Manufacturers

3D Systems

3D Systems is an American manufacturer of industrial metal 3D printers, founded in 1986 by Chuck Hull who invented stereolithography. Their DMP (Direct Metal Printing) platform serves aerospace, medical, and automotive production.

AKS Cutting Systems

AKS Cutting Systems designs and builds CNC plasma and waterjet cutting machines at its factory headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. The plasma range runs from the unitized PLASMATIC and tru-kut tables through the accu-kut to the rail-mounted dura-kut gantry, and the water-kut X2, X3 and X4 are its abrasive waterjets. The company describes itself as a fourth-generation, family-owned business that began as Lyons Tool and Die and dates its history from 1912.

ANCA

ANCA is an Australian manufacturer of CNC tool and cutter grinders, founded in 1974. Headquartered in Melbourne, ANCA builds high-precision 5-axis CNC grinding machines used worldwide for manufacturing cutting tools, including end mills, drills, and specialty tooling. Their machines are known for industry-leading accuracy and the iGrind software platform.

ATLIX

ATLIX is the independent metal additive manufacturing company formed in 2026 from TRUMPF's additive business (ATLIX S.r.l., Schio, with ATLIX GmbH in Ditzingen and ATLIX Inc. in Texas). Its xBUILD 1000/2000/3000/5000 laser powder-bed fusion systems continue the TruPrint platforms; the TruPrint pages on this site are filed here.

AWEA

AWEA Mechantronic Co., Ltd. is a Taiwanese machine tool builder headquartered in Hsinchu, with further plants in Taichung (Central Taiwan Science Park), Chiayi and Suzhou. It builds C-frame vertical machining centers (the linear-guide AF series and the box-way BM series), bridge type, gantry type and 5-face machining centers, horizontal machining centers, horizontal boring mills and 5-axis machines. The company states that it is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange and certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.

AXA

AXA Entwicklungs- und Maschinenbau GmbH is a family-owned German builder of travelling column and gantry machining centres, with development, construction and production in its own factory in Schöppingen, Westphalia. Its range runs from the compact VCC and the two-station DBZ through the long-bed VSC and tilting-head VHC travelling column machines to the VPC, PFZ and UPFZ gantry machining centres. AXA says it makes core components such as main spindles, swivel heads, tool changers and rotary tables in-house and tailors machines to the customer's application.

AXYZ International

AXYZ International is a Canadian manufacturer of industrial CNC routers for sign making, composites, woodworking, and plastics fabrication, with over 30 years of routing machine experience and a North American service network.

Accurl

Accurl builds sheet metal working machinery in the Bowang District of Ma'anshan, Anhui, China, and states that the Accurl brand was founded in 2014. Its range covers CNC press brakes (Smart, Euro Pro, Genius, eB Ultra and EuroMaster lines), fiber laser cutting machines including the X-Series platform (SMART Cube X, SmartLINE X, MasterLINE X, SMART Giant X), servo turret punch presses, shears and waterjets. The company also lists a United States office in West Jordan, Utah.

Accurpress

Accurpress is a Canadian manufacturer of hydraulic CNC press brakes with over 50 years in the North American sheet metal fabrication market, known for reliable heavy-duty bending machines from 55 to 1100 tons.

AccuteX

AccuteX Technologies builds wire cut EDM machines in Taichung, Taiwan, and states that the company was established in 2001. Its wire range runs from the general-purpose GA and AU series through the AL series to the linear-motor AZ and AP series, with AU moving-column machines for workpieces of several tonnes. It also lists ZNC and CM series die sinker EDMs.

Accuway

Accuway (ACCUWAY Machinery Co., Ltd.) is a Taiwanese machine tool builder based in Shengang, Taichung, founded in 1986 according to its own company profile. It builds CNC turning centers, including two-spindle and two- and three-turret mill-turn lathes and vertical turning centers, as well as BT40 and BT50 vertical machining centers and 5-axis machining centers. The company says it operates two factories in central Taiwan and makes its own castings, spindles and BMT live-tooling turrets.

Acme-Gridley

American manufacturer of multi-spindle automatic screw machines

Akira Seiki

Akira Seiki is a Taiwanese machine tool builder based in Taichung; its site says the company was founded in 1985 and set up its production factory in Taiwan in 2005. It builds vertical machining centers (the JR/SR, V, HV and SV series), tapping and production machining centers (PC, RMV), horizontal machining centers, 5-axis machines and the SL series of CNC turning centers, most of them on its own AKIRA Mi845 control. The company states that it sells in over 60 countries.

Alzmetall

ALZMETALL is a German machine builder and foundry based in Altenmarkt, Bavaria, founded in 1945 and known first for industrial drilling machines, including radial, column and iTRONIC touchscreen drill presses. Its machine tool division builds the GS series of gantry-type vertical machining centres (GS 600 to GS 1400) in 3-axis, 5-axis torque-drive and hybrid milling-turning (FDT) versions, with subsidiaries in the US and China.

