Guide to choosing the ideal crusher for your industry
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🧭 Guide to choosing the ideal shredder for your industry
If you're thinking about grinding bones for your business, there's a key decision you need to make from the start:
👉 What kind of shredder do you really need?
Not all industries require the same power, capacity, or features. That's why, in this guide, we'll help you Choosing the ideal bone crusher for your sector and real needs.
🥩 1. Butcher shops and meat workshops
Needs:
Grinding bone remains of chicken, pork or beef
High frequency of daily use
Limited space
Easy cleaning and hygiene
Recommendation:
✅ Automatic compact shredders in stainless steel
Powerful, safe, and designed for the work pace of a butcher shop.
Ideal products:
🌱 2. Farmers, farms and nurseries
Needs:
Converting animal bones into meal for fertilizer
Medium or intermittent production
Possibility of working outdoors or in rural warehouses
Recommendation:
✅ Robust, medium-sized automatic shredders
Suitable for crushing hard bones (such as beef), easy to transport and maintain.
Applications:
Making organic fertilizer
Enrich compost with ground bone
Create biochar
🐾 3. Pet food manufacturers (BARF or feed)
Needs:
Grind soft bones (chicken, turkey, rabbit) safely
High precision in the final texture
Clean and homogeneous processing
Recommendation:
✅ Automatic crushers with granulometry control
For fine, uniform, ready-to-mix textures in raw diets.
Important:
In the BARF diet, it's essential to avoid splinters. Therefore, grinding bones thoroughly ensures digestive safety for dogs and cats.
🐄 4. Feed and animal derivative factories
Needs:
High hourly production capacity
Intensive and continuous work
Grinding bones with scraps of meat or viscera
Recommendation:
✅ High-capacity, intensive-use industrial shredders
Heavy-duty models for full-time work, compatible with automatic feeding systems.
Applications:
Meat and bone meal
Feed supplements
Ingredients for animal feed
🧪 5. Pharmaceutical, cosmetic or biomedical industry
Needs:
Very clean and fine bone
Total hygiene control
Crushing prior to sterilization or calcination
Recommendation:
✅ High-precision, easy-clean stainless steel grinders
Ideal for use in laboratories or environments with strict sanitary regulations.
📦 What should you consider when choosing your shredder?
✅ Bone type and hardness
✅ Daily processing volume
✅ Required hygiene level
✅ Space available
✅ Final product type (coarse, fine, powder)
👉 Grinding chicken bones is not the same as grinding cow bones, nor is making BARF food the same as making fertilizer.
🛠️ Where to get the right machine?
In ARC Distribution we offer you personalized advice and machines adapted to each type of client, from small entrepreneurs to established industries.
✅ Conclusion
Choosing the right shredder isn't a matter of power, it's a matter of purpose.
When you use a machine designed for your industry, you optimize time, money, and results.
Need help choosing yours? Contact us and we'll advise you without obligation.
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