Others custom Hemp or Flax Breaker
EUROPE (Western and Northern)
Brand: Vanhauwaert
Hemp/flax breaker with pneumatically controlled rollers.
Width of rollers is about 1,1 meters and capacity is between 400 and 700 kg´s per hour depending on material processed.
This machine can be used in decortication process to break stems into smaller pieces. Frame of the breaker is modified to allow infeed either from top or side.
Year of construction is not known, but breaker seems to be from 2000s and it´s manufactured by a company specialized in hemp and flax processing.
Ideally this would be part of farm-scale or r&d decortication line.
Picture attached is showing the breaker while welding new framework. A slide was installed to allow biomass fall from wide conveyor belt into breaker.