Hammermill

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A hammer mill is a mill whose purpose is to shred or crush aggregate material into smaller pieces by the repeated blows of small hammers. These machines have numerous industrial applications, including:

• Ethanol plants (grains)
• A farm machine, which mills grain into coarse flour to be fed to livestock
• Fluff pulp defiberizing
• Fruit juice production
• Grinding used shipping pallets for mulch
• Milling grain
• Livestock, poultry, and aquatic feed production
• Sawmills, size reduction of trim scrap and planer shavings into boiler fuel or mulch

• Shredding paper
• Shredding scrap automobiles (see automotive shredder residue)
• Shredding yard and garden waste for composting
• Crushing large rocks
• In waste management