Buying Guides

New hydraulic guillotine cutters cost $5,000–35,000 depending on cutting force, blade width, and automation. This guide breaks the price down by size class, lists the costs quotes leave out, compares new against used, and shows how to size the machine so you pay for tonnage you actually need.

Compare vertical and horizontal water ring pelletizers by layout, service access, drive arrangement, material trials, and total line cost before your RFQ.

Agricultural film comes off the field carrying 30–50% of its weight in soil, sand, and moisture — the hardest feed in film recycling. This guide explains what that contamination does to a standard wash line, which extra stages an agricultural film recycling line needs, and how to spec one for mulch, greenhouse, and silage film.

What drives eddy current separator price, why quotes for the same belt width differ by a factor of five, how to size between small and full-scale units, which manufacturer claims you can actually verify, and when a used machine is worth the risk.

The Precious Plastic shredder is the open-source design that started thousands of small recycling workshops. This guide compares building one from the plans against buying a finished desktop shredder — real component costs, build time, safety and CE questions, and when each route makes sense.

An air classifier separates recycled material by weight in a stream of air — film from flake, dust from regrind, labels from bottle chips. This guide compares the main types (zig-zag, cross-flow, drum wind sifter, vertical column), shows which feed each one suits, and explains how to specify one with its dust collection system.