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Shredder Types - Single shaft shredder

Shredder can be equipped with different types of cutting systems: single-shaft, two-shaft, three-shaft and four-shaft cutting systems. These shredders are all slow-speed systems, in contrast to hammer mills which are generally high-speed systems. ...

Dec. 1, 2012

By Harden Industries Ltd.

Shredder Types - Two shaft shredder

Shredder can be equipped with different types of cutting systems: single-shaft, two-shaft, three-shaft and four-shaft cutting systems. These shredders are all slow-speed systems, in contrast to hammer mills which ...

Jan. 17, 2013

By Harden Industries Ltd.

Shredder Types - Four shaft shredder

Shredder can be equipped with different types of cutting systems: single-shaft, two-shaft, three-shaft and four-shaft cutting systems. These shredders are all slow-speed systems, in contrast to hammer mills which are generally high-speed systems. ...

Jan. 3, 2013

By Harden Industries Ltd.

New single-shaft waste shredder set to take UK by storm

Riverside Waste Machinery – one of the country’s leading providers of waste balers and shredders – is set to take the waste management industry by storm this summer when it introduces a powerful new innovation in single-shaft engineering to the UK marketplace. Hot on the heels of the successful TR launch ...

May 16, 2011

By UNTHA UK LTD

The WEIMA E-Rotor shredder

WEIMA America has introduced the new “E-Rotor” WLK shredder. The purpose of the new rotor is specifically for the recycling of film and fibrous materials. This includes the historically tough to shred woven and non-woven fibers. The design has also eliminated wrapping issues with thin gauge films & fibers which sometimes occurs with other rotor designs. One of the ...

Jun. 10, 2009

Tire Shredders: An Introduction

How Does a Tire Shredding Machine Work? Tire shredding is a very common way of preparing scrap tires for disposal or recycle. In order to dispose of tires in a landfill, they must be shredded to various sized chips. The size required depends on the state or area you live in. Tire shredding is also used for recycling tires; crumb tire or tire mulch can be reused to create surfaces on ...

Feb. 23, 2017

By ECO Green Equipment

Holcim: SRF production with UNTHA shredders in Vietnam

Work is underway to commission a Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) manufacturing plant in Vietnam, for one of the world’s leading cement and aggregates specialists, Holcim. The plant will process solid footwear production waste from the country’s main shoe factory, to create a fossil fuel substitute that will power Holcim’s local cement kiln calciner. Following a global ...

Aug. 6, 2015

By UNTHA Shredding Technology

RDF production at Delete Oy with UNTHA shredders

UNTHA’s complete RDF system strengthens Delete’s waste to energy commitment When environmental services specialist Delete needed a new alternative fuel production system for its site in Tampere, central Finland, the €100million turnover company turned to Austrian-based UNTHA. Now manufacturing more than 20 tonnes of 80mm RDF an hour, ...

Jul. 27, 2015

By UNTHA Shredding Technology

New shredder boosts BPR’s destruction of confidential waste

Waste management experts BPR Group has invested in a leading-edge shredder to improve the scope and security of its confidential paper destruction service. The company has installed the renowned UNTHA RS100 shredder at its Rainham facility in Greater London, enabling BPR to bring its shredding operation in-house rather than contract it out to a third party. BPR is now generating revenues of more ...

Apr. 3, 2013

By UNTHA UK LTD

Innovation and Investment Key to Success for Yorwaste (Waste shredder case study)

With the opening of its new Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) facility at the end of 2012, waste and recycling company Yorwaste is supporting a step-change within the UK waste industry with a shift in focus from waste processing to profitable fuel production. It is widely acknowledged that the UK must do more to reduce its landfill contributions and instead harness energy from waste – developing ...

Feb. 12, 2013

By UNTHA UK LTD

Size Reduction of Technical Plastics– Two-Stage Operations more Efficient than Single-Stage

At HKR Kunststoffe GmbH in Langenbeutingen, technical plastics such as ABS, PBT, PC, POM, but primarily PA 6, PA 6.6, PA 12, PPA, LCP, etc. – particularly glass fibre reinforced types – are processed into high-grade regranulate. These materials accumulate as production waste in the plastics processing industry in the form of start-up chunks, sprues, rejects, etc. They are treated in two-stage ...

