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  • Erdwich – Shredding unlimited
    Innovation comes as standard.

    As a highly-specialised engineering and manufacturing company, ERDWICH can draw on over 40 years of experience to offer superior services in recycling and shredder technology.

    Shredders, custom solutions, turnkey recycling facilities and a global service form our core competencies, all supported on a day-to-day basis by our passionate and committed team.

    More than 7.000 machines in over 91 countries throughout the world are the calling card for our unique and successful corporate philosophy, which places our customers and their needs at the centre of our decisions and actions – with no ifs or buts.

    Whether you’re looking to process metal swarf, refrigeration units, electronic scrap, printed circuit boards, cardboard, plastics, special or bulky waste – we have the solution you need.

Product Portfolio

  • Crushers, shredders and bespoke recycling plant

  • We are a highly-specialised engineering and manufacturing company working in recycling and shredder technology. Our core competencies are shredding machinery, turnkey systems and comprehensive services.

    Whether you work in heavy industry or waste management – if the job involves shredding and recycling, ERDWICH is the one to call. Our shredders, rippers, hammer mills and turnkey systems ensure efficient material breakdown, either as stand-alone shredding machines or integrated into existing shredding and recycling plant.

    ERDWICH shredders are also top of the class when it comes to ease of maintenance. Whether you’re recycling metal swarf, WEEE scrap, refrigeration plant, substitute fuels or cardboard, we can always offer you a solution perfectly matched to your needs. And we can give you a conclusive answer to any other challenge you may have.

    ...Shredding unlimited....

      • Shredding Machines

      • High-class quality and superior technology!

        When it comes to specific application solutions for shredding and recycling you are absolutely right at Erdwich. Our shredding machines, hammer mills and plants evidencing in over 80 countries worldwide that high-class quality and superior technology pay off. Our machines perform their best every day for customers in different sectors.

        And one thing is uniting:

        The right decision for sophisticated and beneficial technology.
        The decision for shredding machines, hammer mills and plant engineering by Erdwich.

          • Single-Shaft Shredder

          • The all-rounders for any application.

            Achieving precision material breakdown in just a single operation: that’s the proven capability of the Erdwich single-shaft shredder.
            How does it do it? The material is taken up by the cutting rotor and shredded repeatedly against the stator blade, using the tried-and-tested rotor/stator principle. This continues until the desired size has been achieved and the material can pass through the perforated screen underneath. The result is impressive: superior efficiency and optimum reliability for predefined fragment sizes.

          • Two-Shaft Shredder

          • The high-volume, high-quantity swarf specialists.

            Continuous-process shredding of large quantities and volumes: that’s the world of the Erdwichg two-shaft shredder. The secret of its success is our Erdwich rotor-blade cutting principle, honed to perfection over decades.

            The material is taken up by the barbed blade, pulled unceremoniously into the machine and then shredded between the blades on the two opposing shafts. Whatever the material – e.g. special waste, WEEE, metal swarf, electrical waste or bulky items – even hard to shred, large-volume materials stand no chance against these two mighty cutter shafts. Perfect results are even guaranteed from fibrous, moist, heat-sensitive, elastic and rubbery materials. And, thanks to its mode of operation as a slow-speed piece of equipment, the Erdwich two-shaft shredder also features quiet and largely dust-free operation.

          • Three-Shaft Shredder

          • The experts for bulky materials.
            The uniform shredding of coarse materials: that’s the speciality of the Erdwich three-shaft shredder. Erdwich has created the three-shaft design especially for these requirements. Entirely free of clogging and jamming – even with solid materials. Clever, huh?

            Absolutely: after all, the three cutter shafts and their individual sets of blades rotate at different speeds, so as to continuously pull in and precisely shred the feedstock material. If the material is too large, the sweeper shaft simply transfers the material to the lower cutter shafts for further size reduction. Again and again – until the material is the exact size as specified. Tirelessly, and with perfect reliability. Fragment size selection itself is achieved by the perforated screen substructure through which the material exits after the shredding process.

          • Cardboard Shredder

          • Economical solutions for shredding and processing.
            Reducing transportation costs, compressing material for feeding to existing pressed-waste containers or baling presses, or shredding of material for conveyor belt feeding are good reasons for deploying a cardboard shredder.

            With the EKZ cardboard shredder and FKZ paperboard shredder, Erdwich two rugged machines offer 100% process reliability in a range of form factors. Whether you need to shred packaging or process cardboard waste for feeding into existing conveyor systems, Erdwich can always offer you a perfect solution tailored to your requirements.

            Space-saving space cardboard box disposal.
            Light, easy to use and, most importantly, fully recyclable – cardboard boxes are becoming increasingly popular as packaging material The members of the Corrugated Cardboard Industry Association (Verband der Wellpappen-Industrie) alone sold around 1.9 billion square meters in the first quarter of 2017. However, recycling used cardboard boxes can be problematic, not least because the folded cardboard boxes are becoming increasingly large and require a lot of space. Therefore it is useful for packaging manufacturers and service providers to use a special shredding facility to shred cardboard boxes and to simplify the disposal process. The EKZ cardboard box compacter used by Erdwich Zerkleinerungssysteme GmbH is ideal for shredding cardboard. Thanks to its low-maintenance chain drive, wear-resistant tearing segments and a scraper system that was specially designed for this application field, it has high availability and is extremely reliable.

