What is an Industrial Shredder? How it works?

An industrial shredder is a specialized heavy-duty equipment built to shred dense and light materials so as to either recycle them or eliminate unusable productive. It plays an important role in the destruction of waste materials and converts them into raw form for managing wastes or remanufacturing. There are a range of industrial shedders: office equipment built for the elimination of sensitive documents to large commercial industrial shredders for recycling or disposal. Shredders nowadays are undoubtedly a default equipment in manufacturing and production that help minimize the amount of waste materials thrown into landfill sites.

How do industrial shredder works?The operation principle of a shredder may appear simple since any material placed in it is shred or cut into fragments by single or multiple blades for waste management or reprocessing. If you take the engineering technology into the equation, what seemed simple may now turn out complex. Basically, a shredder comes built-in with a Rotor (to shred waste and scrap), Blades (for shredding function), Housing (covers the various shredder components), Motor (shreds a range of materials), Power Systems (electric and hydraulic—to process a variety of materials), Feeding (Batch & meter to shred bulk quantities of material), Grabbing (takes the material to direct them down into the blades) and Control Systems (panel control systems for making process adjustment to shred without the need to access the mechanism for finer changes/adjustments).Shredding ProcessWe will cover the shredding process here starting with the basic process that involves identifying the exact needs of the customers. We, as manufacturers, need to answer various questions like the base material type the shredder is built to shred for; the purpose of shredding the material (reuse, recycle, repurpose); output details on the completion of the shredding process and intended function of the material post-shredding and how it is extended down the process chain.At Maxin India, we go the whole hog in understanding the entire operational process and when opportunity presents itself, identify optimization processes or solve other issues within the process. Industrial shredders are lot more integrated onto their process for efficiency. Our manufacturing process is marked by complete transparency with due regards for proprietary processes. This initial understanding of the customers plays an important part in the realization of the concept followed by the design to manufacturing process.Materials that can be ShreddedFinding the right shredder is important for shredding a wide variety of materials including chicken & bone, paper, plastic, green waste, oil & aluminium & metal cans, lathe scrap, roofing sheet, green & garden wastes, fodder, small branches, garden waste, fish, Rafia & cement bags, fiber, biomedical waste, fodder, coconut husk, small branches, corrugated box, security plate, sticker paper, metallic paper, paper cups & plates, carton box, laminated paper, paper board, jumbo bags, light-weight metal scraps, wooden pallet and many more.Shredder Safety GuidelinesThere are a few basic safety guidelines when it comes to operating industrial shredders. We have included this to ensure any shredder is operated in the safest way possible

• Never put your hands and fingers into the shredder mouth.
• Keep hair and jewellery always away from the shredder opening.
• Check for shredders that come built-in with advanced safety & security features.
• Always get proper operating procedures from an expert before using the shredder.

Industrial Shredder MaintenanceThough this sub-topic is beyond the scope of the blog, it must be remembered that choosing the right industrial shredder should not only suit your business requirement, but easily maintainable. Things to consider when maintaining your industrial shredder include shredder’s capacity, switching off your shredding system when out of operation, timely maintenance & repairs, planning for downtime, seamless operation, maintaining spare replacement parts in the case of emergencies, fire hazard prevention, regular monitoring & inspection of parts, cleaning/overhauling the different components of the system, and finally selecting the correct technology.