Hammermill

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
This article is about the modern milling machine. For historical mills that used trip hammers, see Hammer mill.
For the paper manufacturer, see Hammermill Paper Company.
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