HSM Powerline SP 4040 V - 1/4 x 2 Industrial Shredder and Baler - HSM3514

This is the version of the SP 4040 V most buyers should look at first. Moving from the strip-cut model to a 5.8 × 50 mm particle cut lifts it from DIN 66399 P-2 to P-3 and costs only eight sheets a pass — 96 instead of 104. Everything behind the cutting head is unchanged: the same KP 40 V vertical press, the same 44 kN, the same 35 kg bales, the same 737 kg machine. It is a rare case where a step up in security is close to free.

Key Features

• 5.8 × 50 mm particle cut — 290 mm² per particle against the 320 mm² DIN 66399 permits for P-3
• 96 sheets per pass at 80 g/m², eight fewer than the strip-cut version for a full security level gained
• Rated E-2, O-2 and T-3 alongside P-3
• Two machines in one footprint: an FA 400.2 cutting head feeding a KP 40 V vertical baling press
• 44 kN pressing force turns loose shred into bales of 600 × 500 × 400 mm weighing up to 35 kg
• 428 mm (16.9 in) intake width with conveyor feed
• 6.2 kW three-phase drive
• Induction-hardened solid steel cutting rollers
• Baling removes the loose-shred handling problem entirely — no sacks to fill, drag and stack, and a baled load is worth more to a recycler than a bagged one
• Compact for a shredder-baler at 1117 mm wide, though it needs 1981 mm of headroom

Specifications

What's in the Box

This is a palletised industrial installation rather than a boxed product, and HSM does not publish a shipping contents list for it. Freight, rigging into position, the three-phase electrical connection and any strapping consumables for tying finished bales are separate from the machine price. Confirm all four when you order.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

Specify this one for general commercial-confidential destruction with baled output: solicitors' closed files, accounts paperwork, internal reports, operational records, superseded contracts. It suits a site that produces enough paper to justify a baler but is not running a formal privacy programme with a named DIN level in it.

If a named level does exist and it says P-4 — which is increasingly common for anything involving personal data — go to the SP 4040 V at 3.9 × 40 mm, which drops to 80 sheets a pass. In the other direction, if the paper genuinely is not sensitive and you only want it gone and baled, the 5.8 mm strip-cut version is marginally faster and easier on the cutting head.

And if the volumes are larger than a department's worth, do not force this machine to do it. The SP 5080 at 6 × 40–53 mm is also P-3 but takes 300–350 sheets a pass and bales to 80 kg — a different class of machine with a footprint and a price to match.