Guidetti Recycling Systems Supplied and Supported by ERS
Guidetti recycling equipment covers the whole route from a reel of scrap cable to a clean, saleable copper fraction. Engineered Recycling Systems is the authorized U.S. distributor, and supplies the range from Atlanta as engineered lines rather than as individual machines.
What the range covers
Four stages, and most plants need more than one of them.
Pre-shredding. PMG pre-shredders open up reels, bundles and tangled drops so a granulator can accept them. Sizes run from the compact PMG 400 through the 600, 900 and 900 H to the 1200, 1200 H and 1600. The H models add hydraulic drive for material dense enough to stall an electric motor.
Granulation. The Sincro line is the core of most installations, with the Sincro 415, 530 and 950 covering small to high throughput. The Sincro Eko line does the same job in an ultra-compact footprint, and the Sincro Mill line handles dirtier, mixed feed.
Separation. Dry separation tables split copper from plastic by density, recovering the fine fraction that air separation alone leaves behind — and without water, effluent or a drying stage.
Recovery from the residue. The Reco Mill line reprocesses plastic tailings and recovers the copper most operations send to landfill. On a plant running real volume that stage often pays for itself on its own.
For cable and radiator work together, the Wire Pro series combines granulation and separation in one compact line.
Choosing between them
The decision is driven by the feed, not the catalogue. Clean production offcuts behave nothing like shredder wire off an auto shredder, and a line built for one will underperform on the other.
Three questions settle most specifications: what is the copper content and how much does it vary between loads, how contaminated is the material, and what purity does your buyer actually pay for. The gap between a 97% and a 99.5% product is the difference between a commodity price and a mill price, and it is decided by the separation stages rather than by the granulator.
Throughput matters less than people expect. A line sized for peak tonnage but short on separation produces more material at a lower grade, which is usually the wrong trade.
Where ERS adds to the machine
Guidetti builds the equipment. ERS engineers it into a working plant — conveyors and feeders between stages, magnetic separation for the ferrous fraction, dust collection for the fines, and the ductwork and controls that tie it together.
That integration is where lines usually fail. A granulator fed in surges, a separation stage outrunning the material in front of it, or fines escaping at a transfer point will each cost more over a year than the difference between two machine models.
The applications
Insulated copper wire and cable of every description. Shredder wire from auto shredding. ACSR overhead conductor. Radiators and copper meatballs and motor armatures.
Where a manufacturer generates its own offcuts, in-house wire scrap recovery captures the value rather than selling it at scrap price. At higher volumes, large-scale wire chopping applies the same principles with the separation stages sized to match.
How a project starts
With a sample. Cable scrap varies so much between sources that a written specification tells you very little, and the recovery figures are what the line gets designed around. Material can be run at the ERS test facility in Atlanta before anything is committed.
Every Guidetti line ERS supplies is installed, commissioned and supported by ERS, with spare parts and service from Atlanta. Blades, screens and wear parts are stocked, because on a granulation line those are the running cost that decides what the plant actually earns.
Talk to ERS about the cable you are processing and the grade you need out of it.