Wood - Recycling & LEV Equipment

FAQs

What is a LEV test?

It is a health and safety assessment of Local Exhaust Ventilation components to ensure dust, fume and vapour aren’t escaping and poisoning or harming staff and employees,  operators or anyone in the vicinity. Read our LEV Testing FAQs here.

What are the benefits of planned maintenance?

LEV equipment is designed to protect the health of the workforce, proper planned maintenance and servicing is vital if you want to ensure that it continuously works as well today as it did on the day it was first installed.  Ventilation systems can often have their lifespan extended if maintenance is regular, which is often just a case of pre-planning. Read more.

What are the risks of not extracting dust?

Dust extraction systems are essential within a factory or manufacturing set up, in order to protect the health and well-being of employees. Ventilation is key where health and safety is concerned. Find out more here.

How can I check the health of my shredder?

Checking the health of your industrial shredder can be quick if you know what to do and can help to elongate its life span. Find out how here.

What are the benefits of shredder operator training?

Shredders are often sizeable bits of machinery, but even if they are smaller models it is not to be forgotten that they are dangerous bit of kit if not used properly. When they are used by an operator that has had trained and in a safe way, shredders can assist in easily reducing the size of large and otherwise useless bits of plastic, wood, aluminium, textile and rubber. Read more

How can help increase the life span of my shredder?

If you regularly maintain your wood shredder, plastic shredder or metal shredder you could double its life span. Explore our step-by-step maintenance guide here.

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Monday July 18, 2022

WL600 Industrial Wood Shredder

This durable WEIMA WL600 single shaft industrial shredder is suitable for small and medium-sized wood processing companies to shred any type of wood-based materials. Including chipboard, MDF, 2/4 solid wood and even extremely hard wood. The wood chips that are produced via this shredder are an ideal size for briquetting or for storage in central heating tank systems....

Sunday July 17, 2022

WL4 – WL8 Industrial Timber Shredders

The WEIMA WL4 through to the WL8 single shaft industrial shredders are perfect for all kinds of timber wood waste. They are distinguished by their recognisable shape and are built to withstand hours of use, delivering high reliability at a competitive price to performance ratio for all types of businesses dealing with wood waste....

Saturday July 16, 2022

WL10 – WL20 Industrial Shredders

The WEIMA WL10 - WL20 series of universal single shaft industrial shredders are typically found operating in woodworking industry applications, which demand reliable shredding at high-throughputs. Capable of shredding large quantities of both linear and lump wood off-cut timber waste, due to the rotor widths which range from 1,000 mm to 2,000 mm, depending on design configuration. It's driven by electric motors with power outputs from 28 kW to 110 kW....

Wednesday July 13, 2022

WLK4 – WLK20 Industrial Shredders

The WEIMA WLK Series of universal single shaft industrial shredders are economical, powerful, robust and reliable. Designed for high throughput size reduction of the broadest range of plastic production waste, fibres, textiles, carpets, pipes, automotive parts, blow-moulded plastic based materials such as PET bottles, PE/PP bottles, containers and buckets....

Thursday May 12, 2022

WLK800 – WLK1500 Industrial Shredders

A new generation of industrial plastic shredders, the WEIMA WLK800 -1500 series of single shaft industrial shredder have been designed to process high volumes of plastic materials. Economical, powerful, robust and reliable size reduction of the broadest range of production waste, fibres, textiles, carpets, pipes, automotive parts, blow-moulded materials such as PET bottles, PE/PP bottles, containers and buckets....

WEIMA ZM40 red and grey four shaft shredder.

Sunday August 15, 2021

ZM Four Shaft Industrial Shredder

The WEIMA ZM series of four shaft industrial shredders are typically used for shredding a mix of materials including wood, textiles, plastic, paper, metal and electronic, which might be light, voluminous or long. Slow running at 25 rpm, the WEIMA ZM industrial shredder series are powerful and extraordinarily quiet machines, which in operation emit approximately 76 dBA. These industrial shredders are ideal for installation on the shop floor, connected to the production line process due to their size and quiet nature....

Red and grey WEIMA model S5 single shaft shredder.

Monday August 10, 2020

S5 Series Industrial Shredder

The WEIMA S5 series of universal single shaft industrial shredders are economical, powerful, robust and reliable. Designed for high throughput size reduction of the broadest range of production waste, paper, cardboard, fibres, textiles, carpets, pipes, automotive parts and blow-moulded materials such as plastic PET bottles, PE/PP bottles, containers and buckets....

Sunday August 9, 2020

S7 Series Industrial Shredder

WEIMA S7 series industrial shredders are designed and built for extreme shredding tasks. Setting new standards in build, functionality and throughput the WEIMA S7 series are available with numerous options to ensure performance exactly matches application. This industrial shredder series is able to reduce all types of paper, cardboard, plastic and textiles. Different rotor versions guarantee optimum performance for every application. Options such as the innovative “V” Rotor with adjustable counter knife called “Supercut“ allows for optimum shredding results. WEIMA S7 industrial shredders can be loaded by conveyor belt, manual feed or via forklift truck. They are also ideal as preliminary shredders, integrated into a two-stage operation....

Thursday May 14, 2020

WLH WEIMA Horizontal Shredders

The WLH series of horizontal single shaft industrial shredders, affectionately named: Biber, Tiger and Leopard have been specifically designed to manage the processing of long and short linear wood production waste. Material is loaded either manually into a fed channel or automatically via vibrating chutes, with intake assisted by in-feed rollers or chain link (subject to model) delivering material to the cutting rotor. Material feed rate is operated by load, i.e. when the cutting rotor is operating at maximum electrical consumption, the feed system automatically switches off until the material in the system has been processed....

Red and grey model PY1300 pallet breaker.

Friday August 14, 2015

PY Series Pallet Breaker

The PY series is suitable for whole/or part wooden pallets, packaging and other bulky materials, breaking them down into hand size pieces....

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