Dubai, UAE – As part of the vision to be a world class provider of recycling services, ARM Metal Recycling is proud to announce the addition of its new copper granulator machine.
“In the scrap metal recycling industry, copper is the metal that generates the most revenue for scrap yards. Copper’s high ductility, or ability to be formed into wire, makes it valuable in a way that many metals are not,” said Ammar Shtaiwi, Managing Director of ARM Metal Recycling.
End-stage copper that arrives at the yard needs processing before it’s ready to be sold and put back into use. That’s where the addition of the copper wire granulator machine became a vital addition to ARM’s operations, added Ammar.
The working process of the copper wire granulator machine is roughly divided into 3 main parts:
- Feeding: The granulator starts with scrap copper wire, almost all of which will be insulated. When you’re dealing in high volume scrap wires, you can trust the granulator to do the work. You’ll simply feed the wiring, insulation, and all, into the granulator. Using a belt conveyor to feed will make it much more efficient.
- Shredding: Once scrap wires or cables are fed in, the cable granulator will get to work. Scrap cables will be chopped into plastic pieces and copper granules. ARM’s integrated copper cable granulator is used for recycling automotive wires, communication cables, and other types of miscellaneous wires and cables. The diameter of feeding scrap cables can be below 20 mm. For a single conductor with a diameter of 0.3–20 mm, the machine performs best.
- Separation: Now comes the work of separating the valuable copper from the plastic waste. This is an important step, With bad-quality machines, recyclers could lose nearly 15 percent of their copper to being incorrectly sorted as waste. That’s tantamount to throwing money away. But no worries, the copper recycling rate of our copper wire granulator machine is no less than 99%, which can guarantee the quality of copper.
“The addition of the new copper wire granulator is a game changer for us,” said CEO Hasan Zakaria. “The end result is a stronger product offering for customers.”