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A hammer mill is a mill whose purpose is to shred or crush aggregate material into smaller pieces by the repeated blows of small hammers. These machines have numerous industrial applications, including:
- Ethanol plants (grains)
- A farm machine, which mills grain into coarse flour to be fed to livestock
- Fluff pulp defiberizing
- Fruit juice production
- Grinding used shipping pallets for mulch
- Milling grain
- Livestock, poultry, and aquatic feed production
- Sawmills, size reduction of trim scrap and planer shavings into boiler fuel or mulch
- Shredding paper
- Shredding scrap automobiles (see automotive shredder residue)
- Shredding yard and garden waste for composting
- Crushing large rocks
- In waste management