Amada

Leading Japanese manufacturer of sheet metal fabrication equipment including laser cutters, press brakes, punch presses, and automated bending cells. One of the world's largest metalworking machinery manufacturers.

Anderson

Anger Machining

ANGER Machining GmbH was founded in 1982 in Traun, Austria, by Anton Anger and has been part of the Taiwan-based Tongtai Group (TTGroup) since 2015. Its current range covers horizontal machining centers, from the compact THA series to the twin-spindle SP2 and PP2 machines for battery trays and aluminium profiles and the 5-axis HS series for aerospace parts, and vertical machines including the VTX, VP and TMV series and the GT and SK 5-axis gantry machining centers.

Arclight Dynamics

Arclight Dynamics builds CNC plasma cutting tables in the United States and ships them from Oregon and Illinois. Its range covers the Arc Pro tables for general fabrication and the heavier welded-frame Arc Max tables for plate, each offered with the company's own Arc CNC software or with FlashCut CNC. The site presents the company as a Piranha fabrication company.

BLM Group

BLM Group is an Italian maker of machines for processing tube, wire and sheet metal, made up of three companies: BLM S.p.A. (tube and wire bending, end-forming and 5-axis laser cutting), ADIGE S.p.A. (tube cutting, laser and conventional) and ADIGE-SYS S.p.A. (combined sheet and tube laser cutting and Lasertube machines for large diameters). Its laser range covers the Lasertube tube lasers from the LT5.10 to the LT24, the LS5 and LS7 sheet lasers, the combined LC5 and the LT-FREE and LT360 cells for bent and formed parts. The company describes its machines as made in Italy and dates its first Lasertube for round tubes to 1988.

Baykal

Baykal Makina is a sheet metal machinery builder based in Bursa, Turkey, whose own history page traces its foundation to the early 1950s. It builds hydraulic and hybrid press brakes (APHS, APHS PRO, APHS HYBRID), fiber laser cutting machines for sheet and tube (BLE, BLS PRO, BLM, BLU, BLT, BLC), plasma cutting machines (BPS, BPL H) and shears. The company states that it has built machines to the European CE regulations since 1995.

Biesse

Biglia

Officine E. Biglia & C. S.p.A. builds CNC lathes and turning centres at Incisa Scapaccino (Asti), Italy. The range has two lines: the universal turning centres B620, B750 and B1250, offered with driven tools, C and Y axes, a sub-spindle or a CNC tailstock, and the BMX twin-spindle, twin-turret machines for multi-axis work from bar. The company gives 1958 as its founding year.

Blohm

CNC surface and profile grinding machines, part of United Grinding Group

Bodor

Chinese fiber laser cutting machine manufacturer

Boschert

Bourn & Koch

Bourn & Koch, Inc. designs and builds CNC machine tools in Rockford, Illinois, where it started in 1975 as a machine tool rebuilder. Its new machines are the H-Series horizontal gear hobbers, Blanchard rotary surface grinders, and the MT³ and VBG vertical grinders; it also remanufactures Fellows gear shapers and Blanchard grinders. The company holds the original-manufacturer rights to a number of American machine tool lines, among them Barber-Colman, Fellows, Blanchard, Springfield, DeVlieg, Bullard and Motch.

Breton

Brother

Brother Industries is a Japanese multinational known in the CNC world for compact, high-speed machining centers and tapping centers. Brother CNC machines are prized for their rapid tool change times (often under 1 second), exceptional acceleration, and small footprint — making them dominant in high-volume production of small precision parts across automotive, electronics, and medical industries.

Burkhardt+Weber

Precision machining centers and boring mills for aerospace and automotive

Bystronic

Swiss manufacturer of laser cutting systems, press brakes, and automation solutions for sheet metal processing.

CHMER

CHMER is a Taiwanese manufacturer of CNC EDM machines including wire EDM and sinker EDM systems, established in 1975 and now one of the world largest EDM producers by volume, distributed globally as value-performance alternatives.

CMS Industrie Macchine

CNC machining centers for composite, wood, aluminum, and stone

CNT Motion Systems

CNT Motion Systems of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania has built CNC routers since 1990. Its two base machines are the servo-driven CNT-1000 and CNT-950, and from them it builds application-specific machines for curtain wall and aluminium extrusion work, ACM panels, stair stringers, fence components, stone and other custom jobs, all run from a Windows PC with WinCNC.

Campbell Grinder

Campbell Grinder Company was incorporated in 1969 in Muskegon, Michigan by Hugh Campbell and today builds CNC grinding machines in Spring Lake, Michigan. Its lines are the 1000C, 1000 LEAN and 750 vertical cylindrical grinders, the 800 series 3-axis creep feed grinders, the 930 series 5-axis vertical creep feed grinders and custom machines such as the CRG4000 horizontal cylindrical grinder, mostly engineered to the customer's part.

