A scrap metal shredding and recycling line, integrating a metal shredder, a metal crusher, and an eddy current separator, was recently shipped from the Xrido Group’s environmental equipment industrial park to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The line, modularly packaged and loaded into ocean shipping containers, is ready to be dispatched. This production line can process scrap metal through a complete process from coarse crushing to fine crushing and sorting. Its export not only demonstrates my country’s system integration capabilities in scrap metal processing equipment but will also help Brazil solve the problem of low scrap metal recycling efficiency, promoting the development of a circular economy in the region.
The core advantage of this recycling line lies in the coordinated operation of three main pieces of equipment: the metal shredder, employing a dual-shaft shearing design, can shear large scrap metal items such as end-of-life cars and large steel structures into 50-100 cm blocks, with a processing capacity of 20-25 tons per hour, reducing the burden on subsequent crushing stages; the metal crusher, equipped with high-strength alloy hammers, can further crush the shredded metal blocks into uniform particles of 5-10 cm, meeting the downstream smelting “refined material” standards, and reducing hammer wear by 30% compared to traditional equipment; the final eddy current separator uses a high-frequency alternating magnetic field to precisely separate non-ferrous metals such as copper and aluminum from the crushed material, achieving a purity exceeding 96%, effectively increasing the resource added value of the scrap metal.
Brazil, as a major manufacturing country in South America, generates over 8 million tons of scrap metal annually, but local recycling largely relies on manual sorting and simple crushing equipment, resulting in a resource utilization rate of less than 50%, and a significant amount of non-ferrous metals being wasted. The Brazilian client who imported this recycling line is a leading local recycling company. After six months of global research and trial operation testing, they ultimately selected this equipment. The client’s representative stated that once operational, the production line is expected to process 300,000 tons of waste metal annually, recovering an additional 25,000 tons of non-ferrous metals, generating economic benefits exceeding 40 million reais, while simultaneously reducing land pollution caused by waste metal stockpiles.
To ensure stable operation of the production line, the company has assembled a Portuguese-speaking technical service team to conduct site surveys and provide infrastructure guidance in Brazil. They will also provide six months of on-site commissioning and operational training, and have committed to supplying vulnerable parts free of charge for three years. The first batch of equipment has already set sail and is expected to arrive in Rio de Janeiro in 45 days. This cooperation will become a benchmark project for Sino-Brazilian environmental equipment cooperation, opening a new chapter for my country’s complete waste metal processing equipment in the South American market.
