Most shredder yards are sitting on a growing pile of shredder fines. It is one of the biggest sources of lost value in a recycling operation, and most systems on the market are not built to recover it. Fines keep piling up because nobody has a real process for them, and eventually they end up baled off cheap, stockpiled, or sent to landfill entirely.

The typical approach runs fines across a high-frequency eddy current separator and calls it done. That process misses roughly half the metal. It does an alright job pulling aluminum, but it leaves almost all the copper behind, and it is not running the material past any further separation. Whatever the eddy current catches is the end of the line.

ERS takes a different approach to fines processing, engineered specifically to recover what a standard eddy current pass leaves behind. Instead of one pass and done, the material goes through a full system built for this exact fraction, and what comes out is not scrap anymore, it is a real metals concentrate ready to sell.

The difference shows up in what comes out the other end. Instead of a single mixed stream from an eddy current pass, the system actually separates red metals from aluminum. That distinction matters at the smelter. Mixed metal sells for less than sorted metal, every time, and a yard that is only running an eddy current pass on its fines is leaving that difference on the table on every load.

If shredder fines are piling up in your yard with no clear plan for them, there is a better way to process that material than sending it to landfill or baling it off for next to nothing.

Contact ERS to talk through what a recycling line built around your material stream could look like.