Jan. 2, 2008

Cleaning without material loss

Cleaning without material loss: Hydraulic Easy Cleaning-Construction reduces cleaning of the Single-shaft shredder and facilitates work processes Many materials have to be comminuted before further processing - this includes different chips and stamped parts made of plastic and metal, but also valuable precious metals such as gold and silver as well as laboratory samples. In this process, a part ...

Jul. 6, 2017

By Erdwich Zerkleinerungssysteme GmbH

Energy from old carpets case study

A leading recycler of old carpets and textiles has recently successfully commissioned a WEIMA Spider 1500 shredder in the United Kingdom. The through-put was increased 46 per cent compared with the previous shredding installation. The medium-sized family business in southern England can look back on 35 years of company history. It has always concentrated on the industrial recycling of fibres ...

Sep. 22, 2014

By WEIMA

Cement production in the land of the Pharaohs case study

LaFarge, worldwide-leading building materials producer with its head office in Paris has successfully installed a WEIMA PowerLine 3000 shredder in the cement works in El Sokna (Egypt) and commissioned this for processing secondary fuels. In the searing heat and surrounded by desert dust, the flexible and universal shredder shreds around 13 tons of material (mainly domestic and municipal waste ...

Sep. 22, 2014

By WEIMA

UNTHA optimises WtE production and metal recycling at Turkish paper mill

An UNTHA shredder is now fully operational in Turkey’s first solid waste incineration plant. The single step XR3000C has transformed Modern Enerji’s approach to metal recycling, at the same time as boosting the production of ...

Oct. 13, 2016

By UNTHA Shredding Technology

Tissue manufacturer uses WEIMA machinery to utilize waste and increase profits case study

Nestled in the rolling hills of North Carolina (USA) is a tissue manufacturing plant that will take your breath away at first glance. This state-of-the-art facility is over one million square feet and operates around the clock producing large quantities of tissue and paper towels. This particular plant prides itself in being safe, profitable, and environmentally friendly. In order to reach these ...

Sep. 22, 2014

By WEIMA

Florida-based BlueLinx makes cash from wood scrap - Case Study

Headquartered out of Atlanta, Georgia, BlueLinx Co. is a renowned manufacturer of wood components and building products in North America. The Lake City, Florida plant is just one of the company’s forty-eight distribution centers and is home to forty-two employees including technicians and sales representatives for the corporation. BlueLinx of Lake City noticed a significant amount of scrap ...

Sep. 18, 2015

By WEIMA

Shredding at sea case study

The 'Solitaire'of theAllseas Group is the world’s largest and most modern offshore pipe-laying ship. It helps to lay an average of five kilometres of underwater pipeline every day. Synthetic end caps accumulating as waste will be shredded by a WLK 10 shredder from WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbH while still on the ship in order to sell the valuable raw material once on land. The 368 m long and 40 ...

Sep. 22, 2014

By WEIMA

Tissue Manufacturer Uses WEIMA Machinery to utilize waste and increase profits case study

Nestled in the rolling hills of North Carolina (USA) is a tissue manufacturing plant that will take your breath away at first glance. This state-of-the-art facility is over one million square feet and operates around the clock producing large quantities of tissue and paper towels. This particular plant prides itself in being safe, profitable, and environmentally friendly. In order to reach these ...

Sep. 18, 2015

By WEIMA

IBC container shredding in Manchester case study

The Manchester (England)-based company Reckon Packaging Limited is a leading manufacturer of HDPE synthetic containers in the United Kingdom. A WLK 15 shredder from WEIMA was recently commissioned there. The aim was to efficiently shred and recycle IBCs that could not be reused. Industrial Bulk Containers (IBCs) are used mainly in the chemical, food and pharmaceutics industries. Recon Packaging ...

Sep. 22, 2014

By WEIMA

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