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 Cereal mill—see Gristmill, below 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 :Category:Industrial buildings and structures
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 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