Fractum - Secondary Rock Breaker

Fractum Gmbh is the world leader in breaking, and the innovator of the biggest; most powerful hammer in the world. The Fractum breaker is capable of delivering up to 400,000 joule per stroke - an energy level that is 15 to 30 times more potent than that of the biggest hydraulic hammer. The Fractum Breaker, - is used in secondary rock breaking for use in intensive mining and quarrying applications. Originally developed for recycling slag, iron and steel waste in steel works, the Fractum Breaker can be used in conjunction with existing machines and can perform all secondary breakage at a financial cost comparable to blasting operations.

HIGH-CAPACITY SECONDARY ROCK BREAKER

The blasting process, the geology and the size of the primary breaker define the number of oversized boulders that has to be handled by the secondary breaker. Blasting which is too severe leads to escalating costs and a high level of "fines" - potentially undesirable by-products. Blasting which is too loose, increases the amount of oversized boulders.

The Fractum Breaker possesses a very high rock breaking capacity. It has also been built to break oversized rocks in a non-penetrative manner, thereby helping to keep wear and operational costs to a minimum.

The equipment also features an operation mode that responds to the toughness of the oversized rocks. This means that rock breaking capacity increases, as the boulders get bigger. No boulder is too big for Fractum Breaker to handle. Basalt boulders of more than 150t have been successfully broken.

The Fractum Breaker can handle virtually all your breaking requirements, ensuring that you to make large cost savings in the blasting process and in secondary breakage operations. The free-fall Fractum breaker, accurately guided inside a chassis, fits to any brand of excavator from 25t to 60t depending on the model.

SAFE AND EASY OPERATION

Easy and safe to operate, the Fractum Breaker can be used in conjunction with all brands of construction equipment. The Fractum Breaker is also designed to keep shelling from rock pieces to a minimum, meaning that it can be operated in close proximity to other machines.

The Fractum Breaker imposes a small operational load on the carrying machine, ensuring minimum mechanical wear and limited vibrations in the carrying machines. It can be used with or without quick couplers, enabling the operator to multi-task and finish the job in hand more quickly.

Due to the way it works, there are only few vibrations delivered back to the boom - giving the excavator a longer lifetime. You are able to use older excavators without any problems, as the load of the excavator is small. The operational costs are low as the wear costs are considerable lower than that of the hydraulic hammers, and the load on the excavator is about 50% of what is considered for the big hydraulic hammers.

In 2002 the Fractum Breaker was nominated for an award by the German quarry association - StBG - for increasing safety in then field of secondary breakage.