Whatever the nature or size of your business, a shredder makes it easy to destroy sensitive and confidential information. All shredders supplied by Pitney Bowes provide cross-cut shredding.
Cross-cut shredding
Cross-cut shredding is when the information is cut in a criss-cross motion. This shreds the information into pieces that are harder to reconstruct into the original than if it had been straight-cut shredded. They also take up less room than straight-cut shredding, so the shredder will need emptying less often.
DIN Security Levels
DIN is an acronym that stands for the German Institute for Standardization, which is responsible for devising the DIN 32757 standard for shredders. This is a standard that is widely used across Europe:
- Level 1 = 12mm strips OR 11mm X 40mm particles
- Level 2 = 6mm strips OR 8mm X 40mm particles
- Level 3 =2mm strips OR 4mm X 30mm particles
- Level 4 = 2mm X 15mm particles
- Level 5 = 0.8mm X 12mm particles
- Level 6 = 0.8mm X 4mm particles
