HSM Powerline SP 5088 - 1/8 x 1 1/2 Industrial Shredder and Baler

This is the SP 5088 built for regulated destruction work: a 3.9 × 40 mm particle cut rated DIN 66399 P-4, feeding straight into an 85 kN press that turns the shred into 90 kg bales. One machine, one operator, one handling step from the confidential bin to a bale a recycler will collect and pay for.

What separates it from the rest of the Powerline family is the press, not the cutting head. The head is the same FA 500.3 assembly used in the SP 5080 and in the standalone FA 500.3, so shredding performance is identical to both. The SP 5088 exists because its KP 88.1 press makes a longer, heavier bale — up to 950 mm and 90 kg — and that only matters if you are shipping bales out by the trailer-load.

Key Features

• 3.9 × 40 mm particle cut, DIN P-4. 156 mm² per particle against the 160 mm² ceiling the standard sets for P-4 — inside the band, but not by much, which is normal for this class.
• Full media rating E-3 | F-1 | O-3 | P-4 | T-4. Optical discs, film, microform and electronic data carriers are covered by the same certificate as paper, so a mixed stream does not need a second machine.
• 180 to 200 sheets per pass at 80 g/m² from an 11.5 kW drive, rated for continuous operation rather than a duty cycle measured in minutes.
• 500 mm motorised conveyor feed. Whole files go on the belt; the operator is not standing at a throat feeding by hand.
• 85 kN KP 88.1 press producing bales of 500 × 500 mm in section and up to 950 mm long, at up to 90 kg.
• Induction-hardened solid steel cutting rollers. Staples and paper clips go through without pre-sorting.
• Automatic oiler, so cutting-head lubrication is not a task anyone has to remember.
• Emergency stop bar across the loading table.

Specifications

Metric figures are HSM's published values for this article. Imperial equivalents are converted from them. Note that HSM's own US web pages print these metric numbers under imperial unit labels — "500 inch" intake and "115 hp" drive are display faults on their site, not specifications.

What's in the Box

The SP 5088 is delivered as a palletised industrial installation, not a boxed product, and HSM publishes no packing list for it. Freight, rigging into position, the three-phase electrical connection, optional dust extraction and the polyester strapping used to tie bales are all priced separately from the machine. Confirm each of them before you place the order.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

Buy it if you are a commercial destruction operation or a large records centre that destroys personal data to a written P-4 policy and sells the residue by the load. The 90 kg bale is the reason the machine exists; a 950 mm bale loads a trailer more efficiently than the SP 5080's 800 mm bale, and across several loads a week that difference is real money.

Do not buy it if baling economics are not part of your problem. At 3281 mm deep this machine is nearly three and a half metres of floor, and the SP 5080 at the same 3.9 × 40 mm cut shreds identically in 807 mm less depth and 310 kg less machine. If you do not bale at all, the standalone FA 500.3 at 3.9 × 40 mm gives you the same cut into a wheeled container in a fraction of the footprint.

It is also the wrong choice if your stream is bulk commercial paper with no personal data in it. At P-4 you are paying for a security level you do not need and taking a throughput penalty for it: the P-3 version of this same machine runs 300 to 350 sheets a pass, and the P-2 version runs 510 to 550. Conversely, if a policy names P-5, this machine cannot meet it and no setting will change that.