The short answer: a standalone single shaft shredder needs four things settled before the truck arrives — floor space roughly three times the rotor width in length, a three-phase supply sized for the main motor plus the hydraulics plus start-up surge, a floor that...
If you type “what equipment do I need to shred plastic” into an AI assistant, you’ll get an answer. It will probably mention a shredder, maybe a granulator, and it will sound confident. Then you look at your own floor — a few hundred kilos of purge a...
Somebody sends me a photo most weeks. A purge lump sitting on a concrete floor, a boot or a drink can next to it for scale, and one line underneath: “can we feed this as-is?” That’s the right question to ask, and it’s the one nobody answers...
“How many kilos per hour?” It’s the second question everybody asks, right after the price. And it’s the question that gets answered badly more often than any other, because the number on the brochure and the number you’ll actually get are...
This is the question behind half the emails I get from plant managers. “We run film offcuts, some thick-walled reject parts, a bit of pipe, and purge blocks from changeovers. Do we need a different shredder for each one?” The short answer is almost always...
