Polycarbonate Shredder & PC Plastic Grinder for Recycling

Yes — PC is a thermoplastic and recycles well mechanically. Clean PC regrind is bought by compounders (often for PC-ABS blends), sheet extruders and molders making non-optical parts, and it commands engineering-plastic rates precisely because virgin polycarbonate is expensive. The price you get tracks the quality you deliver: clear, colour-sorted, metal-free, dry regrind earns the premium; mixed, dirty lots get commodity treatment. That quality is decided at your grinding stage, not at the buyer’s gate.

The RE-series application chart covers this directly: the RE16 model handles bottles and jars up to 10 litres, and the RE20 handles jars up to 20 litres — which includes the standard 19-litre water jar. Feed the jar whole, and the five-blade rotor cuts it against the screen into regrind. If your jars come with caps and label sleeves, plan to strip them first to keep the lot pure. We recommend a trial with your actual jars at our Mumbai works so you can verify throughput and regrind size yourself — see the Plastic Grinder page for the full model table.

Size decides. Offcuts that fit the grinder throat (up to 30″ × 30″ on the largest model) can grind directly. Full-length roofing sheets, bundled offcuts and thick multiwall stacks are better shredded first on the S3-600, whose 600 × 1000 mm side hopper and slow 80 rpm, high-torque rotor are made for bulky rigid material; the shred then grinds to final size. Running oversize sheet through an undersized throat wastes labour on pre-cutting — buy for the largest piece you actually generate.

Because PC’s defining property is impact resistance — it is the material chosen for machine guards and security glazing precisely because it deforms rather than shatters. Brittle plastics crack and surrender to the blades; PC pushes back and demands genuine cutting force. That is why thick PC favours slow, high-torque shredding (the S3-600 approach) and sharp, hardened blade sets rather than light, high-speed machines that stall or overheat on tough sections.

Four disciplines. Sort by colour — clear and tinted PC are separate products. Keep PC apart from acrylic and other transparent look-alikes, because one wrong sheet contaminates a lot. Strip caps, gaskets, silicone seals, metal frames and fittings before feeding — metal breaks blades and even small foreign-polymer fractions hurt pricing. And bag the regrind dry in sealed sacks, since PC absorbs moisture. Buyers who pay top rates will audit exactly these four things.

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.

Yes — bring a representative lot (jars, sheet offcuts or technical parts) to our works at Andheri East, Mumbai, and we will run it live so you can check throughput, regrind size and output cleanliness before committing. Outstation buyers can request a video trial on their material. Contact us to book a slot.

Routine care is blade sharpening and lubrication — the grinder’s 5-blade set and the S3-600’s blades are removable for periodic sharpening, and an overload-protection starter guards the grinder motor. Keep metal out of the chamber and the blades last far longer. We provide installation and on-site maintenance service, support machines pan-India with spares from Mumbai, and for export orders we fit motors matched to your country’s voltage and frequency.