1) Project Background: Why Botswana yards are scaling “standard bales + faster dispatch”

In Botswana, many recycling yards serve a wide radius of suppliers, so inbound scrap often arrives in mixed batches—light steel offcuts, small structural pieces, and workshop returns. When material stays loose, it quickly consumes yard space, slows forklift/crane movement, and creates loading inefficiency. As freight and handling costs remain a constant pressure, more operators are strengthening one core capability: producing standardized bales that are easier to stack, store, and ship. In this context, expanding capacity with multiple baling stations has become a practical way to stabilize daily production.

2) Customer Profile & Application Needs

This Botswana-based customer wanted to increase daily throughput without making the process complicated for operators. Their priorities were:

• Add capacity in a scalable way by running four identical machines in parallel.

• Produce consistent bale dimensions for neater stacking and faster truck dispatch.

• Keep operation and maintenance simple, with predictable cycle performance.

• Improve yard flow by reducing waiting time at the baling step.

3) Solution Delivered: 4 × Y83-160 Turn-Out Metal Baler (350×350 Bale Output)

To support the expansion plan, the customer purchased four units of Y83-160 (turn-out) metal balers. Running multiple identical stations helps the yard balance shifts and keep production moving during peak inflow. For busy yards, this “multi-unit” approach also adds resilience—routine maintenance on one unit doesn’t stop the entire workflow.

Just as importantly, the project focuses on standardizing output. With the Y83-160 configuration, the yard can turn loose scrap into consistent bales and build a cleaner “sort → feed → bale → stack → load” routine. This is exactly where a hydraulic metal baling machine creates value: less volume, more order, and smoother dispatch.

4) Specification Table (Quotation Configuration)

5) On-Site Workflow: Why four stations improved yard rhythm first

After commissioning, the yard organized material flow into parallel stations:

• A sorting and staging area for loose scrap

• Four baling points running the same operating logic

• A stacking zone for uniform bales ready for loading

With four machines, the customer can allocate different scrap streams to different stations, or run the same material across all four during peak days. This reduces internal queueing, improves traffic flow, and helps trucks load on schedule. In practice, a hydraulic metal compactor deployed as multiple stations is often the simplest way to raise throughput without adding complex automation.

6) Customer Feedback: What improved first in daily operations

Early feedback focused on visible day-to-day improvements:

1. Cleaner stacking and faster dispatch: uniform 350×350 bales stack neatly, making loading plans easier.

2. Less congestion during peak inflow: four stations reduced waiting time at the baling step and stabilized the daily rhythm.

3. More predictable production planning: consistent cycle performance made shift scheduling and truck dispatch more reliable.

For the customer, the key benefit wasn’t only higher output—it was a smoother process. A well-matched hydraulic scrap baler reduces re-handling and makes yard operations more repeatable.

7) Key Takeaway for Southern Africa Scrap Operators

This Botswana project reflects a practical scaling strategy: instead of relying on one single station, adding multiple standardized machines increases throughput, improves operational resilience, and simplifies training and maintenance. For yards targeting consistent bale output and stable dispatch, a multi-unit setup of a metal hydraulic baling press is a proven approach—especially when combined with standardized bale size and predictable cycle time.