Campro

Campro Precision Machinery Co., Ltd. is a CNC machine tool builder headquartered in Taichung, Taiwan; CAMPRO is its primary brand. Its range covers vertical, horizontal and double column machining centers, trunnion and traveling column 5-axis machining centers, and slant-bed CNC lathes with live-tool, Y-axis and sub-spindle versions. The company also supplies gantry robot automation and its own production monitoring software.

Chevalier Machinery

Surface grinders, VMCs, and EDM machines for precision manufacturing

Chiron

German manufacturer of high-speed 5-axis machining centers and turnkey manufacturing solutions for aerospace and automotive production.

Cincinnati Incorporated

Cincinnati Incorporated, founded in the late 1890s as The Cincinnati Shaper Company, is a build-to-order maker of metal fabrication equipment with its plant and headquarters in Harrison, Ohio, near Cincinnati. Its current range covers fiber laser cutting systems (CI FiberMax, CI Fiber, CL-900), press brakes (XFORM hydraulic and XFORMe hybrid, Xi, the electric GOFORM, and Proform and Autoform large brakes from 400 to 2,000 tons), shears, powder metal presses, automation and its own software. The company builds its own linear motors, controls and software and sells direct in the United States.

Citizen Machinery

Japanese manufacturer of Swiss-type automatic CNC lathes for precision turned parts in medical, automotive, and electronics industries.

Colchester

Colchester Machine Tool Solutions is the UK company behind the Colchester and Harrison lathe brands and Pratt Burnerd International workholding. Its CNC range covers Tornado slant-bed turning centres, Harrison Alpha CNC/manual combination lathes, Multiturn and Magnum HD flat-bed CNC lathes, Storm vertical machining centres and CNC bed and turret mills. The company traces its origin to The Colchester Lathe Company, founded in 1887, took its present name in 2018 and has been part of the InCompass Group since 2022.

Colibrium Additive

Colibrium Additive, a GE Aerospace company, is the metal additive manufacturing business formerly known as GE Additive. It builds the Concept Laser-derived M2 Series 5, M Line, X Line 2000R and Mlab laser powder-bed systems and the Arcam EBM Spectra and Q10plus electron-beam machines; the GE Additive and Concept Laser pages on this site are filed here.

DATRON

DATRON AG is a publicly traded German manufacturer of high-speed CNC milling machines, dosing (dispensing) systems and milling tools, headquartered since July 2025 in a new corporate complex in Ober-Ramstadt, Hesse, where around 290 employees develop and build the products. Its milling range covers compact gantry-type high-speed machines from the neo family through the M8Cube, MLCube, MLCube Pro and MLmax Pro sheet-format machines up to the MXCube, all running the company's own touch-based DATRON next control. The machines are aimed at high-speed machining of aluminium, other non-ferrous metals, plastics and composites with small tools and minimum-quantity lubrication.

DMG Mori

Formed from the merger of German Gildemeister and Japanese Mori Seiki. Offers the broadest product range in the industry including turning, milling, 5-axis, ultrasonic, and additive manufacturing.

DMS

Diversified Machine Systems (DMS) designs and builds 3-axis and 5-axis CNC routers and large-format machining solutions in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where all engineering, steel fabrication and machine assembly take place. Its range covers the configurable 3-axis and 5-axis lines (Bryce3, Teton3, Redwood3, Glacier5, Mammoth5, Yellowstone5 and others), the smaller Freedom routers and the Hybrid machines that combine wire deposition with machining. The machines use stress-relieved steel frames fabricated in-house and serve aerospace, automotive, marine, pattern making, formed plastics and woodworking customers.

DN Solutions

Formerly Doosan Machine Tools, DN Solutions manufactures CNC lathes, machining centers, and multi-tasking machines.

Dainichi

Dainichi Kinzoku Kogyo is a Japanese lathe specialist headquartered in Amagasaki, Hyogo, with its main plant in Tarui, Gifu, and a US subsidiary, Dainichi Machinery, in Carol Stream, Illinois. It builds large flat-bed lathes: the DL series of CNC precision lathes, which keep conventional handwheels alongside a FANUC control and Dainichi's own conversational software, the heavy DL/TL132-152 and W16L machines, and the MG, M, DR and W lines of CNC lathes. The company also carries out overhauls and retrofits of existing machines.

Danobat

CNC grinding machines and turning centers for automotive and aerospace

Davenport Machine

American manufacturer of multi-spindle automatic screw machines since 1895

Dener

Dener Makina was founded in 1974 in Kayseri, Turkey, and has focused on CNC sheet metal machinery since 2000. It builds hydraulic, servo-electric and ball screw press brakes, guillotine shears, and fiber laser cutting machines for sheet and tube. The company also lists double column, vertical and 5-axis machining centers and CNC lathes under the Dener name.

Desktop Metal

Metal and composite additive manufacturing systems

Doosan Machine Tools

Doosan Machine Tools was renamed DN Solutions in 2022. This page keeps the models catalogued under the Doosan name (VMCs, HMCs, CNC lathes, 5-axis machining centres); the current lineup is listed under DN Solutions.

