal processing. They worked together on a solution to not only transport and dispose of metal waste such as grinding sludge and aluminium chips in a space-saving and cost-effective manner, but also to convert it into valuable, reusable materials.
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Fully automated: Beer can rejects emptying and pressing at Fiddlehead Brewing Company, USA
With a PUEHLER E.200 drainage press, the American brewery Fiddlehead Brewing Company optimizes its recycling processes at the canning line.
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