The shearing action of the ED-5 Wiley Mill results from steel knives on a revolving shaft working against knives bolted onto the circumference of the cutting chamber.
The fan effect created minimizes changes in temperature rise, moisture, and liquefaction.
This makes the mill able to process many materials that cannot be reduced by other mechanical means including plastics, animal feed, bones, cables, cardboard, feed pellets, foils, food, material mixtures, non-ferrous metals, pharmaceutical products, refuse derived fuels, rubber, wood and more.