EN16500 European Safety Standard for Vertical Balers

EN16500:2014: A European Standard in A Global World

A European body called CEN (the European Committee for Standardization), together with key players in the vertical baler marketing have, over several years, developed a new set of safety standards by which vertical balers should comply.

These new regulations are designed to protect end users from harm and minimize their risk where possible, and therefore include regulations around the pressing plate, bale chamber, the bale ejection process, the control actuators, emergency stop systems, noise reduction, instruction manuals and labels; essentially, any and all potential hazards a user could face while operating the machine. 

As a result, Mil-tek's vertical balers have all undergone updates to in accordance with these standards.

 *The 101 Can Press is not classified as a baler, but has been similarly upgraded

A Global European Standard

EN16500 is a European Safety Standard. We at Mil-tek are committed to safety. We firmly believe that the changes to our machines represent improvements made in every respect, and as such ceased producing balers that were not EN16500 compliant.

Mil-tek have been manufacturing Balers and Compactors since 1992 and have been at the forefront of compliance and proactivity in improving health and safety standards since this time. We intend to continue this tradition. 

Mil-tek balers and compactors have been certified by CE, ANSI (American National Standards Institute) and AS/NZ 4024.1, and our organisation is both ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 certified.

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