Combined Resources installs Weima shredder

Combined Resources, a recycling company headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, has boosted production at its Nashville plant by updating its shredding equipment.

The company’s new shredder from Weima, based in Fort Mill, South Carolina, has increased its throughput, according to company President Steve Ollech.

Ollech says, “Originally, I had purchased another brand of shredder, and it wasn’t doing what it was supposed to do. Since we’ve replaced that shredder with a Weima machine, we’ve seen an increase in throughput, we’ve had significantly fewer problems and it is much easier to maintain.”

The new shredder, a Weima WLK 18 Jumbo, is being used to shred books, roll stock, slab waste, signatures/skeleton waste, paper cores and old corrugated containers (OCC) that Combined Resources purchases from area printers. The material is shredded and then sent to paper mills, where it is repulped and formed back into tissues and napkins.

The Weima WLK18 Jumbo has a rotor with a 19-inch diameter in a v-rotor design. It is fed by an in-feed pit conveyor and discharges to a reversible horizontal conveyor, which allows Combined Resources to separate various material streams, the company says. Over time, the operation accumulates different types of material.

According to Weima, following the installation of the Weima shredder, Combined Resources has seen its throughput rate increase to 63 tons per day, while the shredder has reduced its run time by one hour per day to seven hours each day.

“We’re able to shred more product and we’re saving on labor. Preventative maintenance is easy, so I don’t have to worry about downtime like I did before. This was by far the best buy of the decade for my operation,” Ollech notes.