UNTHA America’s sales manager, Charlie Hildebrand shares insights on recycling challenges, the evolution of shredding technology, and why people and innovation drive success in waste management.

Paper waste and pulper ropes: UNTHA transforms waste into substitute fuels – for sustainable energy in paper production.

Airbags save lives, but at the end of life, they pose explosive risks. Read how UNTHA’s shredding technology makes airbag recycling safe, compliant, and sustainable for the waste industry.

New product development: UNTHA Power Core – innovative power generator for autonomous operation of the XR and ZR shredders.

Sunnking specializes in the reuse, resale, and recycling of electronic waste. The company relies on the UNTHA RS100 to process large quantities of WEEE.

To give innovation even more room to grow, UNTHA has opened its new Technology Innovation Center—a hub for ideas, development, and collaboration.

Leading IT asset disposition (ITAD) provider, Secure Recycling required reliable shredding technology to improve operational efficiency, maximize material recovery, and lower costs.

The relaunch of the MyUNTHA customer platform offers three new or enhanced features: a spare parts catalogue and online shop, a maintenance manager and the GENIUS assistance system.

Fort Worth-based Service Waste has halved its landfill costs, tripled throughputs, and boosted operator efficiency by 50%, with the investment in a new UNTHA XR3000C stationary shredder.

The advanced generation of UNTHA RS machines features numerous new developments – all designed to offer customers even more power, more versatility and more efficiency.

UNTHA and the XR series stand for single-stage shredding as well as flexibility and customisability. The shredders are individually adapted to the customer's requirements.

At IFAT 2024 in Munich, UNTHA presented the new generation of its 4-shaft shredders: The RS series offers greater efficiency, throughput, and user-friendliness.

The UNTHA PS1300 is a reliable single-shaft shredder that has been specially developed for the recycling of wooden pallets and helps to reduce disposal costs.

The UNTHA America team headed to the CDRA World Forum last month, as 200 construction and demolition specialists gathered to discuss recycling innovations in the industry.

UNTHA America has joined the Construction & Demolition Recycling Association (CDRA), hot on the heels of the ZR pre-shredder launch in the United States.

With the ZR class, UNTHA has developed the most cost-effective 2-shaft shredder with the lowest lifecycle costing (LCC) in its class. The high-performance pre-shredder comes with two cutting systems and is available as a stationary or mobile version.

An UNTHA shredder is now in operation in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, as precision manufacturer Linda Tool gears up for further growth.

Global waste management specialist Geocycle has doubled the capacity of its co-processing facility in Costa Rica, following the investment in an UNTHA waste shredder.

UNTHA has revamped its online presence with a cutting-edge design for its website and added emphasis on user-friendliness and information content. The company has thus taken an important step towards user-focused content management.

UNTHA has developed a particularly powerful package for recycling plastics and for shredding residual wood. The shredder of the CR class is resilient and ideal for difficult requirements and extreme conditions.

The company Rohrmoser, based in Salzburg, appreciates the quality of the UNTHA LR700 shredder. Waste wood from the company’s production as well as building sites is processed by the compact shredder into high-grade fuel for a wood-chip heating system.

Morphosis, a French company, has been processing electronic scrap since 2008. Since December 2020, the company has been using an RS50 shredder from Austrian premium manufacturer UNTHA for the efficient shredding of conductor boards.

Among other things, Metran Aufbereitungsges.m.b.H. in Kematen an der Ybbs/Lower Austria specialises in the processing of rigid plastics, a fairly new waste collection category. In the XR3000C shredder by UNTHA, the company has found the perfect solution for single-phase shredding.

With the RC cutting system for the XR series, UNTHA has developed an innovative cutter geometry with improved infeed characteristics that enables a high throughput and a highly homogeneous output material.

Korn Recycling operates one of the world’s most advanced commercial waste sorting and alternative fuel processing plants in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. For more than two years, this specialist waste management plant has been using UNTHA’s XR3000C mobil-e for the recycling of residual wood and tyres.

Klaus Timber a.s. is one of the largest manufacturers of wooden pallets in the Czech Republic. Following an expansion of its production, the company has invested in the wood shredder from UNTHA. The LR1400 is used to recycle the company’s residual solid wood.

Holzbau Gerstenmayer is a timber construction company based in Lower Austria. Business has grown steadily in recent years, as have the company’s residual wood volumes. For this reason, the company has invested in an LR1000 shredder by UNTHA shredding technology.

With UNTHA GENIUS, customers are given an innovative tool for monitoring the condition of their shredders on an ongoing basis. Using reliable sensor technology, this system processes all data in real time and sends decision support directly to a smartphone, tablet or PC.

In the XR series, UNTHA has developed an energy-efficient, high-performance, wear-resistant and maintenance-friendly shredding system for a wide range of applications. An ideal area of use for the XR series is the single-phase shredding of metals.

The waste management company based in Neuendorf near Berlin focuses on the preparation of alternative fuels, supplying more than 80,000 tonnes of them each year, mostly to the cement industry. The XR3000C shredder by UNTHA is a key partner in the company's day-to-day business.

Recycling specialist Ragg GmbH has invested in a new mobile shredder from UNTHA, as the experienced waste management firm seeks to boost material throughput across its Austrian sites.

UNTHA increasingly leverages the performance and efficiency of its XR series for material recycling. Numerous shredders of this series are already being used for this particular purpose. The latest example is Schaufler, based in Ybbs an der Donau, with the XR3000C.

For SPEEDMASTER in Upper Austria first-class technical solutions and an intelligent machine pool are fundamentals for providing customized solutions in record time. When it comes to shredding chipboard panels, the LR1400 by UNTHA lives up to all the requirements.

Long-standing waste management firm Crapper & Sons has further strengthened its resource agenda, having invested in a new shredding system to transform wood waste into a biomass fuel.

Global shredding brand UNTHA has shipped its first waste shredder to Ecuador, as worldwide waste management firm Geocycle prepares to deliver new co-processing solutions for clients in the South American country.

Stipits, a full-range supplier based in Rechnitz, Burgenland, has opted for a mobile electromechanical shredding solution from UNTHA for the recycling of commercial and industrial waste. The decision was made for the XR3000C.

The newest engineering development released by UNTHA Shredding Technology has started to take Europe by storm, with 10 units of sales recorded in less than six months.

The major Swiss waste management firm Altola AG, which provides economical and ecological waste disposal solutions, has opted for UNTHA’s XR3000C wood shredder. The technological excellence of the system and a tailored test option in the pre-sales phase were decisive factors in choosing UNTHA.

Two UNTHA XR shredders are now in operation for VPK Packaging Group in continental Europe, shredding pulped ropes as part of a closed loop paper production process.

At the Wörgl site, the LR1400 wood shredder by UNTHA fulfils all the requirements for environmentally robust and efficient closed-loop materials management. The unit was installed in 2018 and is running to the customer's satisfaction.

Saubermacher Dienstleistungs AG, based in Feldkirchen, Graz has opted for a solution provided by UNTHA. The international waste disposal and recycling company is confident that the XR3000C will be fully able to meet its requirements.

Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) manufacturer Environnement 48 has increased the capacity of its waste processing facility in South West France, having invested in its second UNTHA shredder.