HSM Powerline FA 500.3 1/8 x 1 1/2 Industrial Shredder - HSM1994

If you are buying an FA 500.3 to satisfy a written privacy or data-protection programme, this is usually the one it points at. The 3.9 × 40 mm particle cut lands at DIN 66399 P-4 — the level most organisations settle on for personal data — and it does so on the same 7.5 kW drive and the same 905 kg chassis as the P-3 version, so the only thing you give up for the extra security is throughput: 180–200 sheets a pass instead of 300–350.

Key Features

• 3.9 × 40 mm particle cut — 156 mm² per particle, just inside the 160 mm² ceiling DIN 66399 sets for P-4
• 180–200 sheets per pass at 80 g/m² from a 7.5 kW three-phase drive
• Rated E-3, F-1, O-3 and T-4 in addition to P-4, so electronic media, film and microform destruction are covered by the same certificate
• 500 mm (19.7 in) conveyor belt feed — operators load the belt and walk away instead of standing at a throat feeding handfuls
• Induction-hardened solid steel cutting rollers
• Automatic oiler keeps the cutting head lubricated without a manual maintenance task
• 530 litre (140 US gallon) waste container on a removable trolley fitted with a reusable collecting bag — no consumable plastic sacks to buy
• Emergency stop bar across the full width of the loading table
• LED operator control panel
• Mobile on castors with a parking brake, so the machine can be repositioned in a destruction room
• Rated for continuous operation rather than a duty cycle measured in minutes

Specifications

What's in the Box

• HSM Powerline FA 500.3 shredder with integrated conveyor belt feed table
• Removable collection trolley with one reusable collecting bag
• Factory-fitted automatic oiling system

Because the trolley uses a reusable bag, this machine does not consume disposable shredder sacks. HSM does not publish a packing list beyond the machine itself: freight, rigging into position and the three-phase electrical connection are separate from the machine price and are not included.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

Buy this if you handle personal data at volume — patient records, employee files, customer account paperwork, closed case files — and your policy, your insurer or your client contract expects P-4. It is also the pragmatic default when nobody has written the policy yet, because P-4 is high enough that you are unlikely to be told later that it was insufficient, and fast enough that the machine will not become the reason boxes pile up.

It is the wrong machine in two directions. If you are destroying material that is classified rather than merely personal, step up to the P-5 version at 1.9 × 15 mm and accept 90–100 sheets a pass and an extra 155 kg. If nothing you shred is personal or contractual and you simply need archive gone, the P-3 or P-2 versions clear far more paper per hour for the same electricity.

Note also what this machine does not do: it bags, it does not bale. Sites that ship shredded paper out by the tonne generally want the SP 5080 with the same 3.9 × 40 mm head, which adds an 80 kN press behind the cutting rollers.