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Industrial Shredder Terms

Automotive Shredder Residue (ASR) – Material left from an automobile that has been shredded and all the ferrous metal has been taken out. Sometimes referred to as fluff.
 
Balers – Compress materials into dense rectangular bales.
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Bales – Compressed material which is bound, usually by wire.
 
Banding – The material, usually wire or nylon, wrapped around bales to secure them.
 
Burden Depth – The depth of the material is spread on a conveyor belt.
 
Cross-Cut – Cut in two directions, resulting in smaller particles.
 
Destruction Chamber – Place in shredder where material is torn, sliced, crushed or reduced.
 
Downstream Separation – The separation of material after it has been shredded, usually from a conveyor belt.  Magnets, eddy current separators, trommels and other downstream separation equipment is often used.
 
Eddy Current Separator – A device for separating nonferrous metals from nonmetallic material that uses a mechanically driven alternating magnetic field and a non-magnetic metallic particle.  An eddy current is created and the particle is taken from the fixed field generator.  
 
Feed Width – The width of the opening where material is inserted into the shredder.
 
Ferrous – Iron-based metals like steel.
 
Granulator – A machine for shredding small materials such as plastics.
 
Hydraulic – Involving, moved by or operated by a fluid under pressure.
 
Material Burden – Material on a conveyor belt that needs to be sorted.
 
Non-ferrous – Non-iron based metals such as aluminum and copper.
 
Shredder Drive – The motor of the shredder, often configured a number of different
ways including electric or hydraulic.
 
Slurry – A liquid based mixture or suspension of solids.
 
Speed – Denoted in "feet per minute." Determined by shredding continuous forms and materials and by calculating the length of paper shredded over a given time.
 
Strip-Cut – Shredded into thin strips. Generally the cut is the length of the material.
 
Throat – The opening where the paper or other materials are fed into the shredder. It needs to be large enough to accommodate the size of material.
 
Unshreddables – Materials that a shredder is unable to handle because they are too large or too thick to be shredded.
 
Waste Capacity – Measured in gallons, the volume of paper or other shredded products that the waste bag or waste bin can hold.