The Red Giant, otherwise known as the Hammel VB950DK, is powered by a 640 horsepower CAT engine and can process 200 tonnes of waste per hour, but has very low running costs, according to its manufacturers.
 Hammel's new Red Giant shredder |
Tommy Flinn, of Hammel's UK agent Wilkie Recycling Systems, said: “Hammel is strongly established as a leading waste shredder in the UK with nearly 60 new machines supplied. The new model will prove an ideal machine for landfill operators who have vast material flow and enable us to expand our activities in this sector.”
Mr Flinn said shredding waste had been proven to increase landfill use by compacting material, and also reduced leachate and gas levels.
The Red Giant, which was launched at the recent Entsorga exhibition in Cologne, Germany, has an 11 cubic metre tilting hopper where material is taken in. Waste then enters a 2 x 2.5 metre shredding chamber and is discharged onto a 5 metre high conveyor belt.
Colin Wilkie of Wilkie subsidiary WRS Ireland said Hammel shredders had proved a success in Ireland. “We now have 11 machines operating in Ireland in waste transfer and timber recycling stations and our name is spreading,” he said. “It is our intention to establish, as with the UK, The Hammel Shredder as Ireland's leading brand of shredder.”
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