Equipment to Remove Book Binding for Recycling

[Marshalle Graham]

Good afternoon. I wondered if anyone had any information to share
about methods, including specific equipment, for removing hardcovers
from books for recycling. I appreciate your help. Thank you.

[Rick]

I know some companies cut the hard covers off of books with a
guillotine type of machine. I don't have specific information for
you, but you could try contacting this recycling company in Iowa that
has such a piece of equipment:

North Cedar Recycling
http://northcedarrecycling.com/index.html

[Pete Pasterz]

This is indeed a paper guillotine, used for cutting large amounts of
large sized paper to smaller sizes in the printing industry. When I
was at Michigan State University, we inherited one from our printing
shop, and used it for cutting off the binding glue/cover. They work
great, but a couple of cautions...1] the blades are quite brittle and
are expensive to replace, so make sure you're not cutting stapled
bindings and 2] they cut fingers as well as paper. We found the
cost-benefit for us at the time worth the expense, and of course trained
staff on safe use.

Pete Pasterz

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[Peter Spendelow]

One other option that a local (Portland, Oregon) company constructed
is a set of saws that cut off the hard cover and binding. Workers
open up each book and feed it into a slot with the paper hanging down
and the covers open parallel to the ground, and the book gets pushed
forward to where a saw cuts out the paper.

Peter Spendelow

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> > Good afternoon. I wondered if anyone had any information to share
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> > from books for recycling. I appreciate your help. Thank you.
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