Industrial Balers

About Industrial Balers and Balers Including: Bailers, Cardboard Balers, Compactors, Round Balers & Trash Compactors.

Industrial balers are used to compress and bind materials, usually industrial waste or byproducts, for shipping or recycling. Industrial baler manufacturers produce many products, including conveyor systems and shredders. Industrial balers can also operate independently. Since industrial balers usually deal with large volumes, they usually have a large input area either on the side or top depending on type. The input area leads to a chamber where the material is pounded, smashed or squeezed into a compact size and then bound. Wire, plastic or string is often used in the binding. Industrial balers can be used for many types of materials. They can be for organic materials as well as cloth or paper. Certain types of industrial balers can also compact metals and plastics. Specialized baling and compacting equipment is available for the extraction of oils and liquids from material.
 
The models made by industrial baler manufacturers have two basic styles: vertical and horizontal. These describe the way the material travels through the machine itself and also refer to the way the material is loaded into the machine. Horizontal balers take up more floor space than vertical balers, but they have the advantage of greater load capacity and more fully automated functions. Vertical industrial balers often are single load machines and need to be manually unloaded when the compacting and baling is complete. These industrial balers are used in smaller facilities that produce less waste and often deal with scrap that is lighter in density and volume. The automotive or packaging industries will often utilize larger industrial balers and compactors to make the removal and transportation of scrap materials easier. Products made by industrial baler manufacturers are used in many industries and can be found in medical facilities, restaurants, junk yards and schools.
 
As recycling becomes more central to industrial and manufacturing processes, baling equipment will continue to play a central role in the process as well. The materials, which are baled and compacted, are often reused for the production of future items within the industry using a specific material, such as scrap metal recycled into new sheet metal used in automobiles. Sometimes material can be re-used to create a whole new material later, such as the recycling of newsprint for the creation of fibers used in shoe soles.
 
Industrial balers can make material storage easier and cheaper as well as less costly to transport. It is important to consider whether or not industrial balers will be part of an existing system or independent. The size and durability of industrial balers are also important factors when ordering industrial balers. Most importantly, the capacity of the baler and the material which it will be handling must be evaluated. Special functions such as automatic tie or wrapping of the bale can cost more and require additional maintenance. Some industrial balers have the capability to shear and remove extra protrusions integrated into the function of the machine. Regulations and safety are always important aspects of baler criteria, as there are many potentially hazardous components with the mechanism and products involved.

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Types of Industrial Balers

• Bailers are used to compress industrial waste for shipping or recycling.
  
• Baling presses usually have a bin, which collects materials, and a large plate, which comes down onto the material compressing it. Then, it is baled and ejected.
  
• Cardboard balers are designed to deal specifically with compressing and binding cardboard, usually for recycling.
  
• Compactors are used to condense or crush material with one or two mechanisms that press the material with extreme force and power to the desired size. Compactors compress material on a ratio of 5:1, while balers average 25:1.
  
• Crushers and flatteners compact and crush or flatten scrap material to improve handling, transportation and disposal.
  
• Double-ram balers have a separate ram for compressing recyclable material against a fixed wall and a second ram for ejecting the finished bale (also see single-ram baler).
  
• Downstroke baler is a baling device in which the compression ram and plate move vertically in the chamber.
  
• Garbage/Trash compactors are powerful devices used to condense waste, trash and garbage.
  
• Hay balers can be stationary or manually controlled to collect and bind hay, usually into cylinders or squares.
  
• Horizontal balers are the most general type of baler available. These balers load from one end and travel the material through to the other end in a horizontal motion. Not all horizontal balers follow a perfect horizontal path, but move the load horizontally for the majority of the process.
  
• Round balers gather material or are fed material, which is rolled or collected and bound into a cylinder shape, like common hay bales.
  
• Trash compactors are used to compress waste materials to save space.
  
• Vertical balers usually have more than one charge box in order to process different types or grades of material. They often have to be unloaded manually and load from the top of the machine.
  
• Wide mouth balers have a larger entryway, which allows for the baling of materials of larger than normal width and height.

Industrial Balers Terms

Auto-tie – A device that automatically binds a bale with a wire or another tie material.
 
Banana Effect – The slight curving of a bale due to inconsistent density that causes the denser bottom portion to swell. This creates a trapezoidal bale shape that stresses the banding.
 
Baler – A machine used to pack together and bind secondary materials for storage and or shipment.
 
Bales – Compressed material that is bound usually by wire.
 
Banding – The material, usually wire or nylon, used for wrapping around bales to secure them.
 
Compaction – The increase in an object's or material's density by applied pressure.
 
Density – The per unit size or space or the concentration of a material.
 
Feed Width – The width of the opening where material is inserted into the shredder.
 
Ferrous – Iron-based metals like steel.
 
Hammermills – These are high-speed rotor equipped machines with large hammers for crushing material into reduced sizes with up to 6,000 horsepower of force. Hammermills come in various sizes and material reducing capabilities.
 
Hydraulic Press  – Press that applies force with a piston that uses liquid.
 
Impact Crusher – A machine that has large rotors with hardened steel bars at various intervals to pound concrete or other material fed to the machine.  The pieces are then hurled against a hard steel wall, which further breaks them down.
 
Incline Conveyor – A conveyor that moves at an upward angle.
 
Industrial Shredders – Equipment for the processing and reduction of solid chemicals, materials and other solid products.

Landfill – An area where waste is disposed, then covered beneath a layer of earth.  Landfills are usually equipped with a liner to reduce soil and water pollution from any contaminating seepage, thus the term “sanitary landfill.”
 
Pneumatic Press – A press that applies pressure from a piston that uses gas and or air.

Recycling – A resource recovery method involving the collection, separation and processing to specification of scrap materials and their uses as raw materials for the manufacture of new products.
 
Scrim – A very loosely woven fabric, i.e. netting, used as support or backing.
 
Secondary Materials – A term commonly used as a synonym for materials in the recycling process.
 
Throughput – The amount of material conveyed in a specific amount of time.
 
Waste Exchange – A network that connects companies, which produce waste, with companies who can use the waste in their production.