Pellets provide easier transport, storage, and application, particularly for bulk materials like coal, carbon black, ores, chemicals, and fertilizers. The size increase enhances bulk material handling, transfer, and shipping.

Pelletizing improves the surface area of materials, making them ideal for sintering, drying, melting, and combustion. This also enhances feed preparation for blending, pressing, and molding operations.

Pellets can enhance the physical appearance and marketability of products, such as instant foods, detergents, and other consumer goods, improving their commercial value.

Pelletizing helps in the dustless disposal of superfine precipitator and baghouse dust, such as steel mill waste, ferroalloy dust, silica fume, cement and lime kiln dust, and friction material waste. This is especially critical for the safe disposal of hazardous and toxic waste fines.

Pelletization enables the recycling of useful minerals, metals, and fuel from steel mill revert fines, coal and coke fines, copper precipitates, kiln dust, smelter flue dust, and other byproducts, reclaiming valuable materials during industrial processes.

Pelletizing can be combined with mixing operations, allowing for the integration of dry and liquid wastes or initiating chemical reactions within the pellets to further optimize material properties.