High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vecoplan is a manufacturer of advanced, industrial shredders and associated systems technology. Vecoplan provides shredding, conveying and separation technologies to meet processing and recycling needs. Vecoplan was founded in 1969 in Bad Marienberg, Germany as a manufacturer of high quality wood chippers used in the forest products industry for production of chips used in the paper and board industries. Ms. Irene Scheidweiler was one of the founding members and today serves as the Managing Director. In the early 1980s, Vecoplan turned its focus to the recycling of various materials and in 1982-83, the single-shaft rotary grinder was invented by Wolfgang Lipowski, now Vecoplan's Technical Director.