Frequently Asked Questions About Demolition Pulverizers
What is a demolition pulverizer used for?
A demolition pulverizer is a hydraulic jaw attachment for excavators that crushes reinforced concrete structures and separates steel rebar from concrete during building demolition. This speeds up demolition and produces materials ready for recycling.
How is a demolition pulverizer different from a hydraulic breaker?
A hydraulic breaker (hammer) breaks concrete by impact, one blow at a time. A demolition pulverizer uses a powered jaw to grip, crush and tear concrete while simultaneously separating rebar — making it faster for structural demolition and reinforced concrete processing.
Which excavator sizes are MB Crusher demolition pulverizers compatible with?
MB Crusher demolition pulverizers are available for excavators from 12 to 85 tons. MCM Group will recommend the correct model based on your excavator's operating weight and hydraulic capacity.
Are MB Crusher demolition pulverizers available in South Africa?
Yes. MCM Group is the official MB Crusher distributor in South Africa, with genuine jaw wear plates, bearing kits and technical support available from our branches.
Demolition pulverizers from MB Crusher are engineered for the systematic processing of reinforced concrete — the primary challenge in modern structural demolition. When a building's concrete floors, walls and columns are laced with steel rebar, a standard hydraulic breaker is slow and inefficient because it must break the concrete and then free the rebar separately. A demolition pulverizer handles both operations simultaneously.
The pulverizer jaw is shaped to grip and crush concrete sections while its hardened steel teeth sever the embedded rebar. This produces clean concrete rubble and free steel that can be sorted and recycled independently — the concrete crushed further with an MB bucket crusher and the steel sold to scrap merchants. This separation is required on demolition sites where concrete and steel must be sorted before disposal or recycling.
MB Crusher pulverizers are available in fixed-jaw and rotating-jaw versions. A rotating pulverizer can turn 360 degrees, giving the excavator operator greater flexibility in gripping and processing concrete elements at any angle without repositioning the machine.
MCM Group carries genuine MB Crusher jaw wear plates and replacement parts for all pulverizer models in stock. Contact our branches in Cape Town, George, Gauteng or Bloemfontein for a quote and compatibility check for your excavator.
