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By David Campbell

TITAN MOBILE SHREDDING's facility is located at 6110 Kit Road, Pipersville, PA 18974

Don Adriaansen and Bob Leventhal’s business celebrated three years recently during an open house at TITAN Mobile Shredding’s first concrete location in Pipersville.

More than 70 acquaintances and customers attended the joyous affair at the 4,000-squarefoot facility on Nov. 19. “It’s brought everything together into one place,” said Adriaansen. “It gives us a lot of flexibility.” TITAN, a joint business venture between the two neighbors in Buckingham, is the only certified shredding company in Bucks County. In its three years in existence, TITAN has catered to the shredding needs of more than 950 companies and customers, including hospitals, doctor offices, attorneys, accountants, financial businesses and insurance agents.

“Anything you can think of that has business records, we’ve done,” said Adriaansen, who has brought his sales and marketing skills to the concept. Adriaansen and Leventhal started TITAN in 2005, after Leventhal, Adriaansen said, saw a segment on CNN that June about a couple that left their jobs to launch a mobile shredding company.

“It sparked our interest,” said Adriaansen. “We did some research and found it to be a viable business opportunity, particularly in this area because there were not very many service providers at the time, compared to other metropolitan areas.

TITAN provides routine shredding and records purging, or cleanouts. “It’s general knowledge,” said Adriaansen, “that you can’t throw a warehouse full of paper into the trash anymore.” Before opening the facility in Pipersville, Adriaansen and Leventhal pretty much worked from home. Now, customers can, if they like, bring their inventory to TITAN to dispose of it. TITAN possesses a plant-based shredder. Once the paper is shredded, TITAN takes the finished product and prepares it into bales, weighing approximately 1,200 pounds each for shipment to paper mills.

“Nobody was really running a professionally operated, customer-service-focused shredding company,” said Adriaansen. “It convinced us there was an opportunity [to do something like this] in an expanding market.” A green-conscious individual, Adriaansen is pleased that TITAN is a friend to the environment. (Adriaansen and Leventhal are expected to begin recycling computers, on a smaller scale, for their clients shortly, as well.) “When we talk to people,” said Adriaansen, “they’re very excited that all the paper is getting recycled.”