Rotating cutting and chopping machine to cut chop and shred ropes. The chopper is capable of cutting, shredding, breaking and tearing all kinds of ropes, such as raffia, sisal, hemp, polypropylene ropes, polyester ropes nylon ropes, elastic ropes, docking systems, packaging threads, etc.
Video of ropes being cut and shredded by the chopper.
LIDEM offers a cutting, chopping and shredding system: The ROTATOR. A machine with a working with of 550mm or 870mm, a variable cutting length (controlled with an adjustable conveyor belt speed), and an output capacity for plastic material of up to 3.500kg per hour (depending on materials and size of the processed material.
The cutting process begins with the movement of the conveyor belt, which can be adjusted easily from the control panel. Then the material is fed into the rotating cutting system, composed with various blades. Finally, the extraction belt evacuates all the shredded material.
Depending on the cutting or shredding capacity, and the material feeding process required, LIDEM offers various versions of the ROTATOR chopper.
Images of the plastic rope chopper.

Images of the output of the polypropylene and polyethylene rope after being cut.

Images of the chopper with ropes before the cutting process

Images of plastic and PET ropes after being chopped, now ready to be recycled.
