Kobra Cyclone HS6

The Kobra Cyclone HS6 is the high-security build of the Cyclone chassis, supplied with the 006 screen. Kobra rates the Cyclone HS screens 005 and 006 as approximately P-5/P-6 and P-7 respectively under DIN 66399, which puts this configuration at the top of the paper destruction scale. The mechanism is the same rotary chamber as the standard Cyclone — material recirculates until it is fine enough to pass the mesh — but with a screen this fine, the output is closer to granulate than to shredded paper, and throughput falls accordingly.

Key Features

• 006 high-security screen. Kobra rates the 006 screen as approximately P-7 under DIN 66399 / ISO 21964 — particles of 5 mm² or less. The 005 screen, giving approximately P-5/P-6, is the alternative build.
• 500 sheets loaded at a time. Despite the fine screen, the feed is still a batch rather than a metered pass; the chamber does the work of reducing the load.
• Integrated vacuum and dust extraction. Essential rather than optional at this particle size. Granulating paper to a few square millimetres generates very fine dust, and the chamber is closed and extracted.
• Optional compactor. Kobra offers a compactor that reduces waste volume by a factor of four to five, which is significant when the output is light, fine and voluminous.
• Same chassis and drive as the standard Cyclone. 6 kW three-phase motor, 400 litre chamber, 970 lb machine — the security comes from the screen, not from a different frame.
• Screens remain interchangeable. The machine is not permanently committed to one level; the screen can be changed if the requirement changes.

Specifications

What's in the Box

Machine supplied with the high-security screen fitted and the integrated vacuum system in place. Confirm the screen designation on your order acknowledgement — the difference between the 005 and 006 screens is the difference between approximately P-5/P-6 and approximately P-7, and it is the whole basis of the purchase. Waste bags are not included. The compactor is a separate option. A 208 V three-phase supply at 50 A per phase is required.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

Buy it if you have a documented requirement for destruction above P-5 and the volume to justify an industrial machine: defence and intelligence contractors, government agencies, and organisations whose accreditation names a specific high-security level. The Cyclone chassis is one of the few ways to reach that level with batch loading of 500 sheets rather than a narrow high-security throat.

Do not buy it if P-5 covers your requirement — and for the overwhelming majority of commercial privacy programmes it does. High-security screens cut throughput sharply, generate more dust and fill the waste chamber faster, and you would be paying that cost for a level nobody has asked you to meet. The Kobra 430 TS C2 AO gives P-5 with a conveyor and far higher paper throughput; the standard Kobra Cyclone gives you the same chassis at P-2 to P-5 with much greater output and a wider material list including cardboard and cans. Note too that the HS material list is narrower than the standard Cyclone's: paper, cards and optical media, but not bottles, cans or cardboard.