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.

Documents can be bound from 2-150 sheets – ideal for the most popular documents. Sheets are easily loaded vertically and can be aligned perfectly to the adjustable edge guide.

The design uses separate punching and binding mechanisms positioned logically to improve performance. The comb size guide is simple to use and includes a comb storage tray for spare combs. The lid and punch handle fold flat to enable the machine to be stored tidily on its base or on its back.

• Star Comb Binder for Home Office Use
• Designed for occasional binding needs in the home office
• Compact, user friendly design and easy operation
• Punches 10 sheets at a time
• Binds documents up to 150 sheet – max comb width 18mm
• Full width punch handle requires minimal effort for manual punching
• Storage tray with patented comb & document measure allows user to select quickly
• Vertical sheet loading ensures consistent punch alignment
• Adjustable edge guide aligns sheets accurately

The success of WireBind and the reason it has become so popular in mainstream offices, is its 360º degree back-to-back facility in addition to the robustness and professional ‘bindery look’ of the metal wire used in the binding process.

Robustness of finish is enhanced by two key factors: the use of 34 square holes along the full paper length of an A4 sheet (3 holes per 25.4mm) and the ‘double-loop’ design of the wire element itself. The 34 square holes maintain rigidity and enable the free rotation of the sheets through the holes whilst the ‘double-loop’ construction minimizes flexing and bending.

When bound, pages can only be replaced or amended by removal of the Wire itself. Ideal when page security or confidentiality is an integral requirement of the document.

All Wires are pre-cut to standard paper sizes with turned ends ensuring no loss of sheet through continuous rotation and use.

Acco Rexel WB606 Binder

FlowlinePro WB606

The WB606 office wire binding machine combines simplicity with strength to create a professional bound document with ease. Featuring the unique Flowline Pro binding system which offers paper separating and auto centring as standard , the WB606 makes the binding process easy and ensures perfect results every time. This machine offers an A4 punch capacity of 15 sheets and binding up to the maximum 14mm wire.

Rexels A200 A4 Trimmer

A200 A4 trimmer is the perfect little accessory for multifunctional use in the home and for hobbies according to the manufacturer.

This trimmer is unique thanks to its ‘ ‘Dial-a-Blade’ technology, which means you can trim, score, wave-cut or perforate by simply turning the blade dial.

And don’t worry about changing the blade because Rexel says the A200 makes this safe to do.

This product just lets you get on with the task in hand thanks to its alignment grids and it can take up to 5 sheets at a time.