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The proprietor, Wolfgang Schmitt, bases this strategy entirely on HSM. In total, there are now three machines from HSM located on the 15,000 square metre business premises in the Fulda suburb Besges. From the “HSM Powerline HDS 230“ hard disc shredder through the “DuoShredder 6060“ document shredder to a “VK 12018 RFU“, the second largest channel baling press from the HSM range. “HSM is the only supplier who provides the entire spectrum for a recycling operation, which we find to be a major advantage“, Wolfgang Schmitt says. “We receive everything from one source.“
Since April 2015, Schmitt Recycling has been working with a large document shredder which is fed via an underfloor conveyor and which has a high throughput of up to 2500 kilogrammes per hour. The DuoShredder 6060 shreds documents together with files, the metal components are sorted magnetically. It is therefore no longer necessary for Wolfgang Schmitt to delegate an employee just to separate the paper from the files. In addition, he values the additional security feature of his new document shredder: the small particle size of (10.5 x 40 millimetres) is a clear product advantage.
Schmitt Recycling should be in exactly the right position with his decision in favour for the VK 12018: Schmitt was full of praise because instead of the scheduled ten days, the machine with the impressive dimensions was installed and ready for operation within four days. “Planning, project management and implementation were all top notch“, he said. His company profits from the high capacity of the baling press. The theoretical throughput was increased by 50 percent compared to the old machine. Within a fraction, Schmitt Recycling is in the position to press a bale weighing approximately one tonne in two to three minutes. The new bale size also has some advantages: the change from bales which were previously 80 x 100 centimetres to the size of 110 x 110 centimetres not only lowers the company’s wire costs, but also has logistic advantages. Both company-internal due to fewer trips with the forklift and a lower storage space requirement as well as externally since a truck is loaded with 30 bales and no longer with 50.

The frequency-regulated drive of the HSM press reduces the energy costs of the machine for the Fulda company by up to 30 percent compared to the previous model. And, as Schmitt is convinced, energy costs “will need our attention more and more in the future since they are an important cost factor.“ It also benefits him that the cleaning mode in the HSM machine works well because as a relatively small company, Schmitt often changes the fractions to deliver his products at maximum quality to the purchasers. Schmitt presses more than ten different materials with the baling press in addition to paper and cardboard packaging, there are also power cables and car bumpers. And finally, visitors to the recycling company are also impressed by a quite different quality of the HSM product, the company founder relates. He heard from them that they found the machine simply to be an aesthetic success. “We did not know that technology can look so good,“ the customers apparently told their recycling business. Wolfgang Schmitt is convinced that even if the VK 12018 is somewhat too large for the amount of waste in the Fulda company at the moment, “it is precisely the right machine for our company“. With the VK 12018, he has the “potential for expansion“ in the coming years.
The purchase of the HSM hard disc shredder, HSM Powerline HDS 230, is also a forward looking move. Wolfgang Schmitt is convinced that data security will become increasingly important in the future. Hard disc data cannot be deleted completly and nobody can afford to allow his data to be read by an unauthorised party. Therefore, shredding the hard discs is “the only functioning method“ to make data unreadable. In addition, it is a very elegant way of getting to the valuable raw materials which are hidden in each hard disc.