Drake

Drake Manufacturing, established in 1972 and headquartered in Warren, Ohio, builds precision CNC thread grinders and supplies them as turn-key machines programmed for the customer's parts. Its GS range covers external (GS:TE) and internal (GS:TI) thread grinders, dual spindle grinders (GS:DS) and the GS:CG crown grinder for tapered roller bearing drums, alongside rack mills and vertical thread mills. The machines are used for ball screws and nuts, worms, taps, thread gages, rolling dies and steering components.

Durma

Durma is the brand under which Durmazlar Makina of Turkey sells its sheet metal working machines: press brakes, fiber laser cutting machines, turret punch presses, plasma cutting machines, bending centers, shears and plate rolls. The company states that it works from three production plants with a total of 150,000 m2 and about 1,000 employees, and that it develops its machines in its own R&D centre. Its press brake range runs from the basic PBF and the AD-S hydraulic series to AD-Servo hybrid and AD-ES and AD-EB electric machines.

ELB-Schliff

CNC surface and profile grinding machines for precision manufacturing

EMAG

German manufacturer of CNC vertical turning machines, grinding machines, and production systems for chucked parts.

EOS

German manufacturer of precision metal 3D printing systems using direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) for aerospace, medical, and industrial applications.

ESAB

CNC plasma cutting systems for industrial fabrication and shipbuilding

EUROMAC

EUROMAC is an Italian manufacturer of CNC sheet metal working machinery including compact punch presses, notching machines, and bending systems for small-to-medium fabrication shops.

Ecoca

Ecoca is a lathe builder based in the Houli district of Taichung, Taiwan. It began with conventional high speed lathes, started developing and producing CNC lathes in 1988, and added a machining center line in June 2009. Its current CNC range covers the MT, SL and SJ slant-bed turning centers, the EL flat bed CNC lathes and the VB and VL vertical machining centers.

Emco Group

CNC lathes, milling machines, and training machines for education and production

Enshu

Enshu Limited is a Japanese manufacturer of high-speed horizontal machining centers for automotive and production machining, founded in 1920. Based in Hamamatsu, Enshu builds standalone and production-line HMCs optimized for high-volume manufacturing.

Ermak

Esprit Automation

UK specialist in CNC plasma and oxy-fuel cutting machines for structural steel processing

Eurotech

Swiss-type lathes and mill-turn centers for precision turned components

Euroturn

Excetek

Excetek Technologies is an EDM builder established in 2006 in Taichung, Taiwan. It makes wire-cut EDMs (the linear motor NP series, the G Plus series and the large V series up to 2,000 mm of X travel), CNC and ZNC die sinking EDMs in the ED series, and EDM hole drilling machines. The company states ISO 9001 certification and CE conformity for its machines and also builds customized wire EDMs.

FANUC

Japanese multinational and world leader in CNC controls, industrial robots, and the ROBODRILL line of high-speed compact machining centers. FANUC controls power an estimated 65% of all CNC machines worldwide.

FERMAT

Horizontal boring mills and machining centers for large part manufacturing

Fadal

Fadal is an American, family-owned builder of CNC vertical machining centers based in West Chicago, Illinois, selling through dealers in the United States and Canada. Its current lineup runs from the BT-30 VMC 2015HS through 40 and 50 taper roller way and box way VMCs up to the VMC 8032/50T, plus the VM5ax320 5-axis trunnion machine, with Fadal's own controller, which is backward compatible with the older 88HS and MP controls. The company's site dates the Fadal name to 1973; machine production stopped in 2009, resumed in 2014 under Merrill Technology Group, and Fadal was acquired in 2024 by Alwin Machinery Sales.

Farsoon

Farsoon Technologies, founded in Changsha, China in 2009, builds industrial polymer and metal laser powder bed fusion systems with an open-parameter philosophy. Its FS metal line runs from the compact single-laser FS191M to the 32-laser FS1521M, alongside Flight polymer systems, with subsidiaries in Germany and the United States.

Feeler

FEELER is the CNC machine tool brand of Fair Friend Enterprise Co., Ltd., the founding company of the machine tool division of FFG (Fair Friend Group), based in Taichung, Taiwan. Founded in 1985, it launched Taiwan's first moving-column vertical machining center in 1986. The range covers vertical and horizontal machining centers, 5-axis machining centers, double-column and gantry machines, horizontal boring and milling machines and CNC lathes.

Fehlmann

Fehlmann AG is a family-owned Swiss maker of precision machine tools for milling and drilling, founded in 1930. Development, production and assembly are carried out at its works in Seon, Switzerland. The range runs from the manual PICOMAX drilling and milling machines through the combined manual and CNC PICOMAX 56 to the PICOMAX machining centers and the VERSA portal machining centers for 3-axis and 5-axis work.

Fellows Corporation

Fellows Corporation is an American manufacturer of gear shaping machines and gear cutting equipment, specializing in internal and external gear production for automotive, aerospace, and industrial applications.

