HSM ProfiPack ecoChip Cardboard Chipper

The ecoChip is the ProfiPack that makes loose fill instead of mats. Where the C400 and P425 perforate a sheet of used cardboard so it opens into a flexible pad, the ecoChip cuts it into chips roughly 10.5 mm wide and 40 to 200 mm long — material you pour around an awkward object rather than wrap over a flat one.

That is the entire reason to choose it. If your goods are boxed rectangles, a mat is better and cheaper to make. If they are bottles, castings, instruments, ceramics or anything with a shape that a sheet will not follow, chips fill the voids the way bought loose fill does, out of cardboard you already have. This article is supplied with the adapter set for connecting a vacuum cleaner or dust extractor, which is worth having because chipping throws considerably more dust than perforating does.

Key Features

• Cardboard chips at 10.5 × 40–200 mm — a pourable loose fill, not a sheet.
• Up to 100 kg/h from a 1,870 W motor.
• 100–240 V / 50–60 Hz single phase. Like the single-phase P425, it needs no three-phase installation.
• 425 mm intake width, up to 3 layers and 20 mm of infeed height, so double-wall cartons go in as they come.
• Vacuum / dust-extractor adapter set included with this article.
• Approximately 67 dB(A) at idle — between the quiet P425 and the benchtop C400.
• 171.5 kg on a 769 × 698 × 1035 mm footprint, floor standing and stable enough to feed continuously.

Specifications

What's in the Box

The ecoChip machine and the adapter set for connecting a vacuum cleaner or dust-extraction unit. The extractor or vacuum itself is not included — the adapter is the interface, not the suction. HSM's DE 1-8 is the matched extraction system if you want one specified rather than improvised. No collection hopper or bagging system is supplied; plan where the chips are going to land.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

Buy the ecoChip if what you ship does not lie flat. Wine and spirits, glassware, ceramics, castings, laboratory instruments, spare parts of varying shapes — these are packed by pouring fill around the item, and a perforated mat is a poor substitute. Making that fill from inbound cartons removes both a waste-disposal cost and a purchased-consumable cost, and the machine plugs into an ordinary outlet.

Do not buy it for flat, boxed, uniform goods. For those the single-phase ProfiPack P425 makes mats faster (120 kg/h on its three-phase sibling, 80 kg/h single phase) and mats are quicker to apply than loose fill when the shape is predictable. For one low-volume bench, the benchtop C400 is the proportionate machine.

Two honest limitations. First, chips are messier than mats in every part of the process — making them, storing them, dispensing them, and at the customer's end unpacking them. Budget for a hopper and accept some sweeping. Second, cardboard chips are heavier and less springy than expanded plastic loose fill; they protect by filling and bracing rather than by cushioning, so for genuinely fragile items you may still want a wrap layer underneath.