Huge Fragmentiser Plant at EMR Liverpool - Impressive Modern Engineering | Scrap Metal Recycling

This video takes you inside the fragmentiser plant at EMR Liverpool, one of the largest and most capable metal-shredding systems in the UK. This machine isn’t just big — it’s a highly engineered, carefully controlled process designed to break down cars, appliances and heavy scrap into clean, recyclable metal.

🔄 How the process works (arrival → fragmentiser → separation)
• Scrap arrives on site and is inspected at the weighbridge to ensure it’s suitable for shredding.
• Depolluted vehicles and mixed scrap are loaded into the fragmentiser by large material handlers.
• Inside the shredder, a high-speed hammermill smashes and tears the metal apart, reducing it into smaller fragments and separating materials in the process.
• The shredded output — a mixture of metal pieces, plastics, rubber, foam, textiles, dust and dirt — moves into downstream separation equipment.
• Magnets, eddy-current systems, screens and air-separation units extract ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals and light fraction materials.
• Clean metal streams are recovered for recycling, while lighter non-metallic residue (known as “fragmentiser fluff”) is collected and managed separately.

This entire operation relies on precise control, powerful machinery and sophisticated separation technology, making it a genuinely impressive example of large-scale recycling engineering. From bulky scrap to sorted, reusable metals — this plant shows just how complex and efficient modern metal recycling has become.

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