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Shredding Machine Manufacturers and Suppliers

IQS Directory provides an extensive list of shredding machine suppliers and companies. Utilize our website to review and source shredding machine  supplier with our easy-to-use features which allow you to locate shredding machine  companies that recondition, refurbish, and supply shredding machine  for your exact specifications. Our request for quote forms make it easy to connect with leading shredding machine suppliers. View company profiles, website links, locations, phone number, product videos, customer reviews, product specific news articles and other production information. We are a leading manufacturer directory who will connect you with the right manufacturers whether you are looking for waste shredders, pallet shredders, or metal shredders.

  • Archdale, NC

    Vecoplan leads the charge with cutting-edge technologies that revolutionize waste and recycling. From versatile shredders and granulators to efficient conveying and sorting systems, Vecoplan offers a wide array of solutions for handling wood, paper, plastics, textiles, and more. Our tailored equipment sets new industry standards, meeting the demands of even the most challenging applications.

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  • Wilsonville, OR

    Tackling the toughest shredding problems since 1980, SSI Shredding Systems designs, manufactures and supports today's most versatile shredders and size reduction solutions. Our innovative engineering means equipment for all needs: waste (including medical), metal, paper, tire, e-scrap, plastics, product/security destruction, construction and demolition (C and D).

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  • Grand Prairie, TX

    Our long established Saturn-brand industrial shredders are designed with cost and innovation in mind, and provide the benefit you need no matter what you need to shred! Our one-two and four shaft Saturn-Brand shredders can handle metal, plastic, tires, paper, and even automobiles! We can destroy and repurpose nearly any material that you have in your factory. Find out more by visiting www.granutech.com and view our shredder PRODUCT or APPLICATIONS page, or by calling us today.

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  • Alpena, MI

    At Amos Mfg., Inc., we specialize in designing and manufacturing high-quality industrial shredders that are built to handle the toughest materials. With years of experience in the industry, we take pride in offering durable, efficient, and reliable shredding solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of our clients.

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Shredding Machine Industry Information

Shredding Machine

Shredding machines are mechanical devices for various types of material, including metal, drums, paper, plastic, cloth, and wood.

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Benefits of Shredding Machines

Industrial manufacturers accumulate metal items, pack bins, pack rolls of plastics, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, cans, and drums, which can often be reused. Shredding is often a solution when it cannot be reused. Industrial shredding offers multiple benefits in addition to being useful for size reduction. These machines are useful for recycling the product and shredding solids to ensure that other machines or processes run smoothly in addition to offering document security.

Other benefits include:

  • Increase Security
  • Reduce Waste Volume
  • Reduce Costs
  • Increase Efficiency

Shredding Machine Design

There are four types of ways shredders cut: shearing, tearing, fracturing, and optimum action.

  • Shearing uses scissor mechanisms to cut up the material. Shearing depends on the sharpness of the blades.
  • Tearing involves pulling apart material with force until they pull apart.
  • Fracturing is a shredding method used on glass and plastic that involves shattering the material.
  • Optimum action uses all three other types of cut at once.

Ductile materials tend not to be easily fractured. Examples are cloth, rubber, soft plastics, paper, soft metals, and cardboard. These materials are better disposed of using shearing. Friable materials are easily fractured, such as stone, glass, cast metals, or wood.

Additionally, shredders feed in one of two ways: batch or meter. Batch feeding involves dropping large masses of material into the machine. They are more likely to clog or take on more than they can shred.

Types of Shredding Machines

Plastic Shredders
Often grinders, chippers, shear shredders, granulators, hammer mills, and all-purpose shredders.
Tire Shredders
Designed for shredding old tires into landfill covers, boiler fuels, rubberized asphalt, and various other products. This can be done using shear shredders, specialty shredders, grinders, chippers, and granulators.
Paper Shredders
Designed to shred and dispose of commercial and industrial paper waste. This can be done using strip-cut shredders, industrial paper shredders, and cross-cut shredders. They are used by government organizations, businesses, and private individuals to destroy private, confidential, or otherwise sensitive documents. They range in size and price from small and inexpensive units designed for only a few pages at a time.
Hammermills
Heavy-duty shredders used for mass shredding. They utilize rotating hammers that pulverize paper through a screen. The hammers may have knife blades, blunt edges, or a combination of the two. Users can change the screen size to fit their particular needs. With the right screen in place, a hammer mill can reduce paper to dust.
Wood Chipper
A heavy-duty machine that reduces the wood into tiny pieces. Typically, trunks and tree limbs are placed through a wood chipper and turned into wood chips. The machine can be mounted on wheels to be towed by a truck.
Scrap Metal Shredder
Used to reduce the size of scrap metal to be disposed of or recycled. These are commonly used for tin cans, iron, copper tubes, coins, computers, bulk drums, tin, and electrical boxes.
Single Shaft Shredder
A single shaft shredder has fewer rotating blades but can still handle:
Pallets (Wood and Plastic)
Rolls of Rubber
Tree Limbs
Excess Injection Molding Materials (Molding, Sprues, etc.)
Dual Shaft Shredder
Also called a double shaft shredder, this design has two blade shafts and can shred large products that are light and preferably hollow, such as:
Most Forms of Construction, Demolition, and Hazardous Waste
Glass
Tires
Drum Containers (Steel and Plastic)
Wood
Textiles (and Fibers)
Televisions
Computers
Small Office Machines Like Fax Machines and Printers