Fornnax unveils its largest shredder

India-based Fornnax Technology has introduced its new R4000-HD shredder model at IFAT India 2023 in Mumbai. Fornnax calls the new model “a trump card in aspects of making the tire recycling business profitable, with formidable performance efficacy criteria.”

At the IFAT event, Pravin Darade, principal secretary of the Environment and Climate Change Department of the Indian state of Maharashtra, helped inaugurate the R4000-HD.

Visitors had the opportunity to learn about the machine’s capabilities and innovative principles.

Fornnax says the R4000HD is a powerful machine designed to make secondary shredding and steel separation more efficient and profitable than ever when processing scrap tires.

The company calls the R4000-HD shredder a radical addition to the preexisting fleet of Fornnax’s stable, adding that the machine is designed to process materials beyond tires, including cable scrap, obsolete electronics and aluminum scrap.

Fornnax says benefits of the R4000-HD include a hydraulic hopper and screen opening designed to make maintenance procedures easier and provide convenient access to the cutting chamber; fourfold use and multiple-time regrinding blades, with reversible screens, designed to provide long service life to and lower operating costs; a “specific stop” feature designed to control material feeding according to machine load percentages, ideally delivering production efficiency; a rapid screen change system; and a hard-faced rotor and replaceable wear plates designed to help reduce the need for frequent replacements and increase the shredder’s lifespan.

The equipment maker says its new shredder offers 13,500 cuts per minute at an operating speed of 270 rpm, “making it the most powerful machine in the industry.”

“The idea to make a secondary shredding machine that can showcase such major characteristics when compared to its counterparts was the brainchild of Mr. Jignesh Kundaria, the director of Fornnax,” the company says.

“Fornnax Technology has made a significant move with the R 4000-HD—a solid and robust machine ideal for operating in the most challenging conditions, along with an eminent service life of 20 to 25 years.”

The company says it intends to use the R4000-HD as a gateway to enhance its international footprint. It sees global markets at cement plants, where tire-derived fuel (TDF) plants are common and with global recyclers who have established TDF sales markets.

“The markets of Kuwait, Oman and Qatar in the Middle East have an enormous supply of scrap tires,” Fornnax says, citing a change to Australian law to regarding the import of baled tires.