Reclaimers is one of the yard equipments used in bulk material handling applications for the iron & steel industry, power industry, port terminals, mining industry, petrochemical and fertilizers industries. Reclaimers is to recover bulk material such as ores and cereals from a stockpile for reclaiming, blending and homogenization of stockpiles.

Generally electrically powered by means of a trailing cable, reclaimers normally travel on a rail between stockpiles in the stockyard. A bucket wheel reclaimer can typically move in three directions: horizontally along the rail; vertically by luffing its boom and rotationally by slewing its boom.

Bucket wheel reclaimers use bucket wheels for removing material from the pile they are reclaiming. Scraper reclaimers use a series of scrapers on a chain to reclaim the material.