HSM V-Press 1160 Eco Vertical Bailing Press

The V-Press 1160 eco is HSM's mill-size vertical baler: 594 kN of pressing force producing a bale 1200 mm square and 1100 mm high, weighing up to 550 kg. That bale is the point of the machine. At 550 kg you are producing a unit that paper mills and recyclers buy at a mill-grade price and collect on a standard trailer, rather than a small bale that gets handled as mixed waste.

It is also the reason this is a serious installation rather than a corner machine. The 1160 stands 2985 mm high, weighs 2300 kg empty, ties with four-fold wire, and needs a forklift to handle finished bales. Check your ceiling before anything else.

Key Features

• 594 kN pressing force, more than three times the V-Press 820 plus and well over twice the 825.
• Specific pressing pressure of 45 N/cm² (65.3 psi) — the figure that actually governs how dense a cardboard bale you get.
• Bale of 1200 × 1200 × 1100 mm at up to 550 kg, a mill-standard unit rather than a handling bale.
• 1195 × 650 mm loading aperture. Flattened cartons go in without being cut down.
• Four-fold wire strapping as standard, which is what holds a 550 kg bale together; HSM offers a tape station as an option.
• 4.8 kW three-phase drive at 480 V / 60 Hz.
• Rated for cardboard, plastic film and mixed paper, so a mixed dry recyclables stream can go through one machine.

Specifications

Dimensions and machine weight are HSM's figures for this US article number (6140113). HSM's European listing for the 1160 eco quotes a shallower depth on a different article number, so use the figures above for planning a US installation and confirm the delivered footprint on the order acknowledgement.

What's in the Box

The press itself, delivered on a truck and set in place by the installer. Baling wire is a consumable and is not supplied. Neither is the optional tape station, the three-phase electrical connection, or the forklift you will need to move 550 kg bales. HSM publishes no packing list for this machine.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

This is a machine for sites that generate cardboard by the tonne: distribution centres, large retail, manufacturers receiving components in bulk packaging, and waste-management operations consolidating dry recyclables. The economic case rests on the 550 kg bale — at that weight you are selling a mill-grade commodity and paying for far fewer collections, and both sides of that add up quickly at volume.

It is the wrong machine for a site with a low roof or a modest volume. At 2985 mm high it will not go into a standard commercial unit with a 3 m ceiling once you allow clearance, and it weighs 2300 kg before a bale is in it. If your ceiling is the constraint, the V-Press 825 plus stands 2370 mm — 615 mm lower — and still makes a 280 kg bale. If volume is the constraint, the V-Press 820 plus at 178 kN is a more proportionate spend.

Against its closest sibling, the V-Press 1160 plus, the eco presses identically: same 594 kN, same 550 kg bale, same 1195 × 650 mm aperture. On HSM's published data the plus is a deeper and heavier machine (2427 kg against 2300 kg). HSM does not publish a feature-by-feature breakdown of what the extra depth and mass provide, so if the difference matters to your decision, ask us to get it confirmed rather than assuming it is only badge engineering.