Steel industry

Over the past decade, we have helped steel service companies and scrap businesses around the world to improve and simplify their operations.

The impact breakers developed and manufactured by FRACTUM are widely used by steel mills around the world for the recycling of slag, molds, and any type of scrap as well as the removal of skulls and the breakage of pig iron and tundish.

FRACTUM breakers are capable of dealing with whichever material right where it was dumped and where breakage is needed. With our solutions you can go from one job to the next in rapid succession without having to transport heavy materials to the drop ball.

As a result, breaking tasks such as slag crushing, iron breaking, and de-skulling require less heavy machinery when working with FRACTUMS impact breakage solutions. High levels of flexibility and great breaking capacity translate into lower transport and other operational costs, higher production capacity and productivity.

Hot Skull Breakage

Breaking hot skulls safely

Hot slag doesn’t always break immediately after leaving the pot and has to cool for some days before it can be process further. This requires a lot of space on site and is regarded as an inconvenience, as the processing and removal of slag limits a pit’s recycling capacity.

Fractum’s breakers allow for the processing of slag skull when it is still red hot, reducing the cooling time to one fifth. As a result, skulls can be transported from the slag pit for further processing within 24 hours.

The added advantage is that the need for wheel loaders and other heavy machinery is reduced as well as the drop ball process. This positively impacts the budget and productivity levels whilst ensuring safety in the slag yard.

Slag Pot Deskulling

Quarries usually pile up and store large boulders, to break them at a later stage using secondary blasting or traditional chisel-based equipment.

A Fractum breaker combined with a quick coupler enables a single operator to handle any stockpile of large boulders straight away. As a result of our technology, just one operator can easily switch from the breaking function to the grapple. This improves cost effectiveness and productivity.

Pig iron and slag skulls

Quarries usually pile up and store large boulders, to break them at a later stage using secondary blasting or traditional chisel-based equipment.

A Fractum breaker combined with a quick coupler enables a single operator to handle any stockpile of large boulders straight away. As a result of our technology, just one operator can easily switch from the breaking function to the grapple. This improves cost effectiveness and productivity.