Fidia

5-axis machining centers and CNC controls for mold and die manufacturing

Flex Machine Tools

Flex Machine Tools is a veteran-owned US builder based in Wapakoneta, Ohio, making FlexJet abrasive waterjets, FlexCNC long-bed and gantry vertical machining centers, drilling and tapping centers, beam lines and FlexArm tapping arms. In July 2026 it acquired TARUS, a Detroit-area machine tool manufacturer, expanding its US-built machine range.

Flow International

American manufacturer of ultra-high-pressure waterjet cutting systems for precision cutting of virtually any material including metals, composites, stone, and glass.

Flow International

Flow International Corporation is the world leader in ultra-high-pressure waterjet cutting technology, pioneering 90,000 PSI waterjet systems and the Dynamic Waterjet cutting head used in aerospace and defense manufacturing.

Fooke

Gantry machining centers for aerospace structural components

Forest-Line

Gantry and floor-type HMCs for large aerospace and defense components

Fryer

Fryer Machine Systems, Inc. is a family-owned American machine tool builder founded in 1982 and based in Patterson, New York, where it designs and assembles its machines. Its lineup of over 50 models covers toolroom bed mills and lathes that run in manual, semi-automatic or full CNC mode, box way and linear way vertical machining centers, horizontal machining centers and boring mills, traveling column machines, 5-axis machining centers, slant bed lathes and vertical turret lathes. Most models are offered with a Fryer / Siemens control, with Fanuc as an alternative, and Fryer also builds customized machines from its standard components.

GF Machining Solutions (now United Machining)

Swiss maker of Mikron milling, AgieCharmilles wire and die-sinking EDM, Liechti aerospace milling, laser texturing and Step-Tec spindles. In 2026 GF Machining Solutions merged with United Grinding into United Machining Solutions (ums.swiss); its machine lines are now sold by the UNITED MACHINING division (machining.com) under the Mikron Mill, Agie Charmilles, Charmilles, Liechti and Step-Tec brands. Pages here keep the GF-era names.

Ganesh

Ganesh machines are sold by Expand Machinery of Chatsworth, California, the company formerly known as Ganesh Machinery, whose history the firm dates to 1985; Expand Machinery acquired the GEN MILL, GEN TURN and GANESH product lines in 2019. The range covers GEN TURN multi-axis lathes (gang-tool, CNC Swiss and twin-spindle turn-mill machines), GEN MILL 3-axis and 5-axis vertical machining centers, and GANESH heavy-duty manual and CNC lathes and mills. The company states that its machines are manufactured in ISO-9001 facilities in Japan or Taiwan.

Geminis

Geminis Lathes builds heavy CNC lathes at its plant in Elgoibar, Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country of Spain, drawing on more than 60 years of lathe making. Its lineup covers the GTi horizontal lathes for parts up to 150 tonnes, the GMi multiprocess mill-turn lathes for machining large parts in one setup, and dedicated railway lathes for axles, wheel hubs and wheelsets. The company machines its own critical components in-house, including grinding bed guides up to 20 m long, and is certified to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 14006 eco-design.

Gleason

American manufacturer of gear production machinery including hobbing, shaping, grinding, and metrology systems.

Glebar

Glebar builds centerless grinders, micro and guidewire grinders, centerless form grinders, a double disc grinder and OD grinders, with design and manufacturing in New Jersey. The company was founded in 1952 by Miner Gleason and Robert Barhorst in Ramsey, New Jersey, to make machine tools based on centerless grinding. Since acquiring Tridex Technology and Everite Machine Products in 2020 it also sells electrochemical (ECG) grinding and cutoff machines under the Tridex name.

Goodway

GOODWAY Machine Corp. is a Taiwanese builder of CNC lathes, established in 1975, with operations in Taichung, Chiayi, Los Angeles and Suzhou. Its range covers horizontal, vertical, multi-axis and Swiss-type turning centers as well as cylindrical grinding machines. The company states that its machines are developed and manufactured in-house, including the turrets, spindles and tailstocks.

Grob

GROB-WERKE is a German family-owned manufacturer of advanced machining centers and production systems, founded in 1926. Based in Mindelheim, Germany, GROB specializes in 4-axis and 5-axis horizontal machining centers used heavily in automotive powertrain production. They also produce assembly and automation systems for EV battery manufacturing.

Gurutzpe

Gurutzpe designs and builds heavy-duty CNC horizontal lathes and multitask turnmills for large rotating parts, with a range that covers pieces up to Ø4 m and 200 t. The lineup comprises the GL flat-bed lathes with hydrodynamic guiding, the GH lathes with hydrostatic guiding and the GSM slant-bed turnmills with a milling-boring column. The company dates its origins to 1957 and is part of the INZU Group.

HNK

HNK Machine Tool Co., Ltd. builds large CNC machine tools at its head office and factory in Haman-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, and describes itself as a pioneer of large-sized machine tools in Korea, founded in March 1960. Its catalogue covers NT and VTC vertical turning lathes with tables up to 10,000 mm, HB table-type and HFB floor-type horizontal boring machines, HPM and HPF double column machining centers, HL heavy horizontal lathes, and HGG and HGH gear grinding and hobbing machines. It also lists special-purpose machines for aerospace structures and marine crankshafts.

