Shredders & Pulverizers

A shredder is a machine or equipment used for shredding. Shredding systems are used to reduce the size of a given material.

Based on the purpose of use, shredders can be categorized as consumer shredders and industrial shredders. Thus, a paper shredder normally falls into the category of consumer shredder as it is mostly used by consumers.

Industrial shredders are typically heavy-duty and high volume systems used to process such recycling material streams as e-waste, plastic, wood, and paper. Industrial shredders are equipped with different kinds of cutting systems such as vertical shaft design, horizontal shaft design, single shaft, two shaft, three shaft and four shaft cutting systems.

A pulverizer or grinder is a mechanical device for the grinding of many different types of materials. For example, a pulverizer mill is used to pulverize coal for combustion in the steam-generating furnaces of fossil fuel power plants.