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HSM is now firmly established in the UK market. Whilst total HSM worldwide sales turnover increased in 2002 by over 10% to 56.5 Million Euros, the U.K is now one of their key markets and continued to double sales, compared with the same month the previous year.

The company is now the leading supplier of shredders to Spicers. In addition, their products have recently been included in the catalogues of five of the major dealer groups.

To keep pace with the expansion new, purpose built premises have recently been constructed at Burntwood near Cannock. The new central location will further improve the company’s facilities and customer service.

Further recognising HSM’s success in the UK and the German parents commitment to invest in the future, the UK divisions have become an operating Company in their own right. As a result the name and the legal identity has been changed to HSM UK Limited. Many of the administration and accounting functions will now be undertaken at the new offices.

Proven Best Buys Get Better

The recent edition of the highly respected What to Buy For Business awards, evaluating and advising on the purchase of paper shredders, has once again proven the quality and value for money of HSM products. The Company has been awarded more than half of the Best Buy awards available.

This year, the number of Best Buy classifications has been restricted to only seven. However, with HSM winning four of these their shredders dominated the results. HSMs direct competitors within the office products distribution channel did not win any of the highest classifications.

With a wide number of variations for straight and cross cut blade arrangements available, the Best Buy awards actually cover over twenty different HSM models.

To enhance their range still further, HSM is now intro­ducing a complete range of shredders that generate the smallest particle size currently possible in the commercial market. These Level 6 machines produce particles that are almost half the square area of what were previously the best performing Level 5 shredders. Users can be even surer that their information has been destroyed so helping to prevent fraud even further. The new Level 6 shredders are available from HSM now.

Successful Start with Spiceis

Following a very successful first year with Spicers in 2002, sales of HSM Shredders through the UKs major whole­saler continue to grow exponentially. Turnover for HSM products during the initial months of 2003 rose by a highly impressive 175 percent.

HSM first entered into partnership with Spicers only just over eighteen months ago. However, both companies have been very pleased with the success and excellent results achieved.

When invited to comment Richard Dear of Spicers said “We have been very pleased with the excellent growth achieved since we included the HSM range into our cata­logue, and, even better, the increase is continuing.”

As a founder exhibitor, HSM will again be at the SOS Shows in the autumn.

New Guillotines and Trimmers

HSM’s cutting edge expertise and technology has been utilised to develop a new range of paper trimmers and guillotines.

Similar to the shredders, the new products combine German manufacturing quality with competitive, value for money prices. There are a total of 18 different models in the range, all of which are packaged in smart HSM boxes making them suitable for both commercial and retail sale.

The Intellishred Shredder  C-120i from fellowes is a Ideal commercial use office shredder ideal for 5 or more users. It provides a basic security strip cuts and cuts 18 sheets at a time into 5.8mm thick pieces.

This C-120i  shredders comes with Safe sense technology which automatically stops shredding when touched and also comes with a 100% Jam proof system witch prevents the shredder from jamming.

With its Stylish up to date design it maximises the modern office space with a 230mm width. The C-120i comes with a huge 49 litre pull out waste bucket and a separate waste bin for CDs for recycling.

Fellowes offer a 2 full year warranty and a 20 year cutter warranty.

Overall Fellowes have pulled off another great shredder, the C-120i is a must have in any digital office environment especially with its ultra quite shredding.

Key Points

• 100% Jam Proof System prevents the machine from jamming and self-corrects when paper is not fed in properly
• SafeSense® technology automatically stops the shredder when touched
• Energy saving feature switches the shredder to standby after 2 minutes of inactivity reducing the amount of energy consumed
• Extended run time for high volume shredding
• Pull-out bin for easy emptying
• SilentShred™ minimises office disruption
• Slimline design maximises office space

Swordfish shredders are well-known for their quality and value for money, but the 1000XCD also boasts an innovative design.

Its ’space-saver’ design lets you store and operate the shredder underneath your desk, but it comes with wheels in case you want to keep it somewhere else. Plus its 15 litre waste bin neatly slides out of the narrow side of the shredder.

But just because it’s sleek doesn’t mean it can’t handle big shredding jobs – at 2 metres per minute, it can easily shred paper, clips and credit cards for ID theft prevention.

If you want to shred CDs or DVDs then this shredder cleverly embosses hundreds of tiny dimples into both sides of the disc, so it’s impossible to read. Forever.

The Swordfish 1000XCD cross cut shredder is the must-have device for any digital office.

The Fellowes brand is known for its excellent shredding technology and it doesn’t disappoint with the C120I Strip Cut Shredder.

Its 100 per cent jam proof system prevents the machine from jamming and even self-corrects when the paper hasn’t been fed in correctly, says the manufacturer.

Its SafeSense technology is another intelligent feature by Fellowes. SafeSense  technology automatically turns off the shredder when hands touch the paper entry.  It also has an energy saving feature that switches the shredder to standby after two minutes of inactivity.

And you can’t have failed to notice its slimline design.

Perfect for a full office or a busy home study.

The perfect place for this new data shredder is in the department. As an all-rounder, it shreds paper, CD-ROMs, floppy disks, credit cards, access entry cards, and I.D.s.

This new concept allows you to shred CD-ROMs in strip cut as well as in cross cut particles.

• On / Off control via light barrier

• cutters will shred paper clips and staples

• separate slot for CD-ROMs

• LED for control display („shredder ON“, „paper jam“, „overheat“,„open removed“ and „bin full“)

• dustproof enclosed bin

• easy to empty – simply slide out the bin

• moveable on four castors

• contemporary colour and design for all office environments

• 10 years warranty on cutters

Id Fraud Week 2009 – How much are you revealing?

Identity fraud is on the increase, 79% of businesses make no effort to destroy sensitive material before disposal.

How many times a day could you be risking your own or your company’s identity by leaving sensitive information lying around?

Key steps for preventing fraud identity and identity theft.

1. Don’t leave credit card and bank details lying around
2. Don’t throw sensitive information in the bin
3. Don’t make confidential documents clearly visible
4. Don’t leave documents lying around the printer
5. Don’t leave papers in meeting rooms
6. Don’t wait for a weekly collection of documents to shred

Download the identity fraud prevention guide
from stop-idfraud.co.uk.

Take a look at are shredder section for the best office equipment agaisnt id fraud.