Separate complex materials without crushing them blindly.

XCRUSHER develops high-power pulsed technologies to liberate materials at their interfaces: membranes, bitumen, composites, e-waste, technical polymers and complex assemblies.

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Grinding reduces size. It does not guarantee separation.

Modern industrial materials are multilayered, reinforced, bonded, filled, composite or conductive. Reducing them into smaller particles is not always enough to recover their value. The finer the grinding, the higher the energy demand, the more fines are generated and the more fractions become contaminated.

XCRUSHER targets interfaces before value is lost.

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Act at the interfaces instead of destroying the whole material.

XCRUSHER uses high-power pulses to generate a short and intense physical event in a controlled medium. The objective is not to grind finer. The objective is to liberate more precisely.

High-power pulse

Transient plasma

Shockwave

Material interface

Separation

Complex flows. One separation logic.

XCRUSHER — PVC multilayer membrane fragments after selective separation
PVC Membranes
Separating multilayer waterproofing membranes to recover clean PVC and reinforcement.
Bitumen poured into moulds
Bituminous Membranes
Liberating bitumen from reinforcement layers in roofing and waterproofing waste.
XCRUSHER — carbon fibre strands recovered without shredding
Carbon Composites
Recovering long carbon fibers from cured resin matrices without shredding them.
XCRUSHER — PCBs, copper and electronic components separated from e-waste
E-Waste & PCBs
Detaching components and metals from printed circuit boards at their interfaces.
XCRUSHER — mineral granulate liberated along grain boundaries
Mining & Ore
Liberating valuable mineral phases along grain boundaries with controlled energy.
XCRUSHER — copper and composite fractions separated from dismantled parts
Industrial Dismantling
Separating bonded, assembled or composite industrial parts into clean fractions.

A physical technology. Tests on real materials.

Pilot platform
An operational pilot setup to run pulsed separation on real samples.
Real industrial flows
Trials performed on actual industrial waste streams, not idealized models.
Patented technology
A protected high-power pulsed approach developed by XCRUSHER.
Material protocols
Documented test protocols adapted to each material family.

Test your material with XCRUSHER.

Send us a material or describe your flow. We assess whether pulsed separation can liberate value where grinding cannot.

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XCR / FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What does XCRUSHER do?
XCRUSHER is a French industrial company developing a pulsed-energy platform to fragment, separate, and transform composite materials. Its purpose is to recover strategic materials from complex flows that mechanical grinding does not handle correctly.
What is XCRUSHER's technological specificity?
Instead of grinding matter, XCRUSHER activates it. High-energy impulses cross the composite and exploit its internal physical contrasts — electrical conductivity, density, fragility — to release each constituent at its natural interface. Materials are separated without being mechanically crushed, heated, or chemically attacked.
Where is XCRUSHER located?
XCRUSHER SAS is a French industrial company. It is headquartered in Strasbourg and operates sites in Val-de-Reuil and the Île-de-France region.
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