HSM Powerline SP 5088 - 1/4 x 1/2-2 3/32 Industrial Shredder and Baler

The SP 5088 takes the same FA 500.3 cutting head as the SP 5080 and puts a larger KP 88.1 press behind it: 85 kN instead of 80, bales of 500 × 500 × 950 mm weighing up to 90 kg instead of 80. What you pay for that is length. At 3281 mm deep and 1660 kg, this is a materially bigger installation than the SP 5080 for the same shredding performance, and the case for it is made almost entirely on the baling side.

Key Features

• 6 × 40–53 mm particle cut at DIN 66399 P-3 — 240 mm² per particle against a 320 mm² ceiling
• 300–350 sheets per pass at 80 g/m², identical to the SP 5080 at this cut
• KP 88.1 press at 85 kN producing 950 mm-long bales of up to 90 kg
• 500 mm (19.7 in) motorised conveyor belt feed
• 11.5 kW drive — HSM's US page renders this as "115 hp" and the 90 kg bale weight as "90 lb"; both are unit-label errors on their site
• Induction-hardened solid steel cutting rollers with automatic oiler
• Emergency stop bar across the loading table
• Built for continuous operation in a fixed destruction facility

Specifications

What's in the Box

The SP 5088 arrives as a palletised industrial installation and HSM publishes no packing list for it. Freight, rigging, the three-phase electrical connection, optional dust extraction and the strapping consumables for tying 950 mm bales are all separate from the machine price.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

The SP 5088 makes sense when the economics of the outgoing bale, not the incoming paper, drive the decision. A 90 kg bale at 500 × 500 × 950 mm loads a trailer more efficiently than an 80 kg bale at 570 × 490 × 800 mm, and for a destruction operation shipping several loads a week that difference compounds. Buyers are typically commercial shredding businesses and large records centres with a dedicated bay and a forklift.

For everyone else, the SP 5080 at the same 6 × 40–53 mm cut is the better buy. Shredding performance is identical — same head, same 500 mm conveyor, same 300–350 sheets, same 11.5 kW drive — but it is 807 mm shorter and 310 kg lighter. That 807 mm is often the difference between fitting in an existing waste bay and rebuilding one.

Note also the security ceiling. This variant is P-3, which suits general commercial-confidential paper but not personal data under a formal policy. HSM does build the SP 5088 with finer heads, but if you need P-4 or P-5 and want to buy from stock here, the SP 5080 at 3.9 × 40 mm (P-4) and the SP 5080 at 1.9 × 15 mm (P-5) are the practical routes.

One point in the SP 5088's favour that is easy to miss: because the cutting head is the same FA 500.3 assembly used across this whole family, the wear parts, the automatic oiler and the service procedure are shared with the SP 5080 and the standalone FA 500.3. A site running more than one Powerline machine can hold a single set of spares and train operators once, which is a genuine consideration for a commercial destruction operation with several machines on the floor.