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Shred-Tech driven by people power
Formed four decades ago, Canada-based Shred-Tech has maintained a trajectory of constant evolution and innovation in
order to keep pace with the changes in materials coming forward for recycling. And key to the company’s success has been
the experience of its sales and engineering teams.
A
lmost every industry has some legal or
government-mandated responsibility
when it comes to recycling of waste and
destruction of confidential materials. Com-
panies must pay tyre recycling fees, adhere to
local laws governing the disposal of electronic
equipment or face hefty penalties if they fail
to protect data.
‘In a wide range of applications, there is
some form of government intervention either
driving recycling, safeguarding information
or safeguarding the environment,’ says Joe
Roberto, vice president of sales and market-
ing at Shred-Tech. ‘In North America, re-
cycling really got started in a big way in the
early 1980s and has just continued to evolve.
Very few businesses now are not recycling in
one way or another. The advancements in re-
cycling are never-ending. Our business and
technology are constantly evolving to keep up
with all the changes in materials that need to
be recycled.’
Investing in capabilities
Shred-Tech started out in the late 1970s by
producing stationary two-shaft shredders for
a wide range of manufacturing plant-based
applications. The company then developed
one of the world’s first mobile shredding
trucks, designed to shred confidential office
paper and documents on site. The mobile
trucks quickly became popular and have long
been the largest revenue-generating segment
of Shred-Tech’s business.
Although mobile shredding trucks are
the company’s primary product, Shred-Tech
continues to see growth in its stationary in-
dustrial shredding equipment. It offers a wide
array of plant-based shredding and recycling
systems, including two-shaft shredders,
four-shaft screened shredders, single-rotor
screened shredders and granulators, as well as
large primary shredders. Since its inception,
the company has installed more than 6000
shredding and recycling systems worldwide
for customers as diverse as Fortune 500 man-
ufacturers, hospitals and military facilities.
Multiple production facilities
‘On an annual basis, we sell shredders to
almost every industry category you can im-
Joe Roberto: ‘Almost every order that we receive is customised to a certain extent.’
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