List of types of mill explained

Types of mill include the following:

Manufacturing facilities

Categorized by power source

• Watermill, a mill powered by moving water
• Windmill, a mill powered by moving air (wind)
• Tide mill, a water mill that uses the tide's movement
• Treadmill or treadwheel, a mill powered by human or animal movement
  • Horse mill, a mill powered by horses' movement

Categorized by not being a fixed building

• Ship mill, a water mill that floats on the river or bay whose current or tide provides the water movement
• Field mill (carriage), a portable mill

Categorized by what is made and/or acted on

• Materials recovery facility, processes raw garbage and turns it into purified commodities like aluminum, PET, and cardboard by processing and crushing (compressing and baling) it.
• Rice mill, processes paddy to rice
• Bark mill, produces tanbark for tanneries
• Coffee mill
• Colloid mill
• Cider mill, crushes apples to give cider
• Drainage mill pumps water from low-lying land
• Flotation mill, in mining, uses grinding and froth flotation to concentrate ores using differences in materials' hydrophobicity
• Gristmill, a grain mill (flour mill)
• Herb grinder
• Oil mill, see expeller pressing, extrusion
• Ore mill, for crushing and processing ore
• Paper mill
• Pellet mill
• Powder mill, produces gunpowder
• Puppy mill, a breeding facility that produces puppies on a large scale, where the welfare of the dogs is jeopardized for profits
• Rock crusher
• Sugar cane mill
• Sawmill, a lumber mill
  • Millwork
• starch mill
• Steel mill
• sugar mill (also called a sugar refinery), processes sugar beets or sugar cane into various finished products
• Textile mills for textile manufacturing:
  • Cotton mill
  • Flax mill, for flax
  • Silk mill, for silk
  • woollen mill, see textile manufacturing
• huller (also called a rice mill, or rice husker) is used to hull rice
• Wire mill, for wire drawing

Other types

• See

Industrial tools for size reduction and/or filtration

(See comminution, filtration)

• Arrastra, simple mill for grinding and pulverizing (typically) gold or silver ore
• Ball mill, a mill using balls to crush the material
• Bead mill a type of Mill (grinding)
• Burr mill or burr grinder, a mill using burrs to crush the material, usually manufactured for a single purpose such as coffee beans, dried peppercorns, coarse salt, spices, or poppy seeds
• Coffee grinder
• Conical mill (or conical screen mill)
• Cutting mill, a device commonly used in laboratories for the preliminary size reduction of materials
• Disc mill (or disk mill)
• Edge mill
• End mill, a type of milling cutter used in milling in the machining sense
• Expeller pressing (also called oil pressing)
• Hammermill, a mill using little hammers to crush the material
• IsaMill, an energy-efficient mineral industry grinding mill that was jointly developed in the 1990s by Mount Isa Mines
• Jet mill, grinds materials by using a high speed jet of compressed air or inert gas to impact particles into each other.
• Milling machine, a machine tool that performs milling (machining)
• Mortar and pestle
• Pin mill, a mill for achieving very fine particle sizes
• Planetary mill
• Roller mill, a mill using rollers to grind or pulverize grain and other raw materials using cylinders
• Rolling mill, for rolling (metalworking)
  • Strip mill, a type of rolling mill
• Slitting mill, for slitting metal into nails
• VSI mill, a mill with a vertical shaft that spins
• Stamp mill, a specialized machine for reducing ore to powder for further processing or for fracturing other materials
• Three roll mill
• Ultrasonic disintegrator a type of Mill (grinding)
• Vibratory mill a type of Mill (grinding)
• VSI mill (vertical shaft impactor mill), a mill that comminutes particles of material into smaller (finer) particles by throwing them against a hard surface inside the mill
• A wet mill performs wet-milling: steeps a substance in water to remove specific compounds
• Wiley mill, a specific group of grinding mills manufactured under the name Thomas Scientific