Central Texas Secure Shredding • Pflugerville

Central Texas Secure Shredding • Pflugerville

By Kelsey Wilkinson Friday, 05 June 2009

There is nothing noticeably different about the Central Texas Secure Shredding facility on Radholme Court in Pflugerville. But inside the doors of this local business lie impressive mountains of shredded paper, fork lifts with steel tubs that overflow with paper debris and a 20-foot tall industrial paper shredder.

Central Texas Secure Shredding is a paper processing business that offers secure document shredding to area businesses, schools and individual residents.

“We are basically in the business of glorified trash,” said Wade Patton, jokingly.

He operates the business with his wife, Jennifer. Wade is a Marine Corps veteran and said he always knew he wanted to be a businessman. The paper shredding business, they say, was a good fit for the couple.

“We thought with this [business], we could offer a good service at a fair price,” Jennifer said.

Central Texas Secure Shredding offers shredding services for as small as one box of old paper, or weekly pick-up and shredding services for a large facility, such as a hospital with hundreds of pounds of paper and digital files such as CDs with private information.

The Pattons said they have customers located as far south as San Antonio and as far north as Dallas. The company moved from Leander to Pflugerville in October because the Wades said they wanted better access to IH 35 and more space in a light industrial area.

Round Rock ISD is one of Central Texas Secure Shredding’s largest and oldest clients. The district purges thousands of documents at the end of each school year.

The process

Paper intended for shredding is first mixed with documents from other sources to increase security. Then it is shredded and packed into 2,200-pound bales to be loaded onto trucks and transported to a recycling plant. Central Texas Secure Shredding recycles 100 percent of paper that comes into the facility. The recycled material is eventually used for diapers and tissue paper products. The company typically ships out two truckloads of paper to be recycled everyday.

Central Texas Secure Shredding not only shreds and processes documents, it also manages the contents of every Abitibi Paper Retriever Recycling container, which are the large recycling dumpsters usually near schools and churches, within a 50-mile radius. The company processes, bails and ships the paper to AbitibiBowater warehouse where it is converted into newsprint.

The business has grown since it was founded in 2005, but Wade says he wants to focus on increasing efficiency and maximizing the shredding and recycling process.

“One of the good things about being a plant-based shredding firm is that we can continue to process stuff here and simultaneously go out and continue to work with local businesses,” he said.

Recycled paper

Central Texas Secure Shredding recycles 100 percent of the paper it receives. Every 2,000 lbs of paper saves the following:

• 17 trees
• 7,000 gallons of water
• 50 pounds of air pollution
• 4,000 kilowatts of electricity
• 3 cubic yards of landfill

Central Texas Secure Shredding, 16805 Radholme Court, Round Rock, 670-2900 • www.ctshred.com, Individuals should call for an appointment.