Streamlining your metal scrap processing and fluid recovery can enhance efficiency, lower costs, and increase profitability. However, depending on the volume and types of metals and coolants involved, you will need the right tools for the task.
Okay, but what does that mean?
It means that with the right equipment strategy tailored to meet your operation’s specific needs, you can achieve significant savings that elevate your bottom line and mitigate expenses on new materials, critical fluids, and labor.
Strategic Savings with Scrap
It’s no secret that today’s economic climate poses challenges to manufacturers. One way to better navigate these conditions is to improve profitability by reducing costs on new purchases and labor while maximizing the value of metal scrap and recycling critical fluids for reuse.
However, you don’t want to implement such a process without a strategy. That is one way in which equipment, material, and volume misalignment can occur, resulting in additional expenses, more waste, and unsafe work environments.
Effective metal scrap processing is different. To guarantee optimal performance, the equipment must be tailored to your operation and material, which is made possible by the right strategic investment. That is where you can achieve the best value and mitigate expenses with significant material and fluid savings.
All those loose metal turnings, large scrap bundles, and critical fluids that collect on the shop floor during your process are profits waiting to happen – but only if they are converted for recycling and reuse. This begins with matching shredders or crushers to your scrap characteristics, creating flowable chips that can then be processed to save – and make – money.
Shred It, Wring It
Shredders, such as those included in PRAB’s Shredder/Wringer Chip Processing System, are low-maintenance systems that reduce the high volumes of bulky turnings into workable chip piles for easier transfer to the next stage of processing, such as a briquetter, while separating key fluids and cutting oils for reuse.
Crush It, Wring It
For other volumes, a Crusher/Wringer Chip Processing System compresses denser materials into shovel-grade chips while reclaiming up to 99% of coolants and cutting fluids, which can then be recycled for reuse, dramatically reducing haul-away costs and new fluid purchases.
To maximize effectiveness, your chip processing system should integrate with your conveying and fluid filtration infrastructure to generate the highest returns and largest expense savings.
Use the Force…of Gravity
Considering how critical effective metal scrap management and fluid recycling are to the bottom line, a proven solution like a diagonal-shaft wringer/centrifuge is an operation’s dependable wingman.
These versatile and robust systems use a whopping 600Gs of centrifugal force to spin fluid from metal chips, yielding some impressive results:
PRAB manufactures metal chip wringers/centrifuges designed in various configurations to integrate into any space and material flow, and efficiently handle aluminum, brass, cast iron, steel, stainless steel, and other types of metal scrap. Each diagonal-shaft wringer is purpose-built for durability, minimal maintenance, and to meet your operation’s unique metal scrap and fluid recovery volumes.
The results? Maximum coolant and cutting oil recovery, higher scrap value, safer workspaces, and significant operational savings.
With more than 70 years of industry experience and engineering expertise, PRAB is here to help manufacturers navigate operational, environmental, and economic challenges with custom-built equipment that enhances efficiency, reduces expenses, and ensures compliance, all backed by 24/7 support from a team dedicated to helping your operation succeed.
Contact a PRAB expert to learn more about how we can meet your needs and optimize your production.
