Extruder purging, material transition lumps, and thick-walled plastic start-up blocks represent one of the most frustrating bottlenecks in modern plastics compounding and manufacturing plants. Solid purge cakes discharged from large compounding extruders or pipe die heads can weigh anywhere from 10 kg to over 80 kg. Because high-molecular-weight polymers like HDPE, polypropylene, ABS, and filled engineering plastics possess extreme impact toughness, processing them with conventional high-speed granulators is notoriously unreliable. Standard granulators experience catastrophic drive-belt slippage, shattered blades, rotor shaft bending, and continuous motor trips caused by localized kinetic shock loads.<\/p>\n
To eliminate manual band-sawing, hazardous flame-cutting, and equipment breakdowns, our Heavy-Duty Single-Shaft Shredding & Granulating System provides a robust, two-stage size reduction architecture engineered specifically for dense industrial polymer purges and bulky plastic scrap. The system integrates a low-speed, high-torque single-shaft hydraulic shredder (WT Series), a magnetic de-ironing belt conveyor, a precision secondary granulator (PC Series), and a closed-loop pneumatic cyclone dedusting station into a continuous, automated recycling cell.<\/p>\n
During operation, massive purge blocks are loaded directly into the shredder hopper via forklift or tipping skip. An intelligent, load-sensing hydraulic pusher ram steadily advances the scrap against a heavy, counter-bored solid rotor spinning at 60\u201380 RPM. Hardened, four-way rotatable concave square knives (DC53 \/ D2 tool steel) peel off smooth polymer chips against reversible stator bed knives without generating high friction or thermal melting. If the cutting resistance approaches motor overload thresholds, the PLC automatically retracts the ram, oscillates the position, and resumes feeding with zero operator intervention.<\/p>\n
Pre-shredded 30\u201350 mm chips discharge smoothly onto an inclined cleated belt conveyor equipped with a high-intensity neodymium overband magnetic separator, which extracts accidental tramp iron, broken bolts, or metal inserts before material enters the secondary granulator. The secondary heavy-duty granulator, operating with a staggered multi-knife rotor, cleanly shears the material down to uniform 6 mm to 10 mm flakes. A high-pressure extraction blower pulls the flakes through the granulator bottom screen under negative pressure, minimizing fines and conveying the regrind to a cyclone separator and dust-filter bagging station ready for immediate reuse in compounding lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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