Industrial shredder is conveyor fed shredder designed for higher volumes applications. Industrial shredder allows 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.
An industrial shredder can shred bulky documents. Even if your company generates a lot of disposable documents, this shredder would take care of this. You would end up easily getting rid of all your papers and even identity documents at a mass scale easily. The papers would be cut into a few thousand pieces, almost turning them into dusts, so that it is practically impossible to reengineer them. This ensures security of your private documents and ensures compliance to the legal clauses of security as given out by the federal system.
Additionally, industrial shredder shreds papers in such a way that they can be recycled. Even, many industrial shredders have inbuilt balers these days. The bale generated can be taken to your local center for recycling. That makes it environment friendly too.
With the newer privacy and security laws applicable in most places, you surely also want to protect the documentation of your company as well as your identity objects such as credit cards to be safe on the legal side. An industrial shredder in this case offers a great help because it can shred not only paper but also harder objects such as boxes and cardboards. This machine can also shred books, CDs, data disks and in some cases even pieces of metal.
Industrial shredder 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.
If you decide to purchase industrial shredder, the cost of this shredder usually depends on three factors, including the hourly labor rate of the person you designate to do the shredding, the purchase price or monthly lease, maintenance cost, capacity, and projected life span of your shredder, and overhead costs such as collection (emptying the bins), shredder bags, shredder oil and maintenance. However, you do not need to worry about its cost because luckily, all of these costs are easily anticipated and can be controlled with an effective security plan.
The main point of purchasing industrial shredder is that by installing your own industrial shredder, buying your own bins and developing your own plan, you are essentially employing the same logic and economy of scale that the shredding service uses and you keep the savings. Finally, the more shredding your company does, the more cost effective an industrial shredder becomes.