Laminate Shredder Machine for Multi-Layer Packaging & Lamitubes

Multilayer plastic cannot be melted back into a single clean polymer the way PET or HDPE can — but it has recognised end-of-life routes in India: co-processing as fuel in cement kilns, energy recovery, and use in road construction, all of which require the material in shredded, handleable form. That is the practical meaning of laminate recycling today, and it is what EPR documentation for MLP is built around. The shredder is the gateway step: it converts unwieldy reels and cartons of rejects into a stream a registered offtaker will actually accept.

Because intact printed laminate is counterfeit raw material. A reel of misprinted wrappers or a carton of obsolete sachet film carries your brand, your batch formats and your artwork — in the wrong hands it packages fake product that lands in the market under your name. Shredding on your own premises, before the material leaves your custody, removes that risk completely. It also reduces volume dramatically, which cuts disposal transport cost, and produces the documented destruction trail your audit and EPR teams need.

Empty lamitubes — production rejects, expired stock with product removed — shred readily in the laminate shredder. For filled rejected tubes, Raj Electricals has built a Lami Tube Squeezing and Product Recovery Machine: it recovers the product (which often has salvage or disposal value of its own) before the tube goes for destruction. Whether squeezing-plus-shredding or direct shredding suits you depends on your reject volumes and what the recovered product is worth — describe your stream in your enquiry and we will recommend the configuration.

High-speed single-rotor machines rely on clean cutting, and flexible laminate refuses to be cut cleanly — it stretches, folds and winds itself around the rotor until the machine stalls. A dual shaft shredder works on the opposite principle: two slow shafts with interlocked blades grip the material between them and tear it through. There is nothing for the laminate to wrap around, and the high torque at low speed handles bundled reels and compressed pouches without drama. That is why the laminates waste shredder range is dual shaft by design.

It varies by route — cement co-processors and energy-recovery plants each specify their own acceptable size, so confirm with your offtaker before finalising the machine. The dual shaft stage produces strips; where smaller, more uniform pieces are required, a secondary machine like the RE20 plastic waste machine reduces them further, and on customized builds the output size can be defined by mesh from 1 mm to 30 mm or more. Tell us your offtaker’s specification and we will size the line to deliver it.

Every machine is quoted to the job. What moves the number is capacity, throat size, motor rating, MS or SS construction and the automation you add — a blower, a conveyor, a control panel. Our guide to what drives machine cost walks through each of those; send us your material and daily volume and we will size the machine and quote it, usually the same day.

Size for your steady converter stream, not the occasional obsolete-stock purge. Trims and misprints arrive predictably with production; expired stock arrives in lumps a few times a year. A machine sized to clear your monthly steady stream in comfortable shifts will also clear a purge in a few extra days — that is cheaper than owning idle capacity year-round. Weigh a typical month’s reject laminate, share the figure along with your purge volumes, and our machine selection guide approach will land you on the right model.

Yes to both. Before purchase, bring or courier sample reels, pouches or tubes to our works at Andheri East, Mumbai for a live or recorded trial — you see exactly what the shred looks like and how fast your material processes. After installation, shredding happens inside your own plant under your team’s supervision, which is precisely the point: the material is destroyed before it ever leaves your custody. Contact us to arrange a trial slot.