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Long wood scrap for long winters

Russian furniture giant Lerom relies on a WEIMA ZM 40 four-shaft shredder to process more than 20 cubic meters of wood waste from production every day.

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Fearless shredding

For the processing of toxic, corrosive and sometimes flammable waste streams, it simply cannot be a standard off-the-shelf shredder. The Siam City Cement subsidiary Ecocycle in Hon Chong (Kien Giang Province, Vietnam) took up the challenge and found the right technology partner in WEIMA. Toxic hazardous waste now ends up in the calciner for cement production after shredding, instead of in the landfill.

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30 percent lower energy costs thanks to Baumüller high-torque drive

In-house recyclers often approach WEIMA with extremely ambitious goals in terms of throughput, energy efficiency and robustness. For good reason: Together with its partners, the shredding specialist from Ilsfeld always develops individual solutions for customers – from the drive concept to the cutting geometry and hopper shape, all the way to automation and interconnection with other components within a processing line.

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Paarhammer, Australia: Sustainable waste management in the woodworking industry

Paarhammer is an well-established Australian manufacturer for European style windows and doors and it could be assumed that one of their most essential items is directly involved in the manufacturing process. But in Paarhammer’s case, the essential component is a waste management system that produces briquettes from sawdust and off-cuts.

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Barrel makers in high spirits throughout pandemic

In Exeter, UK, Devon Contract Waste recycles a wide variety of hard plastics. This includes not-so-everyday items such as fuel tanks, kayaks and road cones. The central component of the recycling plant is a WEIMA WLK 1500 single-shaft shredder.

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Recycling is for the bin

This is where the cycle begins. At the Swedish company Veolia Recycling Plastics Sweden AB, waste bins, HDPE pipes and other contaminated hard plastic waste are turned into new raw material with the help of a WEIMA PowerLine 2500 shredder and downstream wash line.

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