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A plastics plant houses loads that have almost nothing in common under one roof: the extruder screw turns against a steady torque all day, the granulator rotor takes a blow with ev... More Details

A hammer crusher is a machine in which hammers hung by pins on discs mounted along a shaft strike the rock at high speed, and the broken pieces leave by filtering through the grate... More Details

In most quarries the machine that takes the large blasted blocks from the truck dump hopper and releases them into the primary crusher at a steady rate is a pan-type (apron) feeder... More Details

Small tiles, mosaic pieces and borders cut from travertine, marble or limestone are put through an antiquing process so that they lose their freshly cut, sharp look and take on the... More Details

Clay from the pit must first be broken up and refined before it can become a brick or a roof tile; this work is done by the roller machines in the preparation section. You can take... More Details

On a roof tile line, the clay column leaving the extruder is first cut into slugs, and those slugs then take their interlocking, grooved shape in the moulding press. How the press ... More Details

In ceramic tile, sanitaryware and tableware plants, the body sent to forming is first prepared by grinding clay, kaolin, feldspar and quartz together with water for many hours. The... More Details

A backward-curved fan is a centrifugal fan whose blades are inclined against the direction of rotation. The blades may be flat plate (backward-inclined), curved or of aerofoil sect... More Details

A bucket elevator lifts bulk materials such as grain, feed, cement, clinker and aggregate using buckets fixed to a belt or chain running inside a vertical casing. What sets it apar... More Details

In a ready-mix plant or a precast factory, the quality of every concrete batch depends on how evenly the arms or the star inside the mixer blend aggregate, cement and water. This p... More Details

In a concrete plant, the accuracy of the recipe depends on how many kilos of sand and gravel leave the bins. This job is done by the gates under the bins and the weighing belt; the... More Details

Sawmill machines turn logs arriving from the forest into beams, boards and battens. The main members of this group are the band saw that first opens the log, the multi-blade (multi... More Details

A rotary kiln is a long steel cylinder laid at a slight incline that processes materials such as cement clinker, lime, gypsum, expanded clay or mineral concentrate at high temperat... More Details

A feed mixer blends weighed grain, oilseed meal, minerals, vitamin premix and liquid additives within a few minutes so that every handful carries the same proportions. A correct re... More Details

Bulgur starts from the same raw material as flour but is an entirely different product: the wheat is cooked and dried, then freed of its bran and brought to pilaf-size or fine koft... More Details

After passing through the crusher and the rollers, clay is still not a uniform body; its moisture varies from place to place, and additives such as sand, ash or sawdust are not yet... More Details

A small planetary mixer whipping cream in a pastry shop and a spiral machine kneading hundreds of kilos of bread dough in a bakery may seem to do the same job, but the load their m... More Details

An end-of-life tyre is a hard-to-cut product in which rubber, steel wire and textile cord are tightly bonded. A recycling line separates these three materials step by step: first c... More Details

However powerful the shredder, crusher or baler in a recycling plant, throughput drops if the material reaching it is irregular. The conveyors that carry material to the machine, d... More Details

A plastic granulator breaks injection runners, rejected parts, pipe and profile offcuts, and bulky scrap such as bottles and crates into small pieces that can be processed again. T... More Details