by yoyo | Oct 21, 2026 | Shredders
A buyer in Turkey sent me two quotes for an “industrial shredder” and wanted to know why one cost nearly double. Both were 45 kW. Both had similar rotor widths. On paper they looked like the same machine. I asked each supplier one question: how many hours... by yoyo | Oct 20, 2026 | Shredders
Someone emailed us last month asking for a “shredder for 800 kg/h of PP.” No material description. No feed size. No idea what the output fed. I asked what they were shredding and they said “plastic, obviously.” That is a real problem with this... by yoyo | Oct 19, 2026 | Shredders
A recycler in Poland called me about a shredder that was “underperforming.” They were feeding 200-litre HDPE drums and getting about a third of the throughput the brochure promised. They wanted to know if the motor was undersized. I asked two questions.... by yoyo | Oct 15, 2026 | Shredders
A moulder in Thailand bought a 37 kW single shaft shredder for a room inside their building. Nice machine. Two weeks later the neighbours on the other side of the wall filed a complaint, and the site manager called me asking about a “quiet motor.” I asked... by yoyo | Oct 14, 2026 | Shredders
A customer sent me a photo of a shredder screen last month. Bent, cracked along one weld, holes worn oval. He wanted to know if he should order the same size again or go smaller. “The flakes are too big,” he wrote. “I want finer output.” I... by yoyo | Oct 3, 2026 | Shredders
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...