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Cable recycling machine from China

A cable recycling machine earns its money on the copper that ends up in the copper bin, and fine wire, tinned wire and cable mix decide that far more than the motor size in the listing.

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

Granulator, stripper, or both

A granulator chops cable into short pieces and separates copper from plastic on an air or vibrating table. A stripper slits single large cables and pulls the insulation off. They answer different cable streams.

Pre-shredder in front

Bundled, long or thick cable needs a shredder before the granulator. Small units expect hand-fed, cut, clean wire. Ask what length and diameter the feed opening accepts.

Separation table and air system

Copper recovery depends on the table, its adjustment and the air flow. Ask how the middlings, the mixed fraction, are re-run, and whether a second table or electrostatic step exists.

Knife steel and screen

Ask the knife material and hardness, how many edges each knife has, and the screen hole size, which sets granule length.

Dust collection

Chopping PVC and rubber insulation makes dust. Ask what filter is included and whether it is sized for the air table.

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 cable mix by share: household wire, data and telephone cable, automotive harness, power cable.
Largest cable diameter and whether cable arrives in bundles, coils or cut lengths.
Copper purity your buyer pays for, and whether aluminium cable is also in the stream.
Tonnes per shift you need, measured on your mix, not on clean single-core wire.
Supply voltage and the floor space and height for the table and dust filter.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Feed a weighed batch of your own cable mix, including fine and tinned wire.	Copper, plastic and middlings each weighed, with recovered copper as a share of copper fed written in the report.
Send a copper granule sample and a plastic fraction sample to a lab.	Copper purity inside your buyer's grade and copper left in the plastic inside the contract limit.
Time the batch from first feed to last granule out.	Measured kilograms per hour on your mix at or above the figure in the offer.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity with the serial number, under 2006/42/EC until 19 January 2027, then Regulation (EU) 2023/1230.
Low voltage 2014/35/EU and EMC 2014/30/EU references for motors and the control panel.
Knife and screen drawings with material and hardness, so wear parts can be made locally.

The one people forget. A noise declaration from the manual. Granulators are loud, and your workplace noise assessment needs the figure the machine was tested at.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

Your stream is mostly thick single power cables.

A cable stripping machine. It keeps copper in long lengths and skips the separation losses of granulating.

You process whole appliances or circuit boards along with cable.

An e-waste separation line. A cable granulator is not built for boards, glass or batteries.

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 · 34Thirty-four marketplace listings for cable recycling machines, checked September 2026, advertised from US$1,399 to US$299,900. Only one stated a throughput, 150 to 200 kg per hour. Asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 34In the same thirty-four listings, checked September 2026, twenty-three titles called the machine a granulator, two described wire stripping machines only, and the three highest priced named a shredder ahead of the granulator.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

E waste separation line. Choose an e-waste separation line when boards and appliances, not only cable, make up your input.
Industrial recycling shredder. Add an industrial shredder in front when bundled or thick cable is too big for a granulator feed.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Recycling 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.

Chinese vs European cable recycling machine: what differs?+

Separation table quality, knife steel, dust filters and documented recovery. Ask each maker for recovery on the same cable sample and compare the copper weighed, not the brochure percentage.

What goes on a cable recycling machine inspection checklist?+

Weighed batch of your cable, copper and plastic lab samples, timed throughput, knife hardness certificate, dust filter, guarding on the feed opening, emergency stops and serial plate.

What CE documents come with a cable granulator?+

An EU Declaration of Conformity naming the machine and serial number, a manual in your language, and a technical file the maker must be able to show.

Who is the EU importer of a cable recycling machine?+

When you buy direct, you are. Your name goes on the machine or its documents. The permit to treat cable waste is your matter, not the machine's.

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