Plastic Bottle Recycling Machine: PET Bottle Shredder and Crusher

It depends on your bottles and your volume, so we answer by fit rather than with one name. For PET bottles the right tool is a blade-type bottle grinder machine with a screen, not a heavy dual shaft shredder, because the screen sets the flake size your buyer pays for. The RE12CB grinder with blower suits bottles up to 1 litre at 45 kg/hr. The RE16 takes mixed bottles and jars up to 10 litres at 150–250 kg/hr. For flake production by the tonne, the RE series runs up to the RE40 at 1,000–1,200 kg/hr. Work out your kilograms per day, divide by the hours you will run, and size with some headroom, because throughput varies with feeding speed, material and bulk density. A trial on your own bottles settles it, and our machine selection guide walks through the sizing.

Every machine is quoted to the job, so we do not publish prices. The price of a plastic bottle crusher machine depends on the model and its capacity, the bottles and jars you feed, the motor rating, MS or SS construction, and options such as blower discharge into bags and the screen size. Tell us your bottle sizes and daily volume and we will recommend a model and send a quotation. Our guide to what drives machine cost explains each factor.

Bulk and value. Baled bottles sell as scrap. Clean, sorted flake is what washing lines, rPET pelletizers and polyester fibre plants buy, because the transport bulk and part of the contamination are already gone. Crushing also raises bulk density, so the same truck carries far more saleable material.

Not one by one. That would kill throughput. The usual practice is to hand-sort out PVC bottles, metal and glass before feeding (metal breaks blades), then crush the bottles with caps and labels on. Downstream, a float-sink wash tank separates them: HDPE and PP caps and label fragments float, and PET flake sinks. The separated caps can go through an HDPE grinder machine and be sold as regrind of their own. If your buyer wants unwashed flake, expect a price discount for the cap and label fraction. That is normal trade practice.

The flake size is set by the screen in the cutting chamber. Our standard screen is 12–15 mm, and we make it to your buyer’s specification on request. Most washing lines in India work comfortably with flake in this range. Because the screen is replaceable, you can change flake size later without changing the machine. See the Plastic Grinder page for screen and model details.

A plastic bottle maker machine is a blow molding machine, which is not part of our range, so we cannot quote one. We build what works beside it: grinders for the reject bottles, preforms and start-up scrap a blow molding line produces, so the material is reused or sold instead of dumped. The price of one of our grinders depends on the model, the capacity you need, the motor rating and options such as blower discharge. Our blow molding scrap grinder page covers that duty.

Yes, and we encourage it. Bring a sample lot of your actual bottles, baled or loose, and we will run a trial so you can check flake size, throughput and output quality yourself before committing. Contact us to book a trial slot.

The routine items are blade sharpening and lubrication. Blades are re-sharpened periodically, and how often depends on your running hours and how clean the material is (sand and grit dull blades faster). The RE8 to RE25 carry 3 rotating and 2 fixed blades, the RE30 6 and 4, and the RE40 9 and 6. Every machine comes with a 1 year manufacturer warranty against manufacturing defects, plus lifetime service and spares support.