Mobile shear balers exist because the material does not always come to you. Scrap processors and demolition contractors increasingly need equipment that can go where the material is, instead of trucking it to a fixed plant — and the haulage saved on a single job often pays for a large part of the machine. ERS partners with TAURUS and is its technical service hub in the United States, bringing that capability to American operators through three machines: HIRU, MIZAR and ELLE.
The case for processing on site is straightforward. Loose scrap is mostly air. Moving it means paying to transport empty space, and every mile of that is cost with no return. Baling or shearing at the source turns the same material into dense, stackable packs that travel at a fraction of the cost per ton — and because the packs are consistent, what arrives at the mill is a known quantity rather than a mixed load that gets discounted on arrival.
There is a second argument that gets less attention. A fixed plant commits you to a location for twenty years. A mobile machine commits you to nothing, which matters when the work is contract demolition, when a site is temporary, or when you are not yet sure a region will produce the tonnage.
HIRU — self-propelled and tracked
HIRU moves itself directly to the material. Instead of scrap being brought to a stationary shear, the shear tracks across the site to where the pile is. It delivers up to 1,300 tons of cutting force, a 220-ton clamp and a 7,200 mm box length, which is enough for structural steel, demolition material and oversized profiles that would otherwise need pre-cutting before they could be handled at all.
Safety is built into the structure rather than left to operator judgement. ARD defines and constrains the machine's operating position and turning radius, so it cannot be driven somewhere it should not go. DAS, the Drive Assistance Sensor, continuously monitors people and obstacles in the working area and automatically slows or stops the machine if anything enters the danger zone. On a live demolition site with other trades working around the machine, that distinction matters.
MIZAR — transportable, no foundation
MIZAR delivers up to 200 tons of compression force and produces bales up to 1000 × 600 mm. Its solid tank-type body needs no foundation — it is transported roll-on / roll-off and simply set down where it is needed, which removes civil works, permits and lead time from the installation entirely.
It suits light ferrous scrap, end-of-life vehicles, white goods and collected scrap — the material that takes up the most volume relative to its weight, and therefore costs the most to move untreated. Where that material arrives mixed, ASR and car fluff recovery and midlings and tailings processing deal with what the baler cannot.
MIZAR is also the machine for operations that want baling capacity without committing to a permanent plant, or that need to prove a site works before building anything fixed.
ELLE — self-loading
ELLE is built for operators who move their baler frequently or run it as rental equipment. Four onboard lifting cylinders let it self-load and unload from a transport vehicle, with up to 1,000 tons of cutting force and minimal setup time between jobs.
No crane, no second machine, no waiting for lifting equipment to become available — which is what makes a genuinely multi-site operation practical rather than theoretical.
For a rental business that is the whole economic case. A machine that needs a crane at both ends of every move spends its chargeable days waiting for one.
Choosing between them
The three machines answer different questions. If the material is heavy, structural or spread across a large site, HIRU's mobility and clamp are what matter. If the problem is volume — light ferrous, ELVs, white goods — MIZAR's compression and foundation-free installation do more. If the machine itself has to move between sites regularly, or earn its keep as rental equipment, ELLE's self-loading is the deciding feature.
In practice the choice follows the material and the jobsite, not the specification sheet, which is why we would rather look at both before recommending one.
What ERS adds
We are an engineering company, not a dealer. The machine is one part of an operation, and it has to work alongside what is already there — shredders and mills, magnetic and eddy-current separation, conveying and, where material is being processed indoors, dust collection.
ERS specifies the machine against your material and your site, handles the delivery and commissioning, trains your operators, and supports it afterwards with spare parts and field service out of Atlanta. Our engineers are TAURUS-certified and based in the United States, so a question about a machine does not become a time-zone problem.
That last point decides more projects than the specifications do. A mobile machine earns money on days it runs, and a part that has to come from Europe is a week of days it does not.
The rest of the range is on the TAURUS scrap processing equipment page, alongside the wider ERS metals processing lineup. Where cable and wire are part of the stream, copper wire and cable recovery handles it.
Next steps
If your operation processes scrap across multiple sites, handles demolition material, or needs processing capacity without the cost of a fixed installation, tell us what the material is and where it sits. We will match HIRU, MIZAR or ELLE to it — or tell you if a fixed installation would serve you better.
Send material to our test facility in Atlanta and we will run it before you commit, or talk to ERS about the site.