HSM ProfiPack C400 Cardboard Perforator for Efficient Packaging Padding Creation - HSM1528

The ProfiPack C400 turns the cardboard you already throw away into packing material. It is a benchtop machine: 47 kg, 610 mm wide, running from an ordinary 115 V outlet, and it perforates and cuts a sheet of used cardboard in one pass so the sheet opens out into a flexible mat that wraps and cushions goods in a carton.

The single thing that defines it against the rest of the ProfiPack range is that it takes one layer at a time, up to 10 mm thick. That is single-wall carton stock. If your waste is double-wall, or if you are feeding folded boxes without breaking them down, this is the wrong machine and the floor-standing P425 is the right one.

Key Features

• 415 mm intake across a 400 mm working width — enough for most single-wall carton panels fed the short way.
• Up to 50 kg of cardboard per hour, which for a small dispatch bench is comfortably more than a packer can consume.
• 855 W motor on a 110–120 V / 60 Hz supply. Standard wall socket, no electrical work, no three-phase.
• Induction-hardened solid steel cutting rollers. Cardboard carries staples and grit, and hardened rollers are why the machine survives them.
• Approximately 68 to 70 dB(A). Audible, and worth siting away from a phone desk — the floor-standing P425 is actually the quieter machine.
• 46.6 kg and 610 × 395 × 375 mm, so it sits on a bench and can be moved by two people without equipment.
• Removes a waste stream and a purchase at the same time: less cardboard going to the baler, less bought void fill coming in.

Specifications

What's in the Box

The machine only. HSM does not publish a bundled accessory list for the C400, and unlike the larger ProfiPack models there is no dust-extraction adapter option for it. If you want the output collected rather than falling onto the bench, plan a bin or a table cut-out yourself.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

This suits a single dispatch bench in a shop, a laboratory, a small e-commerce operation or a repair depot — anywhere that packs tens of parcels a day, generates its own carton waste and currently buys bubble wrap or paper void fill. The economics are straightforward: 50 kg an hour of free cushioning is more than a one-person packing station will ever use, and the machine needs no installation beyond a socket and a bench that will carry 47 kg.

It is not the machine for a warehouse. One layer at a time means an operator has to open out and separate cardboard by hand before it goes in, and that becomes the bottleneck long before the motor does. If you are processing double-wall cartons, feeding continuously, or want more than one packing station supplied, move up to the ProfiPack P425, which takes up to three layers and 20 mm, runs at 80 kg/h and can be connected to dust extraction.

It is also the wrong machine if you want loose fill rather than mats. The C400 makes a flat perforated sheet for wrapping and layering; if what you need is chips to pour into voids around an irregular item, that is the ProfiPack ecoChip, which shreds cardboard into 10.5 mm-wide chips instead.