HSM Powerline FA 400.2 1/4 Strip Cut Document Shredder - HSM1513

The 5.8 mm strip-cut Powerline FA 400.2 is the volume compromise in the range: 104 sheets a pass at DIN 66399 P-2, which is meaningfully more secure than the 11.8 mm version without giving up much speed. It suits a high-throughput destruction room handling internal paperwork that is not personal data.

P-2 allows particles up to 800 mm². A 5.8 mm strip narrows the readable fragment considerably compared with P-1 — you lose most of a line of text rather than keeping it — but it is still a strip, and a determined reconstruction of a single known page remains conceivable. Treat it as the level for commercially sensitive but non-personal material: draft specifications, internal costings, meeting notes, superseded procedures, engineering markups.

Key Features

• 428 mm (16.85") intake across the full width. Letter, legal and A3 all go in unfolded, landscape or portrait, and so do lever-arch files broken down flat. Nobody has to pre-trim anything.
• 460 litre removable container. The bin rolls out of the cabinet rather than being lifted, which matters at this size — a full container of shredded paper is heavy enough that a lift-out design would be a manual-handling problem.
• Continuous-duty motor. The FA 400.2 is built to run all day rather than in bursts. That is the difference between a departmental machine and a central shredding station, and it is the reason HSM positions this chassis for archives and records-destruction rooms.
• Induction-hardened solid steel cutting rollers. Staples, paper clips and the odd credit card go through without a separate sorting step, which is what makes a central station practical — you cannot ask twelve departments to de-staple reliably.
• Integrated manual oiler. Cutting-head lubrication is a scheduled task on a machine that runs at this duty, and the on-board oiler means it is done from the front panel rather than with an aerosol and a torch.
• Storage table on top. Data carriers and stacks waiting to go in have somewhere to sit, which sounds trivial until you watch someone balance a box on a bin lid.
• Mobile on lockable castors, with emergency stop. It can be repositioned by two people and locked in place, and the emergency-off switch is a requirement in most facilities that run a shared destruction room.

Compared to its siblings this variant is also the lightest at 425 kg, because the strip-cut head is simpler than the particle-cut assemblies. It makes no practical difference in use, but it does matter if you are checking a floor loading or a lift capacity before delivery.

Specifications

Metric figures are HSM's published values for the equivalent EU article number; imperial figures are converted from those. Sheet capacity is quoted at 80 g/m² paper, which is HSM's per-model datasheet standard — HSM's overview brochure quotes the same machines at 70 g/m², which reads about 15% higher. Compare like with like when you benchmark against another brand.

What's in the Box

• Powerline FA 400.2 shredder, assembled on lockable castors
• Removable 460 litre waste container
• Integrated manual oiler
• Operating instructions

Shredder bags and cutting oil are not included and are ordered separately as consumables. HSM lists reusable collection bags, special cutting oil, dust extraction, table extensions and collection trolleys as accessories for this chassis; we have not published a bag part number for the FA 400.2 because we could not verify one against HSM's own documentation. Ask us before you order bags rather than guessing from a smaller model's part number.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

This is the right machine for an organisation that destroys a lot of internal paper and wants better than bulk-reduction security without paying the throughput penalty of a particle cut. Manufacturing sites clearing drawing revisions, engineering offices, construction firms disposing of superseded plans, and back-office operations shredding non-personal working papers all fit the profile. At 104 sheets a pass it is close to the strip-cut speed of the P-1 machine and twice the effective security level.

Do not buy it if the paper contains personal data. Most data-protection guidance treats P-4 as the working minimum for personal data and P-3 as the floor for general commercial confidentiality; P-2 sits below both. The 5.8 x 50 mm P-3 version costs you eight sheets of capacity and crosses that line, and the 3.9 x 40 mm P-4 version is the one to specify if a policy or an auditor is involved. Going the other way, if security genuinely is not a concern and you only care about volume, the 11.8 mm P-1 version takes 144 sheets.

Do not buy any FA 400.2 for a general office floor. It is a 425 kg three-phase machine 1.57 m deep with a 61 dB(A) idle noise level. It wants a dedicated room.