Smaller console devices do everything from shredding paper with crosscut knives to putting a large imprint, such as a W, across CDs to make them unreadable. Selling to the GSA is not their mainstay, she explains, but most shredders are sold for commercial purposes. Security Engineered Machinery also sells small paper shredders. Although Security Engineered Machinery disintegrators are sold through dealers, the shredders are vertically sold directly by the manufacturer, Dempsey says. The age of the strip shredder is coming to an end.
Crosscut knives are the preferred devices.
One reason is that strip shredding puts out eight times the volume of waste compared to crosscut shredding. One of the biggest questions in the office is who s going to change the bag for the shredder, and Dempsey says it needs to be changed frequently with the strip shredder. For that reason, a crosscutting shredder is usually preferred over a strip-cutting shredder. Over the past few years, however, we have seen more and more interest in crosscut shredders. Companies are concerned not only with greater security but also waste management.