PRAB drag conveyor systems provide rugged, enclosed scrap handling for highly abrasive materials, such as cast-iron turnings and heavy-metal fines. With abrasion-resistant flight bars, a forged-steel chain, and liquid-tight trough construction, these conveyors are built to withstand harsh metalworking conditions while minimizing dust and coolant leakage. Their design supports long service life and low total cost of ownership, making PRAB drag conveyors a dependable choice for machining, grinding, and metal foundry scrap applications.
Our drag conveyors are built for the harshest scrap handling jobs—wet, heavy, sharp, or abrasive. Thick steel flights, heavy-duty chains, and abrasion-resistant liners enable these systems to experience 50% fewer unscheduled failures and up to twice the service life of standard drag conveyors. Whether your plant is located in North America or Europe, PRAB provides the same level of robust engineering, built in the USA or at our European headquarters in Poland, ensuring fast and reliable regional support.
These systems use powerful drag chains with welded steel flights to pull material along a hardened trough, making them ideal for conveying bushy turnings, stamping scrap, die-cast trim, and even dry sludge or fines. PRAB drag conveyors are built tough: the chains and flights are made of wear-resistant steel to ensure long-lasting durability, and the conveyor trough is abrasion-resistant to withstand continuous metal scraping.
Our designs feature sealed construction to contain dust or coolant and can be configured for horizontal or inclined transport, including in-floor submerged applications. They integrate seamlessly with automated scrap processing lines and are engineered to minimize spillage and prevent unplanned downtime, even in harsh, high-load environments.
With minimal moving components and slow chain speeds, drag conveyors deliver reliable, low-maintenance operation even when moving heavy loads or sharp, abrasive scrap. Automotive stamping, metal recycling, and machining companies rely on PRAB drag conveyor systems to reduce manual handling and downtime. Choose a PRAB drag conveyor when you need a proven, robust solution to move large volumes of scrap safely and efficiently.
PRAB offers two models, Series #348 and Series #458, in three configuration styles designed to convey materials for metal scrap recycling ranging in weight and bulk density. This conveyor is also available with in-feed hoppers and metering plates and can be customized with coolant pumps for integration with a metal chip and fluid filtration system.
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