HSM Powerline FA 400.2 - 7/16 Industrial Shredder

This is the fastest, hungriest version of the Powerline FA 400.2 and the least secure: an 11.8 mm strip cut rated DIN 66399 P-1, taking up to 144 sheets in a single pass. Buy it when the job is destroying paper volume, not protecting secrets.

P-1 is a bulk-reduction level. It renders documents unreadable as whole pages and makes them worthless to a casual passer-by or a skip-diver, but an 11.8 mm strip leaves whole words and often whole lines intact. It is the right level for expired catalogues, superseded print runs, misprints, internal notices, marketing overstock and general non-confidential paper waste — the material that occupies a lot of bin space and no risk register. It is the wrong level for anything with a name, an account number or a signature on it.

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.

The 144-sheet figure is the practical headline here. Because the cut is coarse, the motor is doing far less work per page than it does in the particle-cut versions, so a whole ream section goes through in one bite. In a records room clearing pallets of superseded paper, that difference compounds across a day.

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

Buy the 11.8 mm FA 400.2 if your problem is tonnage. Print rooms, publishers, mailing houses, university departments clearing old course packs, and facilities teams disposing of superseded manuals all generate paper that has to disappear but does not have to be protected. At 144 sheets a pass this machine clears that faster than anything else in the Powerline range, and the coarse cut means less wear and less heat for the same throughput.

Do not buy it for personal data. If your material is covered by GDPR, HIPAA, FACTA or an internal confidentiality policy, P-1 will not satisfy an auditor and should not be presented as if it might. Step up within the same chassis: the 5.8 mm P-2 version keeps a strip cut but halves the strip width, the 5.8 x 50 mm P-3 is the usual minimum for routine commercial confidentiality, and the 3.9 x 40 mm P-4 is where most data-protection policies actually land. All four share this cabinet, so the footprint, intake and bin are identical and only the cutting head and throughput change.

Also think twice if you are short of floor space or power. This is a 445 kg, 1.6 m deep, three-phase machine. For a shared office corridor, a smaller single-phase SECURIO is the honest recommendation.