Piranha Mobile Shredding And Recycling, Inc.

What Piranha Mobile Shredding And Recycling, Inc. does

Piranha Mobile Shredding and Recycling, Inc. is a family-owned document and media destruction services company founded in 1991 by Mike Murphy and headquartered at 813 E Franklin St, Evansville, Indiana. The company provides secure destruction of paper documents, magnetic media (DVDs, CDs, floppy discs, microfilm, microfiche), hard drives (via hammer mill), and ancillary office clean-out services to business, healthcare, financial, and individual customers across Southern Indiana, Southern Illinois, and Western Kentucky within approximately a 100-mile radius of Evansville. Piranha is NAID-certified and offers notarized certificates of destruction with every invoice, 24-hour destruction turnaround, 90-day video surveillance retention, and full paper recycling to downstream mills.

The core technology is a Vecoplan Single-Shaft Rotary Shredder with ReTech cross-shredding, rated at up to 4,000 pounds per hour with quarter-sized output, supplemented by a separate shredder for magnetic media and a hammer mill for hard drives. The company operates a six-truck mobile fleet, three tiers of lockable secure containers (Executive ~100 lb, Schaefer 39-gallon ~125 lb, Schaefer 96-gallon ~300 lb) on monthly subscriptions, a warehouse drop-off service, in-plant viewing-area destruction, and a recurring calendar of free community shred days across the tri-state area as a consumer acquisition channel. Piranha suffered a total-loss fire at its facility on October 28, 2016, and rebuilt with the current Vecoplan equipment before resuming operations from a temporary and then permanent site. Revenue is generated through professional-services pricing: quote-based enterprise contracts, monthly container subscriptions, transactional drop-off fees, and freemium community events capped at 100 lbs per visitor.

Name

Piranha Mobile Shredding And Recycling, Inc.

Legal name

Piranha Mobile Shredding & Recycling, Inc.

Website

https://piranhashred.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Piranha Mobile Shredding and Recycling is a family-owned, NAID-certified secure document and media destruction services provider founded in 1991, operating a six-truck fleet and Vecoplan shredder from Evansville, Indiana to serve healthcare, financial, and general business customers across the Indiana-Illinois-Kentucky tri-state area.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Secure Document Destruction Services

NAICS

Solid Waste Collection (562111), Materials Recovery Facilities (562920)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Confidential Document Destruction & Secure Recycling (Shredding) (IMAIAFAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Data Destruction Services (On-site/Off-site, Media Sanitization) (BPALAIAC)

Keywords

• Document destruction services
• Mobile shredding services
• Media destruction services
• Hard drive destruction
• Secure paper recycling

Headquarters

HQ city

Evansville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Off-site Document Destruction: Documents are picked up at customer locations and brought back to facilities for destruction. Customers receive an affidavit of destruction with the invoice. All documents destroyed within 24 hours.
2. In-Plant Destruction: Customers (business or personal) can bring documents to the facility and watch them being destroyed. A designated viewing area is provided.
3. Magnetic Media Destruction: Destruction of DVDs, CDs, floppy discs, microfilm, microfiche, and plastic bottles using a special shredder.
4. Hard Drive Destruction: Hard drives destroyed using a hammer mill.
5. Office Clean-outs: Complete office clean-outs including furniture and other items for disposal, based on customer needs and requests.
6. Customer Drop-off Service: Customers can drop off documents at the warehouse (813 E Franklin St, Evansville, IN) for a charge. Available Monday-Friday, 8am-2pm.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Piranha Mobile Shredding provides secure document and media destruction services to businesses and individuals within a 100-mile radius of Evansville, Indiana. Core offerings include off-site document pickup-and-shred service with destruction completed within 24 hours, in-plant witnessed destruction, magnetic media and hard drive destruction using specialized equipment, office clean-outs, and recurring secure container rentals. All shredded paper is recycled, and a notarized affidavit of destruction is issued with each invoice.

