Material Handling Technology

Waste handlers

There is a wide variety of waste handers available for stacking and handling recyclable materials, sorting and separating recyclable materials, and safe loading of screening machines, shredders, or crushers.

Waste handlers are purpose-built material handlers for the waste handling and recycling industry, to perform high-volume material handling duties in indoor or open terrain settings.

These high-volume material handling duties may consist of unloading, sorting, size reduction, and reloading of materials in the recycling industry.

Material handler attachments

The recycling industry requires a wide range of material handler attachments for a variety of handling needs. The ease of changing out attachments on material handlers has increased, allowing for more time- and cost-efficient usage.

There are four primary material handler attachment categories to consider: magnets, crushers, shears, and grapples. Of course, combinations of attachments are also available, such as crusher magnets or magnet grapples.

Magnetic attachments

Magnetic attachments are used to lift ferrous scrap by electromagnetic force to sweep an area clean of scrap. Magnetic attachments also enable the material handler to move the small scrap particles around, a task that is significantly more challenging for other scrap handler attachments.

Crusher attachments

Crushers are often attached to material handlers to break down scrap into sizes that are easier to move around. Crusher attachments are excellent in heavy-duty material handling applications, especially when dealing with construction and demolition waste.

Shear attachments

Shear attachments in material handling applications are employed as an efficient tool for cutting scrap waste. Shear attachments are much required when dealing with metal or steel materials that require to be reduced in size and are primarily applied in scrapyards.

Grapple attachments

Scrap handling often requires transportation of oddly shaped items, for this, a grapple attachment is ideal. A grapple attachment is a hook or claw used to catch or hold something. Because of their versatility, grapple attachments can pick up almost any material depending on the type of grapple used.

Why are material handlers the right choice for recycling applications?

Material handlers are the right choice for recycling applications because they perform difficult and precise tasks in demanding environments efficiently.

As varied as the different applications and the related requirements on the machine are in the recycling industry, so reliable and versatile and these material handlers present themselves to these challenges.

Whether it be extremely dusty indoor operations or materials sorting and loading operations as part of the recycling process, material handlers impress wherever speed, precision, and robustness are called for.

This Technology Zone offers an insight into the latest innovations in material handler technology for recycling and waste management.