Briquetting Aluminum

Industry: Primary Materials
Application: Sawing
Material: Aluminum
Production: Briquetter, Shredder

Situation
This customer manufactures aluminum extrusions and fabrications and product around 40,000 pounds of aluminum chips per month from their billet and finish saws and CNC machines. Chips were stored everywhere, generating an unclean environment and loss of floor space.
Solution
Hopper dumper, Shredder, screw conveyor and chip briquetter

Key Features

• Fully automatic design allows for easy operation.
• Chip volume reduced by 85%

Customer Benefits

• Tripled the price received for aluminum scrap
• Achieved 13 month payback

Outcome

• While generating about 40,000 briquettes per month and a total of over 2,000,000 to date, the system has required very little maintenance.