The greatest advantage of using the Blue Devil is the increased value of the material destined for steel plants and mills. Since the material is loose and has been shred rather small, it can be handled faster, can be easily inspected for foreign or dangerous material (as opposed to bales or sheared material which is piled up or where dangerous items can be inconspicuous or hidden). Furthermore, pre-shred material can carry greater weight than that of baled material. The size of the loose shred material is very small and the density is very high (approx 60 lbs/cu. ft’), this can allow steel plants to decrease melting costs (2 or 3 fewer loads/day).
Placed in front of a hammer mill shredder the Blue Devil can also be used as a pre-grinder: Materials destined for the hammer mill shredder like al. bales, cars, crushed cars, metal bales or bulk scrap metal are subjected to rough shearing, so that once introduced into the hammer mill, the latter works effortlessly, increasing the hammer mill shredders hourly production rate (by about 20-30%). In addition, pre-grinding the material also protects the hammers and mill chamber as an initial screening of the material occurs: the risk of introducing material that is dangerous and can’t be shred by the hammer mill can be eliminated by the safety mechanism of the Blue Devil. Overall, the wear on all the grinding components of the mill itself is also significantly reduced.
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