HSM CP 4988 Cursher and Baler Combinatio for PET Beverage and Aluminium Cans

The HSM CP 4988 does two jobs in one pass: it crushes PET bottles and beverage cans, then compresses and straps the crushed material into a bale. Throughput is 4,000 one-litre bottles an hour and HSM quotes up to 90% volume reduction in a single cycle, with finished bales of up to 100 kg.

That combination is the point of the machine. A crusher alone reduces volume but leaves you with loose material in containers; a baler alone handles material that is already flat. The CP 4988 takes bottles as they arrive and produces a strapped, stackable, transportable bale that a recycler will accept as a commodity rather than as waste. For a high-volume site, that is the difference between paying for disposal and being paid for material.

Key Features

• 4,000 one-litre PET bottles per hour. Roughly 70% higher than HSM's standalone Crusher 1049 SA, and enough for a stadium, a bottling plant or a regional deposit-return centre.
• Up to 90% volume reduction in one cycle. HSM's own figure, and a much deeper reduction than crushing alone achieves, because the material is compressed as well as flattened.
• Bales of up to 100 kg. A weight that a pallet truck handles and that stacks predictably, which is what makes storage between collections practical.
• Manual three-fold strapping with continuous polyester strap. Three straps per bale, applied by the operator. Polyester strap is used rather than wire because it is safer to handle, will not contaminate the PET stream, and does not need cutting tools at the far end.
• 490 mm working width, which takes large-format bottles as well as single-serve.
• One machine, one operator, one footprint. Buying a separate crusher and baler means two machines, two power supplies, two maintenance schedules and a handling step between them.

Specifications

Metric figures are HSM's published values for the equivalent EU article (6577144); imperial figures are converted from them. HSM does not publish a machine depth, motor rating, voltage, machine weight, noise level or bale dimension for this model in its public product data, so those rows are omitted rather than filled with a third-party estimate. If you need the full installation drawing before committing floor space, ask us and we will request it from HSM.

What's in the Box

• CP 4988 crusher-baler combination, assembled
• Operating instructions

Polyester strapping is a consumable and is not included. HSM specifies strapping tape type WG 65 for this machine; budget for it as an ongoing cost at three straps per bale.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

The CP 4988 makes sense when you handle beverage containers in genuine volume and the output has commercial value. Bottling and beverage plants, large stadiums and arenas, deposit-return scheme operators, waste management contractors handling PET streams, and large hotel or catering groups are the typical fit. If your recycler pays a better rate for baled material than for loose, the machine has a calculable payback rather than being a cost centre.

Do not buy it if you only need to stop paying to haul air. Crushing alone gets you a three-to-fourfold volume reduction, and the HSM Crusher 1049 SA does that at 2,400 bottles an hour into a 290 litre container for considerably less money and much less floor space. Baling is only worth paying for if someone downstream wants bales.

Do not buy it for cardboard, paper or film. It is a beverage-container machine. Mixed paper and cardboard belong in a horizontal baler such as the HSM HL 7009, and steel or metal barrels belong in the FP 3000 barrel press. Feeding the wrong stream into a crusher-baler damages it and voids any sensible warranty conversation.

Finally, do not buy it if nobody will be there to strap. The strapping on this model is manual and three-fold, so it needs an operator at the end of each bale. If you want unattended baling you are looking at a different class of machine entirely.