Used Beverage Cans is a common scrap commodity for recycling, it is mostly aluminum fetching a high price and usually is packed in compressed bales.

A recycling company needs a UBC shredder to de-bale, disintegrate and at the same time also shred it into at least half pieces for easy sorting, cleaning and smelting efficiency. The shredded pieces can be further sized or mixed with higher grades to give uniform standard ingots depending on the use of the same.

Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) is a mostly a liquid container made primarily of aluminum. It is widely used for packaging carbonated soft drinks, fruit and vegetable juice, tea, sports drinks and beer.

UBC Scrap must be free from excessive dirt, liquid, other scrap metals, lids, foil, plastic, paper, glass and other non-metallic items for be recycled.

Small-to-medium-sized scrap dealers accept used beverage cans from individuals or businesses.

These dealers consolidate volumes of UBCs and sell them to larger scrap dealers who in turn bale and ship them to end users or brokers.

The PROKATO UBC Shredder is for these large quantity scrap buyers and processors, who need to work on huge bales and get tons of materials processed each day.

Our shredding machines are able to give the desired results consistently.

UBC Shredder and magnetic separator system

PROKATO UBC shredder is one new model machine that our company technicians developed based on international advanced technology, which can not only improve the production capacity and crushing efficiency, but also expand the application scope.

Application

PROKATO UBC shredder can be used for all kinds of waste UBC, drink cans, beer cans, Red Bull cans, metal bottles, paint barrels, waste sheet iron, tin cans ETC, the cans can be broken into mass particles, which can reduce transportation cost, improve melting speed in the feeding for the UBC scraps.

Production flow chart

Forklift → Feeding hopper → Shredder → Dust collecting → Conveying belt → Magnetic separator → Conveying → Sorting and next process!

Features of UBC Shredder and magnetic separator system

The automatic button control, safe and convenient;

The safety identification and safety labels, to ensure safe use;

Equipped with one set of spiral type feeding hopper, forklift feed the materials into the hopper, the conveying belt send the materials uniformly for the crushing, the feeding speed stepless adjustable;

Equipped with one set of conveyor, the crushed particles will be made magnetic separating through the conveying belt, separating iron and aluminium for different storage;

Equipped with one set of bag dust collector, can absorb the dust effectively in the production,  reduce the pollution and improve working environment.