Guangxi is located in South China and connects Southwest China, Central South China, and the ASEAN market. The region has multiple sources of scrap steel, including port logistics, steel circulation, machinery processing, construction demolition, and renewable resource recycling. For large local scrap recycling companies, scrap sources are often complex. Materials may include factory offcuts, dismantled steel structures, waste machinery, thick steel plates, structural steel, round bars, vehicle frames, and various types of heavy mixed scrap.
These materials usually have large size, high thickness, and irregular shape. If they are loaded or sold directly without processing, transportation and downstream handling efficiency will be low. Without large shearing equipment, companies often have to rely on manual flame cutting, excavator-assisted dismantling, or outsourced processing. This not only creates unstable efficiency, but also increases labor cost, fuel gas consumption, safety risks, and yard occupation pressure.
The customer in this project is located in Guangxi and operates as a relatively large local scrap steel recycling and processing company. The customer’s original processing method could no longer meet the growing demand for heavy scrap processing. Therefore, they planned to purchase a high-shearing-force gantry shear with a large feeding box and higher automation level to improve the processing capacity of oversized scrap and ensure stable supply to downstream steel mills or large recycling customers.
Based on the actual scrap recycling conditions in Guangxi, this project is suitable for the following customer types:
Customer type: large scrap steel recycling bases, steel mill supporting scrap suppliers, port-area recycling processing companies, demolition scrap processing companies, heavy machinery dismantling companies, and regional scrap steel traders.
Main materials: thick steel plates, structural steel, channel steel, angle steel, round bars, square steel, waste mechanical structures, dismantled steel structures, obsolete equipment, heavy industrial scrap, and mixed heavy scrap.
Business needs: cutting oversized heavy scrap into shorter pieces suitable for transportation, stacking, and furnace feeding; improving truck loading density; reducing manual flame cutting; increasing delivery efficiency; lowering safety risks; and strengthening stable supply capacity for downstream customers.
Purchasing concerns: whether the shearing force is strong enough, whether the feeding box is suitable for large scrap, whether the cutting width can handle heavy materials, whether the cutting length is adjustable, whether the machine can run continuously and stably, whether the hydraulic system is reliable, whether the control method is convenient for on-site operation, and whether the manufacturer can provide technical support for future maintenance.
For this type of customer, small alligator shears or ordinary metal balers cannot solve the core problem. The customer needs a heavy-duty gantry shear that can process large-volume, oversized, and thick heavy scrap.
Part of the scrap steel in Guangxi comes from construction demolition, port logistics, steel structure projects, machinery repair, and industrial manufacturing. The material sizes vary greatly. Thick steel plates, round bars, square steel, and large structural parts are slow and costly to process by manual cutting.
The customer needed a machine that could centrally shear heavy scrap and turn oversized materials into sizes more suitable for transportation and downstream use.
Traditional flame cutting requires skilled operators and involves open flame, smoke, noise, and workplace safety risks. When the scrap volume is large, manual flame cutting cannot maintain stable output and is not suitable for long-term standardized operation.
By using a gantry shear, the company can reduce dependence on manual flame cutting and transfer more heavy scrap processing work to mechanical equipment, improving safety and process control.
Uncut large scrap steel has irregular shapes and occupies a large storage area. It is also difficult to move and load. For a large recycling base, long-term storage of oversized scrap affects yard turnover, forklift routes, loading arrangements, and inventory management.
By cutting scrap into approximately 300–600mm pieces, the customer can classify, stack, load, transport, and sell the materials more conveniently.
Steel mills and large recycled metal companies usually pay close attention to scrap size, unloading efficiency, and supply stability. Scrap that is too long, irregular, or mixed can increase downstream processing difficulty.
The customer’s purpose in purchasing a large gantry shear was not only to increase processing volume. More importantly, they wanted to produce more standardized scrap that is easier for downstream buyers to accept, thereby improving cooperation stability and price negotiation ability.
According to the Guangxi customer’s heavy scrap processing demand, material size, operating intensity, and continuous working requirements, we recommended and supplied the Q91Y-10000 Gantry Shear.
This machine is suitable for large scrap steel recycling bases and heavy scrap processing applications. It can cut square steel, round steel, steel plates, structural steel, and mixed heavy scrap made of ordinary steel materials. The machine uses a large feeding box design, combined with PLC automatic control and remote operation, making it suitable for manual loading, unloading, and continuous on-site shearing work.
The core purpose of this solution is to help the customer upgrade from traditional manual cutting and low-efficiency processing to a mechanical, standardized, and continuous heavy scrap shearing operation.
The machine is equipped with an 8000 * 2000 * 1000mm feeding box, which can hold longer, wider, and thicker scrap materials. For large recycling companies in Guangxi, scrap sources are complex and material sizes are not uniform. A large feeding box reduces frequent pre-processing and manual sorting, improving feeding efficiency.
The customer needed to process not only light scrap, but also heavy materials such as thick steel plates, round steel, square steel, and structural parts. The Q91Y-10000 gantry shear has shearing cylinders with a nominal force of 4906kN * 2 and a total shearing force of about 1001 tons, making it suitable for high-strength scrap steel cutting applications.
The cutting length can be adjusted between 300–600mm, allowing the customer to control discharge size according to the requirements of downstream steel mills or recycling customers. Compared with irregular oversized scrap, the sheared pieces are easier to load, weigh, stack, and remelt.
Large scrap recycling sites often involve dust, noise, and heavy machinery operation. PLC automatic control combined with remote operation makes the machine more convenient to use and helps improve operational safety and production continuity.
Guangxi has a relatively humid and hot climate, and hydraulic system stability is very important during continuous scrap processing. The machine is equipped with a water cooler, cooling oil pump unit, cooling water tower, and circulating water pump, which help control oil temperature and support stable operation during high-load shearing work.
The customer chose Jiangsu Wanshida Hydraulic Machinery Co., Ltd. not only because the machine’s shearing force and specifications met the project requirements, but also because of our manufacturing experience and project service capability in heavy-duty hydraulic scrap processing equipment.
We have forty years of experience in hydraulic machinery manufacturing and have long focused on metal balers, gantry shears, alligator shears, container shears, briquetting presses, scrap shredding equipment, and related recycling equipment. According to different customers’ material types, site conditions, processing capacity, downstream requirements, and budget range, we can provide equipment selection suggestions that are closer to real working conditions.
For the Guangxi project, our advantages were mainly reflected in the following aspects:
The core value of this project is to help the Guangxi customer improve heavy scrap processing capacity, not simply to purchase one shearing machine.
With the Q91Y-10000 Gantry Shear, the customer can cut oversized, irregular, and difficult-to-load heavy scrap into shorter, more regular, and more transportable scrap materials. After the equipment is put into operation, the customer can reduce manual flame cutting, improve heavy scrap processing efficiency, enhance yard turnover, and strengthen stable supply capacity for downstream steel mills and large recycling customers.
For large scrap recycling companies in Guangxi and nearby regions, this type of high-tonnage gantry shear is especially suitable for projects with a high proportion of heavy scrap, complex material sources, and stable delivery requirements.
As the scrap recycling industry moves from rough storage and manual processing toward mechanized, standardized, and efficient operation, large gantry shears are becoming important equipment for heavy scrap recycling companies to improve competitiveness. For the Guangxi customer, the Q91Y-10000 Gantry Shear not only improved single-batch processing capacity, but also provided a more reliable equipment foundation for expanding scrap purchasing, stabilizing supply, and improving project profitability.
