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Industrial shredders are conveyor fed shredders designed for higher volumes applications. Instead of feeding sheets into a slot, your just toss piles of sheets on to the conveyor and the conveyor feeds the piles of paper into large, hardened steel cutting heads. Industrial shredders can work as stand alone units or with integrated balers. This article is designed to answer some of the most commonly asked questions concerning Industrial shredders.

Is an industrial shredder right for my company?

Industrial shredders allow you to do for yourself what you normally hire a shredding service to do, which is to reduce the cost of shredding by consolidating the shredding of numerous employees, using a high capacity shredder. This allows the bulk of shredding to be done by one, lower cost employee (lower as compared to your expensive office workers, administrators and even managers) and therefore reduce the overall cost of shredding. You can begin to cost justify an industrial shredder at about 500 pounds of shredding per week. The more shredding your company does, the more cost effective an industrial shredder becomes.

How much can an industrial shredder shred per hour?

Industrial shredders can shred from 750 to about 2,250 pounds of paper per hour, depending on the cut type. Seven hundred fifty pounds of paper would be about 15 large file boxes of paper, file folders, mail and other items commonly shredded. Each file box will typically weigh about 50 pound when full, so 2,250 pounds would be about 45 large file boxes.

How can I estimate how much shredding my company does?

One method is by number of employees. The average office worker in the US shreds about 50 sheets of paper per day. This includes self generated documents, incoming mail and items purged from filing cabinets. This translates into about 2.5 pounds of shredding per employee, per week. So a typical company with 250 office workers on site will probably shred about 625 pounds per week. Another method is to count the number of shred boxes and bins in use and multiply as appropriate by the capacity of each type of box or bin. The most common shred box sizes are the 36″ and 27″ boxes which hold 65 and 45 pounds of paper respectively. The most popular bin sizes are the 92 and 64 gallon bins which hold 350 and 250 pounds respectively.

Is it less expensive to use an industrial shredder, or to hire a shredding service?

Your price from a shredding service will depend on a few factors:

Your shredding volume, the higher the volume, the lower the unit cost.

The security level of the shredding that you desire. The higher the security level, the longer it takes to shred.

The logistics of your facility (this determines how long it will take the driver to walk around and empty all the bins.)

How often do you want your shred bins emptied? More visits mean a higher price.

Does your shred service provide the shred boxes and shred bins free of charge?

Do you want on-site or plant based shredding?

Shredding services will typically price by the bin (sometimes called by the tip) or they will charge by the minute/hour. Some services also charge for pick-up (also called visit charges

Industrial paper shredders are used to shred large volumes of paper. These are perfect for use in large companies, outsourced shredding companies, large corporations, banks, businesses, and warehouses. Industrial paper shredders can manage all your paper shredding needs in a cost effective, secure, and convenient way. Industrial paper shredders are able to destroy substantial workloads more efficiently. They are available in crosscut and strip cut versions.

Industrial paper shredders are generally designed to shred about 2,000 sheets of paper at a time. They can also shred large number of computer printouts, cardboard boxes, carbon ribbon cassettes, file folders, plastic bottles, floppy disks, CD?s, aluminum cans, cartridges, and more. In short, Industrial paper shredders can cater to the shredding requirements of an entire organization.

A number of manufacturers provide paper shredders for industrial use. Ameri-Shred Corp, Dahle, MBM, Kobra, Offis Life, and Olympia are some among them. Popular models of industrial paper shredders include Kobra Cyclone and Dahle XC-100. These are suitable for a variety of applications such as high security shredding, pharmaceutical, and commercial shredding. Most suppliers also offer online services and warranty programs to the buyers.

Most industrial shredders come with conveyor belts, hoppers, and balers. Automatic start/stop, simple bag change, key-lock control, quiet operation, and auto bag full stop are the key features of industrial shredders. Industrial paper shredders with additional features such as solid steel cutters, casters, standby operation indicator, and optional paper tray are also available in the market.

Periodic oiling is necessary for industrial paper shredders. Lubricating oil helps the shredder to run quietly and smoothly.

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Overview: The Intimus GC208 Business Card Slitter is designed for creating small runs of high quality full bleed business cards without the need to outsource. Any organization with a color copier and a frequent need to order business cards will find that the GC208 pays for itself quite nicely. It is ideal for printers, copy shops, in-plant print shops and human resource departments looking to produce their own high quality, full bleed business cards. The GC208 comes with a CD on which you will find templates to help with the layout of your business cards in four popular applications: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Quark and Illustrator.

