intimus 655144 16.50 - P2 16.50S 10mm x 70mm CROSS CUT 220/60 3PH-USA

This is the volume configuration of the intimus 16.50: a 10 x 70 mm cutting head that trades security level for throughput, rated by intimus at up to 550 sheets per pass against the 330 of the 6 x 50 mm build. At 700 mm² the particle sits inside the 800 mm² DIN 66399 permits at P-2. Everything else — the 19.7 in feed, the 10 HP three-phase motor, the automatic infeed conveyor, the SmartShred control, the 120-gallon collection chamber — is the same machine.

Be clear-eyed about what P-2 means. DIN 66399 places it at internal data whose disclosure would have a limited negative effect: general correspondence, drafts, obsolete internal paperwork. It is not a level to specify for customer records, personnel files or anything covered by a destruction contract.

Key Features

• 10 x 70 mm cross-cut particles — DIN 66399 P-2, 700 mm² against an 800 mm² class ceiling.
• Up to 550 sheets per pass — intimus's figure for this cut, and the highest capacity offered in the 16.50 range. The coarser the cut, the more paper the same 10 HP motor can pull through at once.
• 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

The P-2 16.50 earns its place where the job is bulk reduction of non-sensitive paper: print overruns, obsolete stationery and manuals, misprints, general office waste being destroyed for confidentiality hygiene rather than compliance, or a recycling operation reducing volume before baling. At up to 550 sheets a pass with a conveyor feed, it clears material faster than anything else in the 16.50 range.

Do not specify it for regulated material. If you destroy customer data, employee records or anything covered by a client contract, P-2 will not stand up and you want the 6 x 50 mm P-3 16.50 (SKU 655124) instead — identical machine, 330 sheets a pass, and the level most destruction contracts name. For P-4 and above no 16.50 build qualifies; that is office cabinet or high-security territory, such as the intimus 130 CP4 or the intimus 120 CP7. If you want the waste baled rather than bagged, the intimus 14.87 shredder-baler is the alternative.

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.

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.