Hammer mill
Hammer mill
A hammermill is a machine whose purpose is to shred or crush aggregate material into smaller pieces. These machines have many sorts of applications in many industries, including:
- Ethanol plants (corn)
- A farm machine, which mills grain into coarse flour to be fed to livestock
- Fluff pulp production
- Fruit juice production
- Grinding used shipping pallets for mulch
- Milling grain
- Sawmills, size reduction of trim scrap and planer shavings into boiler fuel or mulch
- Shredding paper
- Shredding scrap automobiles (see automotive shredder residue)
- Shredding yard and garden waste for composting
- Crushing large rocks
- In waste management