HOLZ-HER

HOLZ-HER GmbH of Nürtingen, Germany, builds machines for panel and wood processing: CNC machining centres (the EPICON 5-axis and PRO-MASTER series), DYNESTIC nesting machines and EVOLUTION vertical machining centres, alongside edgebanders, beam saws and vertical panel saws. The company dates its founding to 1914, built its first CNC machining centres in 1993 and has been part of the WEINIG Group since 2010.

HOMAG

World's largest woodworking machinery manufacturer — CNC routing centers, edge banding, and complete furniture production automation

HP

HP Inc. metal and polymer additive manufacturing systems

HSG Laser

HSG Laser, founded in 2006 and headquartered in Foshan, China, builds fiber laser cutting machines for sheet, tube and structural profiles, together with press brakes, laser welders and loading automation. Its tube range runs from small-tube machines to four-chuck machines for pipe up to 660 mm, and its sheet range reaches large-format beds and 60 kW sources. The company states that it has four manufacturing bases, a research and development centre in Japan and regional headquarters in Germany and the United States.

Haas Automation

American CNC machine tool builder known for affordable, reliable VMCs, HMCs, lathes, and rotary tables. One of the few manufacturers to publicly list machine prices.

Haco

Haco is a Belgian manufacturer of sheet metal fabrication machines including CNC press brakes, guillotine shears, and punch presses for industrial metalworking and fabrication applications.

Hans Laser

Chinese laser cutting and marking machine manufacturer

Hanwha Precision Machinery

South Korean manufacturer producing CNC turning centers, vertical and horizontal machining centers, and multi-axis machines.

Hardinge

American manufacturer of precision CNC lathes, grinders, and workholding. Known for the CONQUEST turning center series and Super-Precision collet chucks.

Hartford

Hartford is the machine tool brand of She Hong Industrial Co., Ltd., a Taiwanese builder based in Taichung that states it was founded in 1965 and makes its machines in Taiwan. The range runs from 30- and 40-taper vertical machining centers (SMC, LG, MVP, S PLUS, PRO, HCMC) and HMC horizontal machining centers to PBM boring mills, 5A and 5BC 5-axis machines, and large double-column, moving-crossbeam and gantry machines (SW, HSA, MW, MCW, Aero). Hartford builds its own spindles and offers its own Hartrol Premium control.

Heckert

Horizontal machining centers for automotive and aerospace production

Hedelius

HEDELIUS Maschinenfabrik of Meppen, Germany, has developed and produced CNC machining centres since 1967, for single parts and small to medium series in machine, vehicle and tool construction. Its range consists of three lines: ACURA 5-axis machines with a rotating/swivelling table, TILTENTA 4-/5-axis travelling column machines with a swivelling main spindle and integrated NC rotary table, and FORTE 3-axis travelling column machines with fixed tables up to 6,200 mm of X travel. The company also supplies its own MARATHON pallet automation for these machines.

Heller

German manufacturer of CNC machining centers and milling-turning centers for 4-axis and 5-axis metalcutting, focused on automotive and aerospace production.

Hendrick

Hendrick Manufacturing builds panel saws and CNC routers for sheet materials. Its range covers vertical panel and beam saws, horizontal panel saws and 3-axis and 5-axis CNC routers, sold to plastics, wood, non-ferrous metal, composite, corrugated and aerospace users. The company dates its panel saw to 1952.

Hermle

German manufacturer specializing in premium 5-axis machining centers for precision mold, die, and aerospace applications. Known for exceptional surface finish quality and mineral-cast machine beds.

Hitachi Seiki

Honor Seiki

Honor Seiki Co., Ltd. is a Taiwanese builder of CNC vertical lathes and vertical turning centers, founded in 1987 and based in Kaohsiung. Its range runs from 12 in chuck High Speed models through box way Heavy Duty machines to Large vertical lathes with turning diameters up to 7,000 mm, plus twin-spindle models and the PL series with a gantry-type Y axis. The company names aerospace, automotive, railway, mining, oil and gas and wind energy as its main application fields.

Hurco

American manufacturer known for the WinMax conversational CNC control. Produces VMCs, 5-axis machining centers, and turning centers popular in job shops.

Huron

Huron Graffenstaden builds machining centres in Alsace, France, close to Strasbourg, and presents itself as a French constructor of machining centres since 1857. Its own lines are 3- and 5-axis milling machines: the VX and PX vertical centres, the KX, K2X and NX portal machines, the MX universal-head and mill-turn centres, and the KXG gantries. The company's site also lists GU 5-axis gantry centres, DX and AX turning centres and MTX multi-tasking machines.

Hwacheon

South Korean manufacturer of CNC lathes and machining centers known for the Hi-TECH turning center series and the VESTA vertical machining center line.

