As aluminum is punched and pressed into components used in vehicles and other applications, the process produces a valuable by-product, unused scrap aluminum. In industries such as automobile manufacturing that material can represent 40% or more of the original, making recycling an extremely important component in controlling the overall cost of the material flow process. To increase its value, the scrap must be segregated by alloy (normally 5000 or 6000 series) and then reduced in size for ease of transport on conveyors within a facility and to maximize the density in the trailers hauling the material between facilities.
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