HSM SECURIO P36i 3/16 x 1 1/18 with Separate CD Cutting Unit 4x7mm

This is the P36i 4.5 x 30 mm cross-cut shredder with a second, independent cutting unit bolted to the side for optical media. Paper goes through the main throat at P-4; CDs, DVDs, credit and loyalty cards and floppy disks go into the media unit and come out as 4 x 7 mm particles in their own waste container. Keeping the two streams apart is the point — disc fragments never touch the paper head.

Key Features

• Two cutting units, two waste streams. The 4 x 7 mm media unit has its own container, so shredded plastic and aluminium never mix with paper waste you may want to recycle.
• P-4 on paper, O-4 on optical media, T-5 on magnetic media — a higher media rating than the base 1853121, which is the reason the combined class string differs.
• 27–29 sheets per pass at 80 g/m² through the 330 mm throat, unchanged from the standard model.
• Integrated automatic oiler on the paper cutting head keeps capacity consistent over the life of the machine.
• 145-litre paper bin holding about 1,773 sheets of shredded material.
• Five-year warranty and lifetime cover on the solid steel cutting rollers.
• EcoSmart standby at 0.1 W and automatic paper-jam prevention.

Specifications

What's in the Box

The document shredder arrives assembled on its wheeled cabinet with the reusable collection insert fitted in the 145-litre bin, mains lead and manual. The separate media cutting unit ships as its own free-standing unit with its own small waste container. Disposable plastic sacks are not supplied; the replacement reusable insert for the main bin is part HSM1850BOX.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

Buy this if your destruction policy covers more than paper. IT departments decommissioning laptops, finance teams destroying expired cards, and clinics disposing of imaging discs all end up needing a rated media path, and bolting a separate unit onto a P-4 paper shredder is far cheaper than buying a second machine.

Skip it if optical media is a once-a-year event — the base P36i 4.5 x 30 mm (article 1853121) is the same shredder for meaningfully less, and it is 6 kg lighter. Skip it too if the paper itself needs better than P-4: the media unit does not raise the paper class. For P-5 paper with a media unit, look at the P40i 1.9 x 15 mm with CD unit (1882121C); for P-7 paper with an optical media destroyer, the P36i L6 OMDD Combo (1854123S).