Metal Scrap Processing Equipment

PRAB delivers comprehensive metal scrap processing solutions that help you turn metal waste into value. Our metal chip processing systems reduce metal scrap volume, recover valuable fluids, and streamline recycling processes, saving haul-away costs, increasing metal scrap value, and promoting sustainable production.

Our systems separate the metal scrap from coolant fluids and produce dry, reduced-volume scrap. Spent fluids are captured for disposal or recycled for reuse using PRAB’s industry-leading fluid recycling systems.

Key Features and Benefits:

  1. Dualpak™ Briquetters

    PRAB’s Dualpak™ Briquetters are engineered for metal chip briquetting. Using dual-compression technology to create high-density metal pucks. You’ll reduce storage space by up to 90%, increase your metal scrap value by about 25%, reduce haul-away costs, and improve efficiency.

  2. Cutting Fluid Filtration & Recovery

    Our equipment excels in coolant recovery by squeezing up to 98% of cutting oils during compression. This reduces waste and optimizes fluid reuse, saving you up to 75% in new coolant purchases and contributing to environmentally responsible operations.

  3. Scrap and Fluid Management

    PRAB’s metal chip conveyors transport chips and metal turnings, efficiently and seamlessly, integrating with the coolant filtration and briquetting systems.

  4. Waste Minimization and Cost Savings

    Implementing PRAB’s fluid filtration and Industrial Wastewater treatment solutions can drastically reduce the disposal of hazardous materials, cut operational costs, and comply with stringent environmental regulations.

Why PRAB?

  • Comprehensive Systems: PRAB offers end-to-end solutions for metal chip processing, from conveyors to metal briquetters, providing the most effective scrap metal processing and coolant recovery technologies.
  • Industry-Leading Expertise: PRAB equipment is designed to meet the high standards of metalworking industries.
  • Tailored Solutions: We offer custom-configured equipment to fit specific production needs, ensuring seamless integration.

Our cost-effective systems exceed stringent environmental regulations. Learn why PRAB is the premier choice for solving complex metal chip, scrap, and metal turnings processing and industrial wastewater treatment challenges.

90%

Reduction in Metal Scrap Volume

Using a chip processing system

$212,000

Annual Oil Savings

Using a crusher/wring system

25%

Increase in Scrap Value

Using a Dualpak™ Briquetter

18 Months

Payback

Using a Dualpak™ Briquetter

Each solution is custom-built to your process and requirements.

We can only guarantee results like this because of our experience and extensive testing capabilities. Our lab is equipped with the actual equipment we recommend. Watch your material run in person or remotely. When you’re ready to start, contact us or request a material test.

Metal Chip Processing Systems

PRAB’s Dualpak™ Briquetters compact loose metal chips into high-density pucks, reducing volume by up to 90%. These briquettes recover valuable cutting fluids while optimizing space and transportation costs.

It uses two opposing hydraulic cylinders to press metal chips, loose turnings, and swarf into near-solid, dry briquettes.

  • Increase Scrap Value up to 25%
  • Reclaim up to 99% of fluids
  • Briquettes are easy to re-melt, transport, or store
  • Create high-density pucks from Aluminum, Brass, Copper, Magnesium, Steel, Stainless Steel, and Titanium

Chip System Components

PRAB’s Heavy-duty vertical axis crushers reduce the volume of turnings, enabling efficient storage and transportation while preventing issues like tangled chips that can disrupt production. Reduces scrap volume up to 90%.

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Maximize fluid recovery with our wringers/centrifuges, which efficiently separate fluids from metal scrap, reducing disposal costs and promoting environmental sustainability. Spins metal chips with over 600G's of centrifugal force, separating out fluid for recovery.

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Shred bulky turnings into manageable pieces with our metal turnings shredders, which improve material handling, reduce space requirements, and enhance the effectiveness of subsequent processes like briquetting.

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Protect your equipment with PRAB’s tramp metal separators, designed to remove unwanted metal contaminants from your chip processing systems, extending the life of your machinery. Remove bar-ends, broken tooling and other solids from chip flow to protect other metal scrap equipment. Available in 6 unique models.

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Our industrial carts and dumpers streamline material handling, providing efficient transportation of scrap to central collection points for processing. Can be integrated before or after chip processing.

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Heavy-duty conveyors move metal scrap and spent fluids quickly and automatically from point of production and through the entire scrap separation process.

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PRAB’s Dualpak™ Briquetters compact loose metal chips into high-density pucks, reducing volume by up to 90%. These briquettes recover valuable cutting fluids while optimizing space and transportation costs. Uses two opposing hydraulic cylinders to press chips, loose turnings and swarf into near solid, dry briquettes.

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Break down large bundles of scrap with PRAB’s bundle breaker, improving material flow and preventing costly downtime during processing operations. Installs in a conveyor’s in-feed hopper, where dual rotating cylinders agitate the material, tearing stringy wads of chips, turnings, and bundles apart.

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Stand-alone Chip Processing

Horizontal axis crushers efficiently process tough metal scraps into smaller, more manageable pieces, reducing storage space and transportation costs while improving recycling efficiency. These crushers are typically mounted on a stand or heavy-duty cart which fits on the discharge conveyor of a machining center.

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The horizontal screw press is ideal for dewatering metal chips and filter cakes, then compressing the loose material into briquettes, helping recover cutting fluids and minimize waste. Can be used as a stand-alone unit or in combination with the Dualpak™ Briquetter

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Break down large bundles of scrap with PRAB’s bundle breaker, improving material flow and preventing costly downtime during processing operations. Typically mounted on a stand or heavy-duty cart which fits on the discharge conveyor of a machining center.

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What do you do with all that recovered fluid?