15 years of hands-on experience in recycling.

RSS specialises in industrial size reduction, recycling machines and complete processing solutions.

But RSS did not start with a large factory, an extensive sales team or a full order book. It started with technical knowledge, experience in machines and size reduction, enterprise, and above all the conviction that good recycling machines have to be reliable, practical and economically sound.

In 2011 RSS, Recycling Shredders & Solutions, was founded in Wijk bij Duurstede.

The first years meant hard work above all. Getting out into the market, visiting companies, listening to customers, looking at applications and building trust step by step.

No complicated story. Simply starting, keeping our word and making sure the machine delivered does what it was bought for. That mentality is still the foundation of RSS.

Close to the customer, with short lines!

The technical background behind RSS goes back further than the company itself.

Founder Harry Baumgart trained as an engineer, in automotive and mechanical engineering among others, and worked with industrial cutting machines from 2000. From 2008 the focus shifted more and more to recycling machines and industrial size reduction. That is where engineering, enterprise and recycling finally came together.

Because behind every shredder there is in reality a much broader technical question: what goes in? How much has to be processed? And what has to come out at the end? RSS was founded in 2011 from that idea.

In a 2014 article, Recycling Magazine Benelux aptly described the early period as ploughing and sowing before there was anything to harvest. The first period was about getting to know the market and visiting potential customers. From 2012 the first orders came in, and in 2013 sales clearly began to take off.

That is how RSS was built. Not from a marketing plan, but from practice.

Listen. Think along. Build. Deliver.

You can sell a machine from a catalogue. A good recycling solution asks for more.

From the start RSS has therefore tried to stay close to the client. Not only asking which machine someone wants to buy, but understanding which material they want to process and what result they want to achieve with it. That turned out to be the basis for further growth as well.

Customers came back. For a next machine, an extension of an existing installation or a new application.

In 2017 Recycling Magazine Benelux wrote about RSS again. By then a customer base had been built with returning clients, and projects were being realised with a network of specialised companies and craftspeople.

RSS did not have to do everything itself. The customer often knows exactly what they want and has sometimes worked with machines like these for years. RSS learns from its customers every day.

In short: above all we want to know what we do well ourselves, and where working with a specialist, often the customer, produces a better solution. The more good and clear information from the customer, the more return and the more solutions.

Working together makes it stronger.

The name Recycling Shredders & Solutions was not chosen by chance.

Shredders are an important part of RSS, but processing material does not stop once a material has been made smaller.

Over the years the range has grown to include Single Shaft Shredders, Two Shaft Shredders, Four Shaft Shredders, Granulators and Hammer Mills. Around them, techniques can be applied for conveying, dosing, separating, washing, drying, classifying and storage, among others.

Sometimes one machine is enough. Sometimes three or four machines or elements together form the solution. And sometimes it first has to be investigated how a material flow can best be processed at all.

That is why RSS looks more and more at the process as a whole.

First the process. Then the machines.

RSS develops and supplies machines for industrial size reduction. But a complete recycling installation rarely consists of shredders and granulators alone.

That is why RSS machines can be combined with equipment and technology from other specialised suppliers. When an RSS machine is the right solution, we use it. When a specialised machine or technology from another manufacturer suits a particular process step better, there has to be room for that.

The aim is not to put as many different RSS machines into one project as possible. The aim is to put together an installation that is technically right and does what the customer expects of it.

Your material. Your process. Our solution.

Not every material flow can be judged from a photo, a specification or a phone call. Sometimes material simply has to go through a machine. Practical tests have therefore always played an important role at RSS.

Over the years, however, we have also learned that a good material test is much more than a demonstration without obligation. A test takes preparation, an available machine, technical people and time. At the same time the customer can gain valuable information about, for example, how the material behaves, capacity, knife configuration, screen size and the end fraction that can be reached.

That is why we now treat material tests as a professional technical service. Companies that are still exploring and mainly want technical information can have their material tested at RSS as well.

A fair fee can be charged for preparing and carrying out such a test. If the test then leads to the purchase of a machine or installation from RSS, the test costs can be offset against the final order, as agreed.

That way the customer gets a serious test with useful information, and we can deploy our people, machines and available time efficiently.

Not testing for the sake of testing. Testing to know.

First the process. Then the machines.

Not every recycling project has to start with buying a machine. Sometimes a company is right at the beginning. There is a material flow. There may be an idea for an end product. But which techniques, capacities and machines it takes is not yet clear.

RSS can support that too. With RSS Consultancy we put our practical knowledge to work for material assessment, process development, technical feasibility, capacity planning, machine and technology choice, line configuration and the optimisation of existing processes, among other things.

