Walk through a well-run recycling yard, and you will notice the machines work in sequence, each one preparing material for the next. Hassell’s supplies equipment for several points along that chain, and the pre-shredder is the one people ask about most.
1. Intake And Feeding
Everything starts at the gate. Material handlers fitted with the right grab unload vehicles and sort the pile before feeding whatever comes next. Get this stage wrong and the rest of the line either starves or floods. If your fleet lacks the right machine for the job, material handler hire can fill the gap while you decide what to buy.
2. The Pre Shredder Machine
Bulky or mixed material rarely suits the machines further down the line. A pre shredder machine reduces it to manageable sizes first. The PMG range from Guidetti is built for continuous heavy-duty use, which is exactly what a busy yard needs from the first step in its line.
Is a pre shredder for scrap the right call? It suits many yards where bulky or mixed material arrives and needs breaking down before further processing. Whether it fits yours depends on what comes through the gate, so describe your material before choosing a model.
3. Granulation
Once material is a manageable size, cable granulators take over. They break mixed cable down and separate the metal from the insulation, leaving a high-purity product ready for resale. The Sincro range from Guidetti covers small volumes and high-throughput operations alike, so the size of your yard need not rule it out. Yards that handle plenty of cable sometimes add a cable stripper as well, since each machine suits different cable types and volumes.
Why the order matters
A line is only as quick as its slowest stage. If the pre-shredder stalls, the granulator sits idle. If the granulator is undersized, material piles up behind the shredder. That is why regular servicing matters: blades and hydraulic components degrade gradually, and throughput drops without any single obvious failure.
Planning a new line or filling a gap in an existing one? Ring the team at Hassell’s on 01782 644299 or email sales@hassells.com, and tell them what comes through your gate.
