Baling Presses
A baling press, or baler press, is a type of industrial baler that has heavy compacting capabilities and is used to compress and bind materials, usually industrial and retail waste or byproducts, for shipping or recycling purposes. The style of baling press differentiates in the way the material travels through the machine as well as in the way the material is loaded into the machine. Baling presses are generally referred to by the two basic baler styles, horizontal baling presses or vertical baling presses, as well as by the material being pressed, such as metal baling presses or scrap baling press. Horizontal baling presses are much larger in size and are generally used in automotive and industrial manufacturing industries while vertical baling presses are smaller and generally used in retail and food processing industries. Additional industries that are benefited from baling presses include textile, paper and recycling.
Baling presses, no matter the style, work through the same general process, in which the baling press is manually or automatically loaded through an input area that leads to a chamber where the material is pounded, smashed or squeezed into a compact size by a large plate. The compaction of the material is powered through a hydraulic feeder system, which automatically feeds the baling material and produces bales in fixed sizes and widths. These bales can be manually, mechanically or automatically ejected. However, the method of loading and baling does differ based on style. Vertical baling presses can have input areas, loading areas, on the top or in the front of the machine. The material is then automatically bound to form a bale. Horizontal baling presses typically have input areas, loading areas, either on one side of the machine or on top of the machine. Horizontal baling presses can be either open-ended or close-ended; open-ended baling presses can offer automatic binding or manual binding while close-ended baling presses generally require manual binding.
As recycling becomes more central to industrial and manufacturing processes, baling press equipment will continue to play a central role in the process as well. Materials are baled in order to be shipped to recycling facilities to be reused in the production of future items within the same industry, such as scrap metal recycled into new sheet metal for car bodies. Sometimes material can be re-used to create an entirely new material, such as the recycling of newsprint for the creation of fibers used in shoe soles. For high waste-producing industries, such as automotive manufacturing, plastic manufacturing and grocery stores, the choice of compacting waste materials for recycling is a matter of cost economy. Waste must be disposed of whether it is recycled or not, but using compactors to reduce waste bulk cuts down on carbon emissions, and recycling used materials for profit or for material recuperation provides an ROI on waste which would not have existed otherwise.