2026-06-09
Alloy Choice Card Now Available for Demolition Recycle Yards
Crusher Consumables has released an alloy choice card tailored for demolition and recycle yards, highlighting key material options for crusher and screen wear parts.
Targeted guidance for recycle applications
Demolition and recycling environments put unique demands on crusher and screen wear parts, with highly variable feed, frequent tramp metal, and inconsistent feed size. Crusher Consumables' new alloy choice card gives yard managers and plant foremen a practical reference for choosing the right wear part material, whether facing mixed rubble, rebar, or highly abrasive concrete fines.
Key alloys covered range from austenitic manganese for work hardening jaw plates and durable cheek plates to martensitic and high-chrome iron for impact blow bars, including options with ceramic inserts for additional life in aggressive conditions. The card outlines each alloy’s fit for common recycling machine setups, including implications for tramp-metal tolerance, work hardening potential, and product consistency.
Designed for real-world decision making
This card is aimed squarely at those working hands-on in South African yards, where feed unpredictability, Eskom power cuts, and tight campaign schedules mean downtime and change-outs must be tightly managed. The alloy card draws on practical considerations like safe lifting of heavy parts, use of correct liner bolts and torque, and the importance of following OEM manuals for lockout before liner changes.
The card includes reminders on choke feeding, nip angle, and feed distribution for jaw and cone wear life, and also offers quick reference on polyurethane versus wire mesh screen media for sorting fines and minimising blockages during wet Highveld winters or Durban humidity spikes.
- Practical alloy selection tips by feed type
- Notes on ceramic inserts for tough demolition rubble
- Reminders on safe lifting and lockout procedures
- Screen media advice for variable South African climates