Hydromat

Rotary transfer machine manufacturer

Hypertherm

Plasma cutting power supplies and CNC plasma cutting systems

Hyundai WIA

South Korean manufacturer of CNC turning centers, machining centers, and multi-axis machines. Known for value-oriented industrial machine tools.

INDEX-Traub

German manufacturer of precision CNC multi-spindle automatic lathes and turn-mill centers for high-volume production.

IPG Photonics

Fiber laser source and laser system manufacturer

ITM

ITM (International Tool Machines) was established in 1981 in Westport, Connecticut by Karl H. Giebmanns and moved its design and manufacturing to Palm Coast, Florida in 1992. It builds CNC production grinders for cutting tool makers: the UFG, UFGG and UFTG flute grinders, the PPG and FPG peel grinders, the UODG chamfer grinder and the RTG rotary transfer grinder, along with coolant filtration systems.

Ibarmia

IBARMIA Innovatek builds moving-column, universal and portal 5-axis machining centres at its production centre in Azkoitia (Gipuzkoa), Spain, with a second plant in Shandong, China for the local market. Its range covers the Z Series moving-column machines, T Series and P Series universal 5-axis and multiprocess (turning and milling) centres, and C Series turning and drilling centres for large rings up to ø8,500 mm. The company began building drilling machines in 1953 and introduced its first moving-column machining centre in 1986.

Industrial CNC

Industrial CNC builds the Pro Series of three-axis CNC routers on welded steel frames, in five table sizes from a 2 x 3 ft small-format machine to a 6 x 12 ft table. Every model shares a dual-driven gantry, a liquid-cooled high-frequency spindle and a Windows PC control; vacuum hold-down, an automatic tool changer and a rotary axis are offered as accessories.

JTEKT (Toyoda)

Japanese manufacturer of precision grinding machines, gear machines, and machining centers (formerly Toyoda Machine Works).

Jainnher

Jainnher Machine Co., Ltd. is a grinding machine builder founded in 1982 in Taichung, Taiwan. It started with centerless grinders and has since added cylindrical, internal, center hole, double spindle, vertical and thread grinding machines, in manual, NC and CNC versions. Its CNC range runs from small internal and plunge grinders to roll grinders for rolls of up to 40,000 kg.

Jet Edge

Jingdiao

Beijing Jingdiao Group is a Beijing-based machine tool builder, founded in 1994, whose core product is the high-speed machining center for die and mold work and other high-precision parts. Its range covers 3-axis and 5-axis high-speed machining centers (JDHGT, JDGR and JDMR series), JDCT and JDLVM machining centers, a graphite machine and JDLVG machines for grinding glass and ceramics. The group also develops its own JD50 CNC system, high-speed spindles, direct-drive rotary tables and the SurfMill CAD/CAM software.

Jobs

Johnford

Johnford is the machine tool brand of Roundtop Machinery Industries Co., Ltd., a publicly listed builder in Taichung, Taiwan. Its range covers vertical machining centers (VMC, SV and JET series), fixed and sliding double column machining centers (DMC and SDMC series), horizontal and vertical turning centers (SL, ST, HT and VTC series), turn-mill machines, flat-bed heavy lathes and boring machining centers. The company also builds custom and special-purpose machines to order.

Juaristi

Juaristi is a Spanish manufacturer of CNC boring and milling machines for aerospace, railway, shipbuilding, and energy sectors, founded in 1941. Based in the Basque Country, Juaristi builds floor-type and table-type boring mills known for precision and durability.

Junker Group

Junker Group is a German manufacturer of high-speed CBN cylindrical grinding machines, founded in 1962. Based in Nordrach, Black Forest, Junker Quickpoint and JUMAT series machines are widely used in automotive, tooling, and precision component production.

KAAST

KAAST Machine Tools is a machine tool importer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a second showroom in Schiller Park near Chicago; the company says it was established in Germany in 2009 and in the United States in 2010. Its CNC mills, lathes and grinders are engineered and built in Taiwan, including the V-Mill and VF-Mill vertical machining centers, the V-Mill 5-axis machines, the A-Turn, F-Turn and U-Turn slant-bed lathes, V-Turn vertical lathes and CRG cylindrical grinders, while its saws, ironworkers and plate rolls come from Turkey.

KAPP NILES

German manufacturer of gear cutting machines, gear grinding machines, and automation systems for gear production.

KMT Waterjet

KRC

KRC Machine Tool Solutions, established in 1989 and based in Independence, Kentucky, builds custom and large-format CNC machines and also rebuilds, retrofits and services machine tools. Its own lines are the FUSION VI gantry composite machining centers, the Helix HMC 6-axis horizontal machining centers, the HBM Series of floor-type and table-type horizontal boring mills and the Velocity VTC vertical turning lathes.

