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Medical waste

Medical waste shredders

Allegheny engineers shredders around the material you need to handle — including medical and healthcare waste streams, from PHI-labeled packaging and expired product to the bulk material a facility needs reduced and made unrecognizable. We build the size-reduction and destruction stage and engineer it into your process; tell us the stream and the handling requirements and we design the machine around them.

Built around your waste stream


Core and Particle Cut lines for packaging, product and bulk material — or a fully custom system engineered to your stream.

We build the shredding and size-reduction stage, not a steriliser — tell us your regulatory and handling requirements and we'll engineer to them and integrate with your existing treatment process.

Destruction standards


We build to recognized standards including NIST SP 800-88 and DIN 66399. Tell us the standard and level you work to and we'll confirm the configuration.

NIST SP 800-88

The US guidelines for media sanitization. They set out three methods: Clear, Purge and Destroy. Shredding is a Destroy method, the highest of the three.

DIN 66399

The international standard that grades shred size into security levels, separately for each type of material.

  • P · paper, film and printing forms
  • O · optical media — CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray
  • T · magnetic media — data tape, floppy disks, ID cards
  • H · hard drives
  • E · electronic media — SSDs, USB sticks, memory cards

Common questions


Can you build a shredder for our specific waste stream?

Yes — custom engineering is core to what we do. Tell us the material, volume and handling requirements and we'll design the machine and integrate it into your process.

Does the shredder treat or sterilise the waste?

No — we build the size-reduction and destruction stage. We engineer it to fit alongside your existing treatment or disposal process; tell us the requirement and we'll design to it.

Engineer a shredder for your waste stream

Tell us the material and handling requirements and we'll design the system — see how we build custom.

Tell us what you need to process

Material, volume, and the result you need at the end. Help us understand your space — direct from the people who build the machine.