Rotochopper celebrates 30th anniversary

Rotochopper, St. Martin, Minnesota, announced Dec. 10 that the company is celebrating its 30^th year delivering waste grinding solutions. Through Rotochopper’s offerings, companies have been able to find solutions that turn waste materials into profitable end products like colored landscape mulch, animal bedding, compost and more.

According to the company, the history behind the Rotochopper name is about more than innovation in grinding equipment, it’s about a group of people with a different philosophy toward waste materials and a focus on customer success. The Rotochopper brand began when two companies from different industries joined to manufacture a new kind of recycling equipment. The company’s cofounders, Fred Peltz and Vince Hundt, established Rotochopper’s core values of customer-centricity and “perfect in one pass” engineering that continue to define Rotochopper today.

“For 30 years, the people of central Minnesota—who are Rotochopper—have been inventing and building machines that solve problems,” Hundt says.

The company has expanded its product offerings over the last three decades in response to its customers’ evolving business and operational needs. Today, the company offers horizontal grinders to serve a broad range of materials including not only wood waste, but organic waste, food waste and municipal waste.

“The Rotochopper name means 30 years of working with customers and industry partners who share our vision for profitable, sustainable approaches to waste and recycling. We've been fortunate from the beginning to be able to collaborate with people who are committed to exploring new solutions for some big challenges, like green waste and MSW,” Rotochopper COO Jamey Brick says. 

“The best is yet to come. We remain excited and ready to build on the legacy that our company founders created. Our team is strong, and the passion, energy and expertise of our people will empower growth and innovation for the next 30 years,” Rotochopper CEO Tosh Brinkerhoff says.