HSM V-Press 860 ECO Vertical Bailing Press

The HSM V-Press 860 eco is the least expensive way into HSM's largest vertical baler chassis, and the only thing it gives up is the door. It presses with the same 594 kN as the 860 plus, fills through the same 1,195 x 650 mm aperture, and turns out the same 480 kg bale — but its double doors are opened and closed by hand, where the plus pushes its upper door half down and opens it for you at the end of the cycle. If your operators bale two or three times a shift rather than continuously, that is a difference you will barely notice and a saving you will.

This is a mill-size vertical baler for cardboard, mixed paper and plastic film. It is manually loaded and manually tied, and it produces a 1,200 x 1,200 x 780 mm bale that a forklift moves and a recycler will buy at a full-bale rate. It is not a machine for a stockroom corner: it stands 2,985 mm tall and HSM specifies a minimum ceiling height of 3,000 mm, so check the roof before you check the floor.

Key Features

• Double doors with a swinging upper half — the simplest and most serviceable door arrangement in the 860 range.
• 1,110 mm loading height, which is roughly waist height for most operators and low enough to tip a small cart into.
• Handles mixed paper as well as OCC and film, which the plus B does not.
• 594 kN of pressing force from a 4.8 kW motor. HSM prints this as "60 t" on its US pages; that is the force divided by gravity, not a weight.
• HSM TCS (Torsion Control System) monitors the press ram for twist. A ram that starts to skew in the chamber is the usual cause of expensive frame damage on vertical balers.
• Rapid stroke technology runs the ram fast through free air and slows it only when it meets resistance, which is where the 25 second idle cycle comes from.
• Automatic start after door close, so the operator loads, shuts the door and walks away. No two-hand start button to hold.
• Hand wheel door lock with counter-rotating thread — one turn locks or releases both sides.
• Membrane keypad with text display reporting machine state and faults in words rather than blink codes.
• Four-fold wire tying as standard. A polyester tape station is available as an option.

Specifications

What's in the Box

HSM does not publish a scope-of-delivery list for the V-Press range, so we will only state what is structurally certain: the press arrives assembled and skidded, with its operating instructions. Baling wire is not included. The machine takes 2.8 x 3,700 mm pre-looped wire, HSM part number 6135 993 002. Polyester tape (WG 55, part 6514 993 000) can be used only if the optional tape station is fitted at the factory — it is not a field retrofit you can order with the first roll of tape.

The machine needs a three-phase 480 V / 60 Hz connection made by an electrician, and it needs to be rigged into place: at 4,189 lb it is not going to be walked across a warehouse on a pallet jack.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

Buy the 860 eco if your site generates enough cardboard or film to justify a 480 kg bale but bales in batches — a distribution centre that flattens boxes into a cage all day and bales at the end of a shift, a printer clearing trim waste, a supermarket back room. The manual door costs an operator a few seconds per cycle and nothing else.

Buy the 860 plus instead if the machine will be cycled more or less continuously by staff who also have other jobs. Its power-assisted upper door opens itself when the cycle ends, which removes the one moment in the cycle where an operator has to stand and wait. It is 2,030 lb heavier in the chassis and 1,579 mm deep rather than 1,363 mm, so it needs more floor.

Buy the 860 plus B instead if you are baling bulky film, big bags or awkward oversized cartons. Its aperture is 1,500 mm wide against this machine's 1,195 mm, and its bales run to 550 kg. Note that HSM lists the plus B for cardboard and film only, not mixed paper.

Do not buy any 860 if your throughput justifies continuous automatic baling. Once you are feeding from a conveyor rather than by hand, a channel baler such as the VK 2306 does the job without an operator standing at the door, and the 860's 25 second manual cycle becomes the bottleneck.