Strengths / Features: Although there are a number of different business card slitters available on the market, the GC-208 is one of the only gutter cut business card slitters that is commercially available. It is designed to produce high quality full bleed business cards out of letter sized sheets printed on your color laser printer or photocopier. By overprinting the template, it is possible to have your graphics run to the very edge of for full bleed business cards. The GC208 business card slitter is capable of completing up to 300 finished business cards per minute. This is fast enough for commercial applications where speed and productivity are essential. This machine has a feeder that is capable of handling a stack of sheets up to 5/8″ thick. You can load the sheets into the feeder, place the weights on top of the stock and let the machine do its work. The GC208 is a floor standing unit that comes mounted on castors. The business card slitting unit is mounted on a special waste bin for no-mess production. Plus, the whole unit is mounted on wheels to allow you to push the unit out of the way when it is not in use.

Weaknesses / Limitations: The GC208 business card slitter requires a two step operation for cutting business cards. First, you feed the letter sized sheets into the lower station of the machine and it cuts them into two 3.5″ strips and cuts the waste off the sides. Then you feed the cut strips sideways through the upper station to separate the four, full bleed imprinted cards. It’s best to do all of your length-wise cuts, and then all of your side-ways cuts. Although the machine is fast (300 cards per minute) cutting business cards is still a hands on process. Because full bleed imprinting requires an overprint on all four sides of the card, the GC208 is limited to producing only 8 cards per 8

Overview: The Martin Yale 1701 Autofolder is a high quality auto setup paper folder that is ideal for churches, small copy shops, mailrooms, or corporate departments that have numerous users and/or have a need for multiple types of folds. It is an automatic setup folder which simply means that you can press a button or two on the machine in order to choose the desired paper size and folding style. The fold plates move into position automatically. This makes the Martin Yale 1701 easy to setup and easy to use even for users who don’t have any training or experience using a paper folding machine.

Strengths / Features: One of the best things about the 1701 Martin Yale Autofolder is the cost. It is the lowest cost auto setup folder available on the market. With a selling price of around $1500 it is priced similarly to manual setup paper folder from other manufacturers but is much easier to use. The auto setup features of the 1701 make it incredibly simple to operate. You simply choose the size of paper that you want to fold and the folding pattern that you want to use. In just a couple of seconds, the machine will move the folding plates into position and you are ready to begin folding. This makes the 1701 an excellent choice for organizations that use multiple folding patterns or who have users who struggle to set up complicated mechanical equipment. The Martin Yale 1701 is capable of handling letter size, legal size and A4 paper. It can create be set to six different folding patterns including: letter fold, half fold, z-fold, double parallet, right angle and baronial. Or if you have a custom fold or need to fold a sheet as small as 3-1/2″ x 5″, it can be manually adjusted to handle these as well. The 1701 can fold stapled sets of up to 5 sheets through its manual bypass. These have to be fed into the machine one set a time. The 1701 has a feed tray that is capable of handling up to 150 sheets of 20lb paper. This helps to improve productivity without having to worry about reloading the folder every few seconds.

Weaknesses / Limitations: The 1701 does not have an adjustable speed setting. This means that the speed of the folder cannot be reduced for folding specialty papers or thicker stocks. The Martin Yale 1701 is an excellent choice for folding 20lb, 24lb and 28lb paper. However, it is not designed for folding heavy card stocks, slick glossy papers or papers with special coatings. These types of stocks will most likely cause paper jams inside the 1701 folder. Although the 1701 is capable of folding letter, legal and A4 paper it is not capable of handling 11″ x 17″ or A3 sized papers. If you are looking for an automatic setup folder that can handle these larger sizes of paper you will need to check out the Intimus 2051 or a similar commercial grade folding machine. Although the 1701 paper folder is an automatic setup folder it is still necessary in some cases and for some folding patterns to adjust the output stacker wheel manually. Only the largest automatic setup folders adjust the stacker wheel automatically. The 1701 requires removal of the side covers and the top roller safety cover to clean the rollers. Once these parts are removed the rollers can be easily cleaned, but the process of gaining access to the rollers takes about 10 to 15 minutes. Most users will only need to do this about every 6 months.

Recommendation: The Martin Yale 1701 is best suited for organizations that have numerous users who may not know how to manually set up a folding machine, or for organizations that frequently change fold types and don’t want to hassle with constant set-ups. This paper folding machine makes changing paper sizes and folding patterns simple and is ideal for users who will only use the folding machine on an occasional basis, and may not remember how to set up the machine every time. However, organizations that need to fold sheets larger than legal size or heavier paper stocks will most likely find that the 1701 folder will not meet their needs. These users should consider a larger automatic setup folding machine such as the Intimus 2051 or the Formax FD380.

If you need more information or would like to purchase the Martin Yale 1701 Autofolder Automatic Setup Paper Folding Machine or any of the other Paper Folders that we carry please feel to visit our site or contact us with your questions.

This review was written by Jeff McRitchie who is the director of marketing for Mybinding.com. Jeff has written more than three hundred articles and more than two hundred reviews on Binding Machines, Binding Supplies, Report Covers, 3-Ring Binders, Index Tabs, Laminators, Laminating Supplies, Paper Shredders and Paper Handling Equipment

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