Can We Work With Your Material?

Every day, facilities come to us with a material they’ve been told is “unprocessable” — too wet, too fibrous, too weird. Sometimes that’s true. Often, it isn’t. The fastest way to know is to look at how your material behaves, and stack it up against what we’ve already proven, what we’re actively testing, and what we know doesn’t work.

Shockwave combines drying and milling in a single continuous process to do something most systems can’t. We dry and micronize at low temperature, so heat-sensitive components like protein stay intact. That means a finished product that can carry higher protein content and higher value, whether it’s a food-grade ingredient or a feedstock that would otherwise be downgraded by heat damage.

By lowering the mill’s RPM, we can also create real separation of fiber, fat, mineral, protein, carbohydrate, and ash from the same material, turning streams that would otherwise be landfilled, land-applied, or stuck as a disposal cost into distinct, saleable fractions.

If your material has structure, dry matter, or fiber to homogenize against, there’s a good chance we can help.

The Quick Answer: It Comes Down to Moisture and Homogenization

The single biggest factor in whether we can run your material is whether it can homogenize with dry matter. Muddy, high-moisture products with no fiber and no dry-matter backbone are the hardest cases. Everything else — even genuinely difficult streams like algae, stillage, or biosolids — is usually a matter of finding the right blend ratio, not a hard no.

Don’t See Your Material Listed?

That’s normal — this list reflects what we’ve already run or tested, not the limits of what’s possible. Materials get reclassified constantly as we run new trials. If your material isn’t here, it’s not a “no” — it’s a “let’s find out.”

Here’s How to Find Out for Sure

The list above is a starting point, not a substitute for looking at your actual material. Moisture content, fiber structure, particle size, and your throughput goals all matter — and the only reliable way to answer “will this work?” is to have a conversation with our team.