About Us

Industrial Paper Shredders, Inc.                                   

Since the mid 1850’s when Industrial Paper Shredders, Inc. was called the Silver and Deming Mfg. Co., the company has manufactured shredders. In the beginning, the company built farm machinery. The IPS “Knife mill” shredders would shred corn, clover, straw for animal fodder and paper for the animal bedding.

The Knife mill shredders come in 5 various sizes with comparable horse power and strength and are custom built for specific applications ranging from tissue paper, office paper, newspaper, cardboard, white board, plastics, some food products, textiles and thin metals. The addition of a compressing top conveyor is optional. This conveyor system exerts powerful pressure to flatten bulky material or cartons, or cores and force feeds them into the shredder.

In the 1950’s a “Slitter” shredder was introduced into the line of shredders. The “Slitter” principal shreds material into uniform strips using individual rotary discs, heat treated and knurled to assure positive security and consistent shred size.

A need for industrial crosscut shredders was seen in the 1960’s and hence, the engineering team at IPS built a shredding system by combining the “Slitter” shredder as the front of the machine, allowing the material to be stripped into long strips and the “knife mill” attached to the back end which then took those strips and chopped them into pieces. These are what we now call the Combo shredder.

The talented engineering and product development staff of Industrial Shredders continue to provide shredding solutions for any project. Whether document destruction or waste reduction, there is not a shredding project we will not pursue. At Industrialshredders.com we provide Knife mill shredders, slitter shredders, Combo crosscut shredders and crusher shredders and more.

Identity Theft

The information and identity theft are two growing concerns in the world today. Chipping and shredding files can prevent the terrible losses that can occur when information from a person or company that has been stolen. Paper Shredders destroy sensitive documents that contain private information that could cause problems if you get the wrong people. Part of the sensitive information often found on paper items includes birth dates, Social Security numbers, bank account numbers and business plans or other items related to finance.