# List of types of mill

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