HSM ProfiPack P425 Packaging Padding Machine for Cardboard Conversion - Alternating current Standard - HSM1531

This is the ProfiPack P425 in its single-phase form, and that is the whole reason to choose it over its three-phase siblings: it runs on 100–240 V at 50 or 60 Hz, so it can be plugged in wherever there is a socket rated for its 1,870 W draw. No electrician, no dedicated circuit, no waiting on an electrical contractor before the machine can earn anything.

Mechanically it is the full floor-standing P425: 425 mm intake, up to three layers of cardboard or 20 mm of infeed height, and a rated 80 kg per hour of finished cushioning mat. It is a packing-line machine rather than a bench accessory, and at 160 kg it stays where you put it.

Key Features

• Single-phase supply, 100–240 V / 50–60 Hz. The only P425 that does not need three-phase power.
• Up to 3 layers, 20 mm infeed height. Double-wall cartons and folded sections go in without being separated first, which is the practical difference between this and the benchtop C400.
• 425 mm intake width and a rated 80 kg/h throughput.
• Approximately 60 to 62 dB(A) — quieter than the small benchtop C400, because the mass of a 160 kg floor-standing frame damps the cutting rollers.
• Induction-hardened solid steel cutting rollers, specified by HSM to survive the staples that come in with used cartons.
• Dust extraction available. The HSM DE 1-8 extractor connects through an adapter set, which the three-phase variant of this machine is also sold with.
• 770 × 611 × 1040 mm, so it fits alongside a packing bench rather than replacing one.

Specifications

What's in the Box

The machine as a standalone unit. The dust-extraction adapter set is not fitted to this article — HSM sells that as part of a separate P425 configuration — and the DE 1-8 extractor itself is a separate product in any case. No cardboard, no consumables and no strapping are involved; the P425 has no consumable other than electricity.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

Specify the single-phase P425 when the machine has to go somewhere that three-phase power does not reach, or when you want it running this month rather than after an electrical job. Typical sites are e-commerce fulfilment rooms, spare-parts counters, ceramics and glassware dispatch, and any operation that receives goods in double-wall cartons and ships smaller items back out.

Where it falls short is sustained heavy duty. At 1,870 W and 80 kg/h it is meaningfully slower than the three-phase P425, which draws 3,800 W and is rated to 120 kg/h. If two or three packing stations depend on one machine and it runs most of the day, the three-phase version is the correct buy and the electrical work pays for itself in throughput.

If you only pack a handful of parcels a day, this is more machine than you need: the benchtop ProfiPack C400 does the same job for one bench at 50 kg/h and weighs 46 kg instead of 160. And if your goods are awkwardly shaped and need loose fill poured around them rather than mats wrapped over them, look at the ProfiPack ecoChip, which produces chips instead.