Health & Safety
[PRAB's Metal Turnings Shredder enhances workplace safety by efficiently reducing the volume of metal scrap. This not only frees up valuable storage space but also minimizes handling risks, creating a cleaner and safer environment for your team.
Low Maintenance
PRAB Metal Turnings Shredders are engineered for reliability and require minimal upkeep, helping you reduce downtime and maintenance costs. Built to last, these shredders deliver consistent performance, keeping your operations running smoothly year after year.
Heavy-Duty
PRAB Metal Turnings Shredders are built to withstand the toughest industrial environments. Designed for high-demand operations, these shredders handle heavy loads with ease, ensuring your facility can process metal scrap efficiently, day in and day out.
Value
Shredding metal turnings with a PRAB shredder increases the value of your scrap by producing smaller, more manageable chips that recyclers prefer. This cost-effective solution not only reduces chip size but also lowers energy consumption with its low-speed, high-torque operation, maximizing your return on investment.

Industrial Metal Scrap Shredders reduce wads of Metal Turnings to Flowable Chips.

Optimize your scrap metal recycling process with PRAB’s metal turnings shredders. Our industrial shredders efficiently reduce light to moderate wads of metal turnings into flowable chips, significantly increasing the value of your scrap metal. By shredding metal turnings at the source, our shredders create safer work environments, reduce storage space, and enhance recycling efficiency. Whether you need a stand-alone unit or an integrated system, PRAB’s metal shredding machines are the ideal solution for all types of metalworking chip processing.

Metalworking Chips Shredders

Use PRAB’s metalworking chips shredders to manage bulky metal shavings with ease. Designed to handle long and coiled metal turnings, our shredders reduce volume, create shovel-grade chips, and make scrap metal more manageable for recycling. PRAB’s shredders ensure your scrap metal is ready for scrap metal recyclers, increasing its value and reducing your overall scrap handling costs.

PRAB Metal Turnings Shredders – Key Advantages:

  • Volume reduction: Shred metal turnings up to 4 times at the source
  • Improved safety: Enhance workplace safety by minimizing metal scrap hazards
  • Storage efficiency: Save space with compact, flowable chips
  • Higher scrap value: Maximize the return from your scrap metal with high-quality shredding
  • Custom solutions: Available as stand-alone units or integrated with chip processing systems

Partner with PRAB, the industry leader in metalworking chip shredding equipment, to streamline your operations and boost your recycling efforts. Our team of experts is ready to deliver solutions that meet your specific needs.

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PRAB’s Industrial Metal Shredders are available as system-integrated units for use with chip processing/metal scrap removal systems or as stand-alone units for volume reduction at the source (see options tab for more details). Some of the other features of this unit include:

  • The low-speed operation generates less heat and increases safety.
  • Low noise level for a quieter work environment.
  • Low speed/high torque reduces energy costs.
  • Friction clutch protects drivetrain components.
  • Dual counter-rotating shafts with cast cutter disc and spacer combinations produce shearing, ripping, and tearing action.
  • Cutter discs and spacers are made of case-hardened steel.
  • The automatic reversing feature allows cutters to reverse.
  • Externally mounted, standard T-frame motor.
  • Shafts secured by double-bearing housings.
  • Bearings are non-self-aligning to prevent shaft flexing.
  • Auto lube systems for automatic greasing of bearings.
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Auto Lube Systems | Prab.com
Auto lube systems are designed to automatically supply a small quantity of clean grease or oil to bearings, improving bearing performance and eliminating the maintenance required by manual greasing.

PRAB’s Industrial Metal Shredders are available as integrated systems for metal chip processing/scrap removal systems or as stand-alone units for volume reduction.

System-Integrated Shredder (SMD)

PRAB’s System-integrated (SMD) line of industrial metal scrap shredders is an efficient solution for reducing the volume of ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

Units are integrated into complete metal chip processing/scrap metal recycling systems to reduce scrap size before separating cutting fluid from the chips and sending them to recycle. The quiet, energy-saving dual shafts operate by ripping and tearing turnings into manageable, shovel-grade chips for further processing. They are available in 6 standard sizes.

SMD12: 12″ (20 cm)
SMD18: 18″ (46 cm)
SMD24: 24″ (61 cm)
SMD30: 30″ (76 cm)
SMD36: 36″ (122 cm)
SMD48: 48″ (122 cm)

Stand-Alone Horizontal Axis Shredder (HAS)

PRAB’s stand-alone Horizontal Axis Shredder (HAS) is a cost-effective solution for metal scrap recycling to reduce volumes of ferrous metals and non-ferrous metal turnings machine-side. The quiet, energy-saving dual shafts operate by ripping and tearing metal turnings into manageable, shovel-grade chips for further processing and scrap collection.

Horizontal Axis Shredder | Prab.com

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