Product overview

Piranha Mobile Shredding is a document destruction service company offering a suite of secure shredding solutions. The core offering consists of off-site document destruction with mobile pickup and in-plant destruction at their facility. Additional services include magnetic media destruction, hard drive destruction, office clean-outs, and secure container rentals. The company operates a state-of-the-art Vecoplan Single-Shaft Rotary Shredder capable of processing up to 4,000 pounds per hour. They serve the tri-state area within a 100-mile radius of Evansville, Indiana with a 6-truck fleet and 15 employees.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Off-Site Document Destruction Mobile pickup-and-shred service where documents are collected at customer locations and transported to Piranha's facility for destruction within 24 hours; a notarized affidavit of destruction is issued with each invoice. Targeted at businesses needing compliance-driven secure disposal.
• In-Plant Destruction Witnessed destruction service at the Evansville facility where customers bring documents and view the destruction process in a designated viewing area.
• Magnetic Media Destruction Specialized destruction of DVDs, CDs, floppy discs, microfilm, microfiche, and plastic bottles using a dedicated shredder that reduces media to very small particles.
• Hard Drive Destruction Physical destruction of hard drives using a hammer mill to render data storage media unrecoverable for businesses needing secure end-of-life data disposal.
• Office Clean Outs Complete office clean-out service including removal and proper disposal of old office equipment and fixtures such as copy machines, file cabinets, and chairs.
• Secure Container Subscription Service Recurring monthly subscription service providing lockable secure containers (Executive ~100 lb; Schaefer 39 gallon ~125 lb; Schaefer 96 gallon ~300 lb) placed at customer sites for ongoing document accumulation and scheduled pickup.
• Customer Drop-Off Service Warehouse drop-off service at 813 E. Franklin St., Evansville, IN, available Monday-Friday 8am-2pm for a per-drop charge; pricing available by calling the office.

Quantifiable outcome

• Documents destroyed within 24 hours of pickup
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Paragon SecurityminorOthersProvides 24-hour video surveillance for the facility with 11 cameras and 3 months of backup video of warehouse and property.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Crown Records Management: NAID-certified secure shredding and records management operator offering scheduled pickup, one-time purges, and hard drive destruction to business customers — directly competes with Piranha for recurring shredding contracts.
• ProShred Security: NAID-certified mobile document destruction franchise with a regional branch model serving SMB and enterprise customers with on-site and off-site shredding — directly comparable in service mix, mobile fleet approach, and compliance positioning.
• Corodata: Records management and secure shredding provider serving business customers with scheduled destruction services, hard drive destruction, and certificate-of-destruction workflows — closely comparable business model and customer base.
• DataShield: NAID-certified document and data destruction provider offering mobile shredding, hard drive destruction, and e-waste recycling to business customers — directly comparable service portfolio with similar compliance emphasis.
• Blue-Pencil Information Security: NAID-certified information destruction provider offering mobile shredding, media destruction, and hard drive destruction to business customers — directly comparable service mix with similar compliance-led positioning.
• Legal Shred: Specialty shredding provider focused on legal, healthcare, and financial-sector compliance-driven customers with scheduled mobile pickup and certificate-of-destruction workflows — directly comparable offering and target customer profile.

Broad incumbents

• Iron Mountain: Global records management and secure information destruction leader offering integrated shredding, ITAD, and storage services to enterprise healthcare, financial, and government customers — directly competes with Piranha for large compliance-driven accounts in its territory.
• Shred-it (Stericycle): International document destruction brand now part of Stericycle, offering scheduled shredding, hard drive destruction, and compliance services to enterprise customers — competes with Piranha for healthcare, financial, and SMB accounts in the tri-state region.

Emerging players

• Reclamere: Specialty IT asset disposition and data destruction provider with HIPAA/HITECH focus, offering hard drive destruction, e-waste recycling, and secure shredding — comparable in ITAD and media destruction overlap with Piranha's growing e-waste offering.

Regional players

• Gilmore Services: Regional document destruction and records management provider serving the Ohio Valley with mobile shredding and secure recycling — overlaps with Piranha's tri-state service area and competes on similar SMB and enterprise accounts.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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