Scrap conveyors built for the toughest streams in your yard

Fluent designs and builds scrap conveyors that move, feed, sort, and load out scrap. Heavy-duty roller chain, slider bed, and sort systems engineered in the USA to your material, your equipment, and your footprint.

Our scrap conveyors

Scrap is the hardest material a conveyor handles. Roller chain conveyors are the workhorses of scrapyards nationwide. We design roller chain variants and pulley-driven conveyors for every step of your scrap operation.

Roller chain conveyors

Dense mixed scrap, sheared steel, and bulky metal call for heavy-duty or extreme heavy-duty roller chain conveyors running a steel belt. Hinged steel, apron pan, and Z-pan belts take the impact, contain material on an incline, and shrug off heat from castings and clinker.

Match the conveyor to your scrap

Conveyor choice should align with your material stream. The table below maps common materials to the Fluent setup that fits.

Scrap condition

Best Fluent conveyor

Why it fits

Heavy, sharp, mixed scrap

Extreme heavy-duty roller chain, steel belt

Carries high chain pull and absorbs shock loading without belt damage

Bulky recyclables and C&D metal

Heavy-duty roller chain, hinged steel or apron pan

Gapless steel surface handles large, abrasive, irregular pieces

Whole cars and dense steel

D4 car shredder infeed

Cat track on railroad rail takes weight and impact a belt cannot

Fine ferrous, sheared scrap, hot castings

Roller chain with Z-pan belt

Formed pans contain fines and grip on inclines; steel resists heat

Feed into a shredder or baler

Tumble-back roller chain

Cleated incline meters the stream and prevents downstream jams

Light, uniform fractions and transfers

Trough idler, flat idler, or slider bed

Pulley-driven belt moves lighter material at lower cost

Mixed stream needing separation

Recycling sort station

Picking platform isolates contaminants and fractions before baling

Where scrap conveyors fit in your processing line

Our scrap conveyors bridge gaps between every machine on your line.

Receiving and metering: Loaders and grapples dump at the front; a roller chain incline or tumble-back lifts and meters material into the first machine.

Shredding and shearing: Conveyors feed shredders and shears at a controlled rate, then carry the discharge surge away.

Screening and separation: Trough idler and steel belt conveyors move shredded output to fines screens, magnets, and eddy current units that split ferrous from non-ferrous fractions.

Sorting: A sort station line lets crews, magnets, or eddy currents pull contaminants and grade material before it bales.

Baler feed and loadout: Sorted fractions ride a baler infeed conveyor into the charge box, and finished material loads out to trailers.

This is the same system thinking behind every material recovery line we build, applied to the heavier, sharper world of scrap.

Engineered to your scrap and your yard

We design conveyors around the stream and the building. Here are some of the decisions we’ll make as a team:

Material to belt type

Piece size, density, abrasiveness, and temperature set whether you run hinged steel, apron pan, Z-pan, or a cleated rubber combo.

Impact and abrasion to construction

Heavier loads and harder impact drive frame thickness, chain pitch, and roller selection up the duty scale.

Incline and containment

Angle, cleat geometry, and sidewalls are sized to hold round and interlocking stock against rollback on the climb.

Discharge to downstream equipment

The transition and drop height are built to the shredder mouth, screen, or charge box so material clears clean instead of hanging.

Loading method to layout

Pit, in-floor, above-ground, or incline-into-hopper follows how you load and what your building allows.

See our custom conveyor and configuration options for more design information.

Do you need a conveyor solution? Contact Fluent Conveyors

Feed, sort, and load scrap the better way

Fluent designs and builds scrap conveyors in the USA, engineered to your material stream, your downstream equipment, and your footprint. Send us your scrap type and piece size, how you load, what the conveyor feeds, and the space you have to work with. Our engineering team will spec the build and layout that keeps your line moving

Guides for scrap systems

Roller chain conveyor guides

Flat idler conveyor guides

Sort station conveyor guides

Scrap systems FAQ

All Fluent conveyors

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