Everything You Need To Know About Industrial Cable Granulators

If your company is sending conductive metals such as aluminum and copper to the landfill rather than recycling your waste wire cables, then this is a complete waste of natural resources and your business is throwing money away. Yes, it is true that storing and recycling metal wire is a hassle many companies would prefer not to deal with at all. However, it is also a practice to be avoided.

Thankfully, to resolve the hassle factor and encourage the recycling of these valuable metals, machines called cable granulators were invented.

To better understand what cable granulators are and how they can help your company, here are the answers to some common questions.

What Are Cable Granulators?

As their name hints, cable granulators take wire cables and mechanically grind them into small granulated pieces of metal. The resultant metal granules can then be easily hauled off for recycling. Often companies will sell the granules to a metal scrap company as a minor source of income.

What Sizes Do Cable Granulators Come in?

Cable granulators come in various different sizes and capacities from those used in industrial environments that are capable of grinding up large radiators all the way down to tiny machines used in automotive garages to grind defective or damaged wire harnesses.

In addition to granulators designed to grind wire cable, there are also specialty granulators used to granulate:

• plastic
• rubber
• metal foil
• grease-contaminated cables
• armored cable

In addition, there are also special machines designed to granulate very fine capillary wires all the way up to massive industrial cables and plumbing pipes.

How Much Material Will a Granulator Process Each Hour?

How much material cable granulators are capable of grinding per hour depends on the machine's size, power load, and screen holes. Larger machines operating with a large power load will granulate many times more material than a smaller machine plugged into a public utility power outlet.

What Should You Look for When Purchasing an Industrial Cable Granulator?

Things to look for in high-quality industrial cable grinders include:

• simple to change screens
• simple to change flying and bed knives
• high-carbon steel cases
• high-quality bearings
• thick-wall plumber blocks

In addition, to keep your employees safe and protect their hands from injury, it's important to purchase cable grinders with maximum safety features installed on them and clear instructions for operation.

In conclusion, once your company's cable granulators are installed and functional, then you can recover waste aluminum and copper metals to be sent out for recycling instead of disposal. This is better for the environment and better for your bottom line as well.