Hammel Recyclingtechnik Introduces Mobile Scrap Processing Plant in Germany

German-based Hammel Recyclingtechnik has introduced its newest development, what it calls the world’s first mobile scrap processing plant. The plant was first unveiled during an auto recycling show in Hohenroda, Germany in November.

According to a company press release, with this system it is possible to process a mixed basic material into a marketable end product. Raw material such as car bodies, engine blocks and aluminum bales, is shredded with the primary shredder type VB 950 DK and directly fed into the metal screen MMS 150 DK where it is separated via vibration screen and the oversized material is then discharged. The screened material falls onto an integrated vibration channel, which feeds the material to a magnet drum.

The drum, the company adds, separates the material into ferrous and nonferrous materials. The nonferrous material is transferred via discharge belt to the eddy current system, where the aluminum and shredded light fraction is separated. The ferrous material is transported to the metal fine shredder type HEM 1250 DK. The shredding rotor is equipped with eccentric disc hammers and is hydrodynamic. With the special shredding rotor and its pre-stressed screen basket, Hammel says it is possible to achieve a precise end size material, adding that it was the goal to reach an E40-classification on the European steel-scrap-list.

The complete system was demonstrated during the conference and will be tested over a longer period of time on a customer site. More information is available at www.hammel.de.