Industrial shredder

An industrial shredder is a machine used to break down materials for various applications such as recycling, volume reduction, and product destruction.

Some examples of materials that are commonly shredded are: tires, metals, construction and demolition debris, wood, plastics, leathers, papers and garbage, such as commercial and mixed waste.

The industrial shredder is commonly used to process materials into different sizes for separation or to reduce the cost of transport.

The largest scrap metal shredder in the world was designed with 10,000 hp by the Schnitzer steel group of Portland, Oregon in 1980.

The 9,200 hp (6,860 kW) Lynxs at the Sims Metal Management plant at the mouth of the River Usk in Newport, Wales has access by road, rail and sea.

Industrial shredder. This shredder is set up in line with a granulator, in order to reduce the size of the processed material more.