It is not decided beforehand that the outcome has to be an RSS machine.

With or without RSS equipment

When RSS equipment fits the process technically, we can of course use it. When another technology or specialised manufacturer suits a particular process step better, we include that in our advice.

RSS Consultancy can therefore also be engaged without buying RSS equipment. With it we want to go a step further than being a machine supplier alone.

Practical knowledge. Technical advice. Solutions that work.

For RSS, supplying an industrial machine means more than making sure a machine ends up at the customer’s site. Behind a delivery are technical assessment, configuration, documentation, conformity, inspection and a correct handover.

And after delivery a customer has to know where to go as well. For questions. For parts. For service. And when a problem arises, for someone who picks up the phone and tries to solve it.

That is the value we want to keep adding to RSS.

RSS Assurance

• Technically assessed
• Conformity & documentation
• Warranty
• Parts
• Service

One supplier. One point of contact. One responsible party.

RSS does not just supply the machine. We stand behind it.

Speed and availability are becoming more and more important too. A customer who decides today to expand their production capacity would rather not have to wait a long time before the machine can be used.

That is why, in the coming years, we want to offer more and more standard RSS machines and components from stock.

Not every build can be kept in stock, and bespoke remains bespoke. But by investing deliberately in standard machines we want to be able to respond faster for common applications. Even when a particular standard model is not in stock, RSS can sometimes deliver surprisingly fast.

Stock is thereby becoming an ever more important part of our service.

New. In stock. Ready to run.

Not every customer needs extra capacity permanently.

Sometimes a large temporary project comes along. Sometimes a backlog has to be cleared. Sometimes there is temporarily more material than your own installation can process. And sometimes a company wants certainty about a new material flow first, before making a long term investment.

That is why, alongside sales, we want to offer the option of renting selected machines and standard configurations for longer periods. RSS Rental adds that option next to the traditional purchase of a machine.

For structural capacity buying often remains the logical choice. For temporary capacity renting can be more interesting.

Buy your capacity. Or, when the need is temporary:

Rent your capacity.

A lot has changed since 2011. RSS has grown from a young company that still had to earn its place in the recycling market into a supplier of industrial shredders, granulators, components and recycling solutions.

But we do not want to grow just to get bigger. In the coming years we mainly want to become better, broader and smarter at what we already do:

• More standard machines available.
• Putting more knowledge to work through consultancy.
• Professional material testing.
• Developing complete solutions around material flows.
• Working with specialised suppliers where that is technically better.
• And offering customers temporary capacity as well as purchase.

Not everything has to happen tomorrow. But the direction is clear.

RSS wants to keep the advantages of a compact company while doing so. No needlessly long lines of communication. No customer who first has to pass several departments before somebody understands what it is about.

The recycling world is technical, practical and sometimes unpredictable. That is exactly why we think it matters that customers can deal directly with people who understand the machines and the applications.

It also means we are critical about our own time. A busy workshop, material tests, engineering, service, production and customer visits all have to be able to exist side by side.

Professionalism therefore does not just mean working harder. It also means putting time and technical knowledge where they really add value. That matters to RSS. And in the end to our customers as well.

A good machine does not have to be needlessly complicated. More technology does not automatically mean a better solution.

RSS therefore looks critically at what an application really needs. What capacity? What end fraction? What degree of automation? What investment is justified? And above all: what does this installation have to do for the customer every day?

That is what we find the right technology for. Not more because it is possible. Better where it is needed.

Reliable technology. Practical solutions. A realistic investment.

The recycling industry keeps changing. Material flows change. Requirements rise. Raw materials become more valuable. Labour becomes scarcer, and companies want more control over their own material flows.

That opens up new opportunities for RSS. Not by wanting to be everything. But by building further on what we are good at: size reduction, practical engineering and understanding the process around the machine.

That is why RSS will develop further in four important areas:

• Machines for reliable industrial size reduction.
• Solutions for complete recycling and processing operations.
• Consultancy & Testing for customers who first need knowledge and certainty.
• Stock & Rental for customers who need capacity faster, or for a while.

Different services, with the same technical base.

What once started with phone calls, visiting companies, driving the miles and trying to win over the first customers stands somewhere else today. We are proud of that.

But for us the past is valuable mainly because we learned from it. We have seen what works. We have seen what does not. We have learned from machines, materials, projects, suppliers and above all from customers.

We take that experience into the next phase of RSS. Not by making it more complicated than necessary. But by trying to do it a little better every day.

Because in the end, a reputation in our industry is not built with fine words. It is built with machines that run, solutions that work and customers who come back.