HSM ProfiPack P425 Packaging Padding Machine for Cardboard Conversion - Three-phase current Standard

This is the fast P425. Same 425 mm intake and same 20 mm infeed height as the single-phase machine, but a 3.8 kW three-phase motor instead of a 1,870 W single-phase one, and a rated throughput of up to 120 kg of cardboard per hour instead of 80. You buy it when a packing operation is waiting on the padding machine rather than the other way round.

The cost of that is an electrical installation. It needs a 208 V three-phase supply hard-wired by an electrician, which has to be in place before the machine arrives. If that is not available at the site, the single-phase P425 does the same job more slowly on an ordinary socket.

Key Features

• 3.8 kW three-phase drive at 208 V / 60 Hz — twice the motor of the single-phase P425.
• Up to 120 kg/h of finished cushioning mat, a 50% increase over the single-phase machine from the same intake.
• 425 mm intake, 20 mm infeed height, up to 3 layers. Double-wall cartons feed without being split.
• Multi-layer output. The extra torque is what makes consistent multi-layer mats practical rather than occasional.
• Induction-hardened solid steel cutting rollers to survive staples and grit in used cartons.
• 181 kg on the same 770 × 611 × 1040 mm footprint as the single-phase version — the extra 21 kg is motor and gearing, not size.
• No consumables. The input is waste you already have; the machine itself needs nothing bought in.

Specifications

HSM does not publish a noise figure for the three-phase P425. The single-phase machine on the same chassis is rated at approximately 60 to 62 dB(A); we have not seen a measured figure for this motor and are not going to quote one by analogy.

What's in the Box

The machine on its own, in the plain three-phase configuration. The dust-extraction adapter set is not included with this article — that is a separate P425 configuration, and the HSM DE 1-8 extractor unit is a separate product again. The 208 V three-phase connection is site work and is not supplied.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

This is the configuration for a real packing operation: multiple dispatch benches, cardboard arriving faster than one person can process it, and a machine expected to run for most of a shift. At 120 kg/h it will keep several packers supplied with cushioning mat and still absorb the incoming carton waste, which is the point at which a padding machine stops being a nice idea and starts replacing a purchased consumable line.

Do not specify it if the site has no three-phase power. The wiring is not optional and it is not trivially retrofitted in a leased unit — in that case buy the single-phase P425, accept 80 kg/h and plug it in. Equally, if the machine will run for twenty minutes a day, the extra motor is wasted; the benchtop ProfiPack C400 covers a single bench at 50 kg/h for a fraction of the outlay.

If dust control matters — a cleanroom-adjacent packing area, food or medical goods, or simply a manager who does not want cardboard fibre settling on stock — order the P425 supplied with the dust-extraction adapter set instead of this one. It is the same machine and the same 3.8 kW motor, plus the connection hardware.

And if the goods you ship are irregular enough that mats do not wrap them cleanly, the ProfiPack ecoChip makes loose cardboard chips instead of sheets, which pour into voids the way loose fill does.