HSM SECURIO B22 1/16 x 5/8 Cross Cut Document Shredder - HSM1832

The 1/16" x 5/8" SECURIO B22 is the highest security level HSM offers on its compact B22 chassis, and it is aimed squarely at the small practice that handles sensitive records but does not have the volume - or the floor space - to justify a departmental machine. Particles measure 1.9 x 15 mm, an area of 28.5 mm², which places it inside DIN 66399 class P-5. Sheet capacity drops to 7-9 at 80 g/m², the lowest of the four B22 cutting heads, and that is the honest cost of the security level. Everything else about the machine is unchanged: 440 W motor, 9.45" throat, 8.7-gallon pull-out bin.

Key Features

• P-5 micro cut at 1.9 x 15 mm – 28.5 mm² particles - inside the 30 mm² class limit, and roughly 2,100 pieces from a single letter-size page.
• T-5 rating for cards – Bank cards, ID cards and other magnetic-stripe media can be destroyed to the same high class as the paper.
• Compact 375 x 310 x 600 mm cabinet – P-5 in a machine that fits alongside a desk rather than needing its own corner.
• Automatic start-stop with overload protection – Keeps the operator's hands out of the process and reduces the jams that fine cutters are prone to.
• Safety element over the intake – A physical barrier between the throat and the cutting rollers.
• Lifetime warranty on the cutting rollers – P-5 is the highest security level to which HSM's lifetime roller warranty extends - a point worth weighing before moving up to P-6.

Specifications

Specifications are taken from HSM's datasheet for article 1832121, the EU-market equivalent of US part 1832123. Sheet capacities are quoted at 80 g/m²; HSM's range brochure quotes higher figures measured at 70 g/m².

What's in the Box

Supplied assembled with the pull-out waste bin fitted. Bags are not included: HSM's reusable collecting bag for the 104/105/108/420/AF150/AF300/B22/B24 group is the right consumable, sold in the US as HSM 1310. Order cutting-block oil at the same time. On a P-5 head this is maintenance, not an optional extra - the fine cutters clog with paper dust and lose capacity within weeks of heavy unlubricated use.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

This is the machine for a solicitor's office, an accountancy practice, a clinic's back office or an HR function - somewhere the paper is genuinely sensitive but arrives in folders rather than archive boxes. It gives you a defensible destruction standard in the smallest, quietest package HSM builds at this level.

Do not buy it if throughput is the pressure point. Seven to nine sheets a pass is slow for a shared machine, and a queue forms quickly. The 1/8" x 1 1/8" B22 at P-4 takes 9-11 and the 1/4" strip-cut B22 takes 17-19, both in this same cabinet. If you need P-5 and volume together, the SECURIO B24 at 1/16" x 5/8" gives 9-11 sheets with a 610 W continuous-duty motor, and the AF500 in the same cut adds a 500-sheet automatic feed tray. Also note that this cutting head is not rated for CDs or DVDs - no P-5 B22 is - so plan separately for optical media.