Bulky waste requires heavy-duty equipment, large-capacity containers, and efficient loading systems. Komar offers solutions designed to handle product destruction, household and office furniture, appliances, and other oversized materials.
The dual-action shearing and compacting handles many types of large items with ease, speeding up processing time and maximizing payload capacity.
Bulky and irregular items are broken down with a pre-crush cycle before the compaction stroke, improving container density and reducing transport frequency.
High-cushion items, such as sofas, recliners, and mattresses, include foam or springs to enhance comfort. While these features improve usability, they create challenges for traditional compaction equipment. Known as rebound or bounce-back, these materials compress under pressure but attempt to return to their original shape once the force is removed.
Auger Solutions:
Rigid items, including office furniture, appliances, bedroom furniture, and drums, are dense and strong but often contain significant empty space. These items do not pack efficiently, reducing container capacity and leading to increased hauling frequency and transport costs. Breaking them apart and compacting them is essential, as traditional compaction methods often fail to achieve sufficient density.
Auger and Pre-Crusher Solutions:
Bulky items—sofas, recliners, mattresses, office furniture, appliances, and drums—are large, irregular, and difficult to compact efficiently. High-cushion items compress under pressure but rebound once the force is removed, while rigid items are dense and often contain significant empty space. Standard waste processing equipment struggles to handle these challenges, leading to wasted space, extra transport trips, and higher disposal costs.
Komar augers and pre-crushers are built specifically for bulky item product destruction. Our systems shear, crush, and compact even the toughest items, eliminating voids and maximizing container fill. The result is faster processing, fewer hauling trips, and more efficient, cost-effective disposal—all without manual disassembly.
Every operation is unique. Materials, volume, size, and flow all change by location or facility type. Our Engineered Systems team specializes in partnering with you to find the right solution with the right equipment for your waste handling needs.
Shearing, crushing, and compacting are hallmarks of auger technology. Komar offers the largest and most powerful augers on the market, enabling processing of the bulkiest of waste.
Engineered system designs incorporate Komar equipment directly into your processes, saving time, resources, and space.
Built to handle the toughest materials with constant use – no compromises in design, materials, or craftsmanship.
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“Our facility is a 110,000-square-foot operations center for Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania. We get between 1.2 to 1.5 million pounds of material a day, and tonnage increases significantly during the summer. The Komar auger has increased daily soft trash, wood pallets, and general trash efficiency by 30% and 40% with furniture. I love to give shock-and-awe tours to show off the Komar Auger, which compacts 8.5 to 9 tons into each payload.”
Bob Kagle, Director of Retail Logistics, Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania
“Since installing our Komar Auger, we have improved our operations tremendously. The auger units have reduced labor from six people down to one person, who oversees the conveyor lines and compactors. We have gone from a 2-ton payload to a 10-ton-plus payload, per 40-yard container, reducing our annual pull charges by over 75%. We have less downtime and have eliminated jams due to the slow operation of the old compactors. Best of all, we had less than a one-year return on investment.”
John Hefty, Operations Manager, GameStop
“We estimate that the Komar Auger has saved us 1,300 hours of labor per year, has reduced our hauling cost by two-thirds, and has given La-Z-Boy a safer process and more floor space.”
Troy Kvingedal, Facilities Supervisor, La-Z-Boy
“Our disposal costs have dropped, which at least covers the cost of the compactors. Aside from the monetary aspect, the compactors allow the stores to be considerably cleaner. Cleanup at night is much easier because we have no trash cluttering up the back room of the store. All in all, we are very pleased with the compactors.”
Doug Gehrig, CEO, McDonald’s of Southwest Louisiana
Bulky waste consumes excessive space and drives up hauling and disposal costs. Using auger or pre-crusher compactors increases container density and reduces manual handling, which improves facility safety and overall waste management efficiency.
Yes. Our systems break down and compact both home and office furniture waste without manual labor, improving safety and maximizing container utilization.
Yes. Mattresses compress under pressure and rebound after release, but Komar augers shear and consolidate them so the material stays compact and transport-efficient.
Yes. Our equipment is designed to crush and compact appliances and light industrial waste without physical disassembly. However, regulated components—such as refrigerants, capacitors containing PCBs, mercury switches, and certain batteries—must be removed or handled according to environmental requirements.
No. Komar equipment is engineered for oversized, irregular materials and use high torque and structural strength to process them without jamming.
Augers use a rotating screw to continuously tear and compact material in one step. Pre-crushers use a heavy-duty crushing wall to break material before the compaction stroke. Both are built to efficiently reduce bulky waste volume.
Yes. The equipment handles mixed waste streams, allowing bulky and general waste to be processed together for faster, more efficient loading.
Yes. Our systems and engineering teams specialize in designing custom hoppers, infeed systems, and automation solutions that integrate seamlessly with your existing workflow and facility layout.
We are a waste solutions company. With a wide array of application-specific models and advanced engineering capabilities, we look forward to guiding you to the best solution for the job.
Schedule a free waste stream evaluation to identify the right equipment and processes for your space, waste types, and volume.