          • Two-Shaft Ripper

          • The resource-saving shredder for processing electronic waste.

            When processing electronic scrap, the aim is not merely to ensure the highest levels of process reliability and performance, but to salvage components such as capacitors and batteries intact where possible.
            Here, the the RM 1350/2 coarse shredder really struts its stuff: with the especially slow-running twin-shaft rotor/shredder system, the machine is especially resource-friendly and so ensures a large quota of intact capacitors and batteries.

          • Hammer Mill

          • The champions for hard and brittle materials.
            Hammer mills are particularly suitable for metal scrap, electrical and electronic scrap or swarf made of steel, aluminium, but also other materials. And due to the easy adjustability during operation, also the baling of non-ferrous metals is no problem. The resultant size is variable and can be changed during operation. This product feature in particular is the best example of its high practicability in use.

        • Application Areas

        • For every application the perfect solution.
          Our standards are clearly expressed: For every application the perfect solution.

          As every customer requirement is different: Volume, field of application, through-put, technology grade and a lot more parameters are considered individually during designing each construction. For metal swarf, e-waste, refrigerators, fuel surrogates, cartons or special waste – thousands of plants in operation enthuse our customers. By highest economic efficiency and functionality. Day per day. In our test center we have the possibility to test every field of application and every further solution under real conditions. Benefit from our experience and competence.

            • Metal swarf shredding

            • Erdwich even makes short work of metal chips.

              In metal-working shops utilising swarf-producing manufacturing techniques, the generated swarf is often an underestimated cost factor:

              • The machine operator must drive swarf containers away instead of working productively on the machine tool.
              • If the swarf container becomes overfilled, swarf re-enters the conveyor system. As a result, the conveyor jams and the machine is halted. This means your expensive machine tool cannot attain its full productive potential. The key challenge here is therefore: Process reliability.

            • Electrical and electronic scrap recycling

            • Customer-specific solutions offering WEEE Directive compliance.

              One of the greatest challenges facing our society is the reclamation of valuable raw materials from electrical and electronic scrap.

              A global scrap volume exceeding 40 million tonnes a year – a figure forecast to double by 2025 – presents both a challenge and an opportunity. Since even in Germany only some 40% of scrap is currently fed into a waste management process, we may assume that the global rate of waste management is still substantially lower.

              With additional support from WEEE Directive legislation, this represents enormous growth potential for recycling companies in all consumer-oriented markets.

            • Refrigerator recycling

            • Recycle your cooling units efficiently and safely.

              Several million scrap refrigerator units are disposed of every year in Germany alone. The proportion of refrigeration units recycled by volume totals about 40% and is the most significant segment after consumer electronics.
              One particular challenge in this recycling process is presented by chlorofluorocarbons such as R 11, R 12 or R 141b, which were used for decades as foaming agents for insulation materials. Since these substances damage the Earth’s ozone layer when released, they must be removed and collected securely in a closed-system pre-processing plant.

            • Casting parts

            • Making Short Work Of Bulky Cast Elements.

              Many light and non-ferrous metal foundries are faced with the difficult hurdle of dealing with bulky waste consisting of punching burrs or rejects, which are a hindrance to optimal processing.
              Casting machines which involve the investment of many millions of euros cannot be used to their full capacity because production waste cannot be removed quickly enough.

              But it does not have to be that way!

              Safe reprocessing of cast elements - with us, no cast part can resist any more
              We help you with our shredders installed directly by the casting cell / die-casting machine.

            • Llithium-ion batteries

            • Innovative technology for a sustainable circular economy.

              Electromobility is revolutionizing the way we get around. How- ever, as the number of electric vehicles increases, so does the challenge of recycling their batteries in an environmentally friendly way at the end of their service life. Conventional recycling methods often reach their limits here, as lithium-ion batteries from electric cars are large, heavy and contain valuable raw materials. Our innovative recycling plant offers a sustaina- ble and economical solution for safely and efficiently processing batteries with dimensions of up to 2,000 mm in length and a unit weight of up to 900 kg.

            • Aluminium recycling

            • Efficient processes - Safe. Flexible. Reliable.

              Aluminum is a versatile light metal that is used in numerous industries - from the automotive and packaging sectors to the electronics industry. With the increasing demand for resource saving production methods, the importance of efficient recycling is also growing. Our innovative recycling process ensures that aluminum scrap is returned to the cycle safely and economically. Even challenging input materials with impurities or alloys can be processed effectively with our technology.

            • Cardboard shredder

            • Makes even the biggest mountains of cardboard into molehills.
              Every year around 10 million tonnes of cardboard and cardboard are produced in Germany for packaging purposes. In terms of recyclability, the industry is one of the pioneers: approx. 70% of all paper products are mostly made from waste paper. A paper fiber can be reused about seven times before it becomes unusable for paper and board making.

