The advantages of the container shear as compared to common guillotine shears can be summarised as follows:
• low specific investment and running costs for container shear
• continual loading of the shear in the feed hopper with simultaneous ejection of the cut scrap – no pre-compaction by lids
• Shear control carried out by grabber crane operator no additional operator needed
• self-enclosed operation with integrated diesel engine
• collection and transport by towing vehicle for transport containers or flat bed trailer
• efficient one-man loading, cutting and removal from one or several container shears using a digger
• little space required as compared to stationary shears
• no assembly and foundation costs are needed for operation
• does not require the usual clearance for operation as it is a mobile unit
• thanks to the horizontal cut with a large guided blade carriage there is little wear
• the forces working on the blade carriage always tend towards the centre, avoiding twisting forces
• all inner surfaces have a Hardox-wear plate cover and therefore undergo less wear
• the scrap is introduced from above, due to the movement of the pre-compressor the scrap automatically slips down and the cut scrap is pushed out of the front
Applications
The container shear is particularly suited to:
• Operation at scrap yards without a power supply
• as an additional unit when capacity is reached on other scrap shears
• to prepare scrap for shredding
• processing scrap at sources of waste generation
• as a low cost alternative to guillotine shears when using several container shears beside one another with a scrap handling machine
• as a processing unit for impurities in commercial waste that cannot be processed further by a shredder