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Plastic crusher from China

A plastic crusher is a fast knife rotor behind a screen, and the rotor style that suits bottles chokes on thick lumps, so the quote only means something once your scrap is on the table.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 30 September 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Rotor and blade style

Flat blades suit sheet and film. Claw blades bite into thick-walled parts and lumps. Staggered or V-shaped rotors cut hollow parts such as bottles and drums with less shock. Ask which style is quoted.

Throat and hopper

The feed throat decides the largest part that goes in whole. Long pipe and profile need a side or tangential feed.

Dry or wet crushing

In bottle washing lines, water is added in the chamber to pre-wash and cool. That needs sealed bearings and stainless parts where water runs.

Blade steel and screen

Ask for blade steel grade, how many regrinds a blade allows, and the screen hole size range you can fit.

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

Your scrap: bottles, pipe, crates, lumps or sheet, with wall thickness.
Polymer, and whether glass fiber or dirt is present.
Kilograms per hour and target flake size.
Dry or wet operation.
Noise limit at the operator position.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Crush a timed batch of your scrap at target rate.	Throughput per hour meets the offer without jamming.
Sieve the output.	Flake size matches the screen, with fines below the level agreed.
Try to open the cutting chamber while the rotor runs down.	The chamber stays locked until the rotor has stopped, and blades show no damage.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity under 2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027.
Risk assessment; ask whether EN 12012-1, for granulators and knife mills, was applied.
Blade and screen drawings.

The one people forget. The noise declaration. Crushers are loud, and your workplace duties depend on it.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

Your scrap arrives as purgings, bales or drums too big for the throat.

An industrial plastic shredder first.

You want even regrind beside a molding machine.

A plastic granulator sized for sprues and runners.

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

Listings · 12Twelve marketplace listings for plastic crushers, checked September 2026, advertised FOB asking prices from US$1,045 to US$150,000. Asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 2Two of those listings, checked September 2026, described crushers for rubber and for timber.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Industrial plastic shredder. Put it in front of the crusher for bulky lumps.
Plastic granulator. Choose it for regrind beside a molding machine.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Plastics & molding page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

What is the best plastic crusher from China?+

One with a rotor style suited to your scrap, a throat that takes your biggest part, and blades you can regrind.

Plastic crusher sourcing guide: what do I send?+

Photos, weights and polymer of your scrap, target flake size and hourly rate. Ask each supplier to name the rotor style.

What goes on a plastic crusher factory audit?+

Whether rotors are balanced in-house, which steel blades are cut from, and whether each crusher runs real scrap before shipping.

Who is the EU importer of a plastic crusher?+

Usually the buyer, when buying direct. Your details go on the machine or its documents, and you check the declaration matches it.

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