Kao Ming

Kao Ming Machinery Industrial Co., Ltd. is a Taichung, Taiwan builder that started out making radial arm drilling machines and grew into a specialist in double-column (bridge and gantry) machining centers, with a plant in the Central Taiwan Science Park. Its KMC range covers box-way and linear-guide bridge mills (SV, SD, SR, HIS, DV), multi-face and 5-axis-type double-column machines with automatic head changers, gantry machines, and KMC-V vertical machining centers, sold through locations in Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Kent CNC

Kent CNC is the CNC machine line of Kent Industrial USA, a machine tool company founded in 1979 that began with surface grinders and now sells CNC milling, turning, grinding and EDM equipment. Its range covers Fanuc-controlled KVR vertical machining centers, CNC bed mills and knee mills with Acu-Rite or Fanuc controls, CNC precision and economy lathes, NC cylindrical grinders, and wire and sinker EDMs. Kent stocks machines and parts for quick delivery, runs its own service department, and sells abroad through distributors in countries including Mexico, Costa Rica, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Kern Microtechnik

Kern Microtechnik is a German manufacturer of ultra-precision 5-axis machining centers with sub-micron accuracy, founded in 1962. Based in Eschenlohe, Bavaria, Kern builds machines for watchmaking, medical devices, aerospace, and semiconductor tooling where tolerances below one micron are required.

Kinetic

Kinetic Cutting Systems builds gantry plate-processing machines that combine plasma and oxy-fuel cutting with drilling, tapping and milling spindles, sold as the K2500 through K5600, and has added a large-format plate laser and the K6000 plasma, laser and machining system. The company says it started in New Zealand in 1993 and today serves the Northern hemisphere from its United States office and the Southern hemisphere from its New Zealand office.

Kitamura Machinery

Japanese manufacturer of compact CNC milling machines and machining centers known for high rigidity and precision (Mycenter series).

Kiwa

Kiwa Machinery is a Japanese machine tool builder headquartered in Nabari, Mie, whose family business began in 1869 making agricultural machinery and moved into lathes in 1933, vertical machining centres in 1980 and horizontal machining centres in 1996. Its current range centres on the KH series of 40- and 50-taper horizontal machining centres and the column-traverse Triple H40, alongside vertical machining centres and special machines for glass and ceramic cutting. Kiwa has a manufacturing and support base in Shanghai and support bases in the USA (Kiwa USA, within Methods Machine Tools) and Thailand.

Kjellberg

German plasma cutting equipment manufacturer, inventor of plasma arc cutting

Klingelnberg

CNC bevel gear cutting and grinding machines for automotive and aerospace

Koike Aronson

CNC plasma and flame cutting systems for structural fabrication

Komo

Komo Machine, Inc. designs and builds CNC routers and machining centers and is headquartered in Lakewood, New Jersey, as a subsidiary of PMC Global Inc. The company was started in 1966 in St. Cloud, Minnesota, by William Koska and George Molus, introduced large-bed CNC machining centers for metalworking in 1984 and then moved into high-speed routers for wood and plastics. Its current lines are the Xtreme, Fusion, Mach III and Solution routers and the VGM gantry machining center, all on FANUC controls.

Kuraki

Kuraki Co., Ltd. is a Japanese manufacturer of CNC horizontal boring mills known for exceptional accuracy and rigidity in heavy-duty machining applications. Founded in 1938, Kuraki boring mills serve aerospace, energy, and heavy equipment manufacturing.

LICO

LICO Machinery Co., Ltd. is a Taiwanese lathe builder based in Taichung. It began with cam-operated single-spindle automatic lathes and moved into CNC with a multi-slide automatic bar machine, and its current range covers LNT and LNA multi-slide CNC automatics, LND turret-type turn-mill lathes and LNC automatic turning centers for bar work.

LVD

Belgian manufacturer of laser cutting systems, press brakes, and sheet metalworking automation solutions.

Leadwell

Vertical machining centers and CNC lathes for general machining

LiCON

LiCON mt builds single-, twin- and four-spindle CNC horizontal machining centers for series machining of complex workpieces, from single machines to fully automated production lines, at its headquarters in Laupheim near Ulm, Germany. Its LiFLEX I, II and IV ranges and the large-part LiFLEX GigaLine use in-house motor spindles and LiCON's i- and i³-Technology for independent spindle correction. The machine-tool business traces back to the Lindenmaier company and has traded as LiCON since 2004; in 2026 it became part of the MODIG group alongside IBARMIA.

Liebherr

German conglomerate manufacturing gear cutting and gear grinding machines alongside heavy construction and mining equipment.

Lincoln Electric

CNC plasma cutting tables and systems for metal fabrication

Litz

Litz Hitech Corp. is a Taiwanese machine tool builder based in Taichung, with a second plant, Litz Precision Machinery (Jiaxing), in Zhejiang, China. It builds vertical and horizontal machining centers, five-axis machines, drilling and tapping centers, CNC lathes and boring machines, along with graphite and grinding variants. The lineup runs from the DV, MV, VC and VH verticals to the twin-pallet LH and MH horizontals, and the company also manufactures on an OEM and ODM basis.

MCM