              Reasons for volume reduction:
              • Reducing costs of transportation
              • Optimum compression of material for feeding to existing pressed-waste containers or baling presses
              • Shredding of material for conveyor belt feeding

              Recycling of paper and cardboard is very important, economically and ecologically - because the more paper is recycled, the less newly felled wood has to be used for paper production.

            • Destruction of storage media

            • Storage media containing confidential data and information are very diverse. Digital media play an increasingly important role in our era alongside the classic data carrier paper.

              All too often, however, hard disks are handled very carelessly when old equipment is disposed of. The result is that valuable information falls into the wrong hands and may cause substantial damage running into millions.

              The DIN standard 66399 takes this diversity into account and defines safety for all modern media and describes the requirements for both machines and processes for the destruction of data carriers. Standard-compliant destruction of stored data can only be achieved by mechanical destruction of the device. A recovery of data from the shredded devices is thus rendered impossible.

              Our shredders reliably destroy your data media.
              Our Erdwich technology prevents the reproduction of sensitive data. With our shredders, we offer safe and reliable destruction of storage media in accordance with DIN standard 66399. In the course of hard disk destruction, all hard disk layers, mechanisms and components are destroyed. Thus, all data are deleted irrecoverably.

              With our stationary and mobile solutions for each of the protection classes covering a total of 7 security levels, we provide an absolutely secure and efficient solution for your data destruction.

            • Plastic barrels and containers (IBCs)

            • Acids, alkalis, solvents, isocyanates - Anyone dealing with hazardous substances and transporting them in containers is always faced with the problem of proper disposal of the containers in the end.

              For a long time, the common practice of reconditioners was to dismantle used and non-reusable containers after cleaning and either recycle or dispose of each substance separately. The plastic inner containers were collected and transported by truck to the waste incineration plant. However, this method caused very high transport and disposal costs. Large-volume containers such as 200 litres barrels, refuse containers of up to 1.1 cbm, IBC containers with a capacity of up to 1.5 cbm, car bumpers and other large plastic parts can, though, be returned to the recycling process by targeted processing.

            • Special waste recycling

            • Stopping the spread of hazardous waste.
              Ever-increasing consumption across Europe, coupled with rising prosperity among the populations of the typical emerging economy are causing a sharp upturn in the volume of waste worldwide.

              Our shredding machines are perfectly suited for processing

            • Substitute fuel sampling system

            • Analytical shredding systems for QA work are a fundamental preliminary component in the production of substitute fuels.

              With primary fuels and finite resources subject to continuous price increases, the significance of substitute fuels continues to rise unabated. For plant operators, this offers first-class potential and attractive prospects for the future.

              Businesses that buy in their substitute fuel from external suppliers are faced with two key analytical requirements before putting it to use: pollutant analysis and calorific analysis. To ensure the proper handling of these analyses, a sophisticated sampling system is required.

            • Reject processing

            • During paper manufacture, waste paper and to some extent beverage cartons are reprocessed for the production of paper products. In the first stage of material processing, large quantities of waste paper are dissolved in so-called pulping drums or pulpers using process water and defibrated.

              The impurities in waste paper, mainly in the form of plastics, are separated from the paper during production. This residual fraction is known as reject and contains approx. 25% (coarse) fibres, 25% plastic and 50% moisture. Given the caloric value of this material, it is an excellent secondary fuel.

              But in order to use this material as a secondary fuel for your own needs, the material must be shredded and then dehydrated.

            • Laboratory and analysis technology

            • The shredding of solid waste materials represents an important process step in recycling technology.

              For the analysis of a sample, it is often necessary to reduce its size during sample preparation.

              Exact sample comminution for subsequent analysis.
              The aim of size reduction is to process the feed material to a defined piece size in order to prepare it optimally for subsequent process steps. Depending on your requirements, material and desired end product, we offer you customized shredding solutions.

              When it comes to shredding, different main functions are available:
              • Disintegration for the separation of composite materials
              • Production of grain sizes in order to be able to carry out varietal separation

            • Size reduction of screenings

            • The screenings cause considerable problems during disposal. In its untreated state, it is very moist and still contains a considerable proportion of easily degradable organic matter, which can lead to unpleasant odours due to spontaneous decomposition processes.

              In a sewage treatment plant, pieces of wood, plastic foils and other heavy materials are fed in via the waste water inlet. These are collected with the screenings in front of the screens and are then removed from the waste water stream during the screen clearing process.

              In order to dehydrate the screenings as much as possible before their disposal, it is necessary to shred the material. This increases the surface area of the material and improves subsequent drying. For this shredding process, twin-shaft shredders are generally used.

            • Pharmaceutical industry

            • In the production of pharmaceuticals, all batches that do not meet the official standards must be destroyed in compliance with the legal regulations for chemicals and waste. Pharmaceuticals or expired medicines must be disposed of in accordance with these regulations. Shredding and rendering the unusable products unrecognizable greatly increases the safety standards of companies.
              Not only faulty batches from production, but also rejects and expired stock must be shredded or destroyed.

              This continually presents pharmaceutical companies with the following challenges:
              • Prevent misuse
              • Dust-tight destruction processes
              • Ensure optimum disposal
              • Separate liquids from the packaging materials