intimus 655124 16.50 - P3 16.50S 6mm X 50mm CROSS CUT 220/60 3PH-USA

The intimus 16.50 is a conveyor-fed industrial shredder built to clear paper by the pallet rather than by the armful. This configuration (SKU 655124) is the P-3 build, cutting 6 x 50 mm particles, rated by intimus at up to 330 sheets per pass and roughly 1,050 lb of paper per hour through a 19.7 in feed opening driven by a 10 HP three-phase motor.

What separates the P-3 build from the coarser 10 x 70 mm P-2 version of the same machine is straightforward: smaller particles, less throughput. At 300 mm² the 6 x 50 mm cut is comfortably inside the 320 mm² DIN 66399 allows at P-3, which is the level commonly written into commercial records-destruction contracts. If your work is contracted destruction for third parties, this is usually the configuration those contracts assume.

Key Features

• 6 x 50 mm cross-cut particles — DIN 66399 P-3 (full intimus rating P-3 / O-3 / T-3 / E-2), at 300 mm² against a 320 mm² class limit.
• Up to 330 sheets per pass and up to 1,050 lb per hour — this is the figure to compare against a collection contract when you are building a business case.
• 19.7 in (500 mm) feed opening — takes tabloid, computer printout, bound documents and ring binders without pre-sorting.
• Automatic infeed conveyor with paddle feed system — the operator loads the conveyor and walks away, rather than standing at a throat feeding by hand. On a machine of this throughput that is the difference between one person supervising and one person occupied.
• SmartShred touchscreen control — run status, load and fault reporting on the machine rather than in a manual.
• Integrated automatic oiler — cutting-cylinder lubrication is automated, which matters more here than on any office machine: intimus makes lubrication a written condition of warranty coverage and an industrial duty cycle consumes oil quickly.
• Bin-full alarm with automatic shutoff — the machine stops itself rather than packing the waste chamber solid.
• 10 HP motor on 220 V / 3-phase / 60 Hz — three-phase supply required.
• 120 US gallon (approx. 454 litre) waste collection — sized to the throughput rather than to an office footprint.
• Optional APU100 dust extraction — worth specifying if the machine will run continuously in an occupied space; high-volume paper shredding generates real airborne dust.

Specifications

What's in the Box

Delivered as an industrial installation on freight, not as a boxed product: shredder, integrated infeed conveyor and SmartShred control. It requires a 220 V three-phase supply and a floor and access route that will take it. Waste bags for the collection chamber are a separate consumable — intimus supplies PB7 bags for this machine — and the APU100 dust extraction system is a priced option, not included. Confirm site requirements with us before ordering.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

This is the machine for in-house destruction at scale: a commercial shredding operation, a records centre, a bank or insurer's central file destruction, a print house clearing overruns. The 330-sheet pass and conveyor feed mean a single operator can process archive boxes continuously, and P-3 is the level most commercial destruction contracts specify. The ability to swallow bound documents and ring binders whole removes the prep work that dominates labour cost on smaller machines.

Do not buy a 16.50 for an office, however busy. It is a 77 x 48 x 61 in three-phase industrial machine that needs freight delivery, a loading route and service clearance; a department shredding a few hundred sheets a day is served properly by the intimus 130 CP4 cabinet shredder at a small fraction of the cost. Do not buy it if you need the waste baled — the intimus 14.87 shredder-baler compacts output into 130–175 lb bales, which the 16.50 does not. And do not buy it for high-security work: neither cut configuration approaches P-5, let alone the NSA/CSS 02-01 standard, and classified material belongs on a listed machine such as the intimus 120 CP7.

One genuine internal trade-off: if raw volume matters more to you than security level, the 10 x 70 mm P-2 build of the same 16.50 is rated at up to 550 sheets a pass. That is a substantial throughput gain, but P-2 is a low security level suitable only for internal documents, and it will not satisfy a contract written to P-3.

Figures above come from intimus North America published model data and the intimus North America warranty policy. Rows intimus does not publish for this exact cut configuration have been omitted rather than estimated — ask us and we will get them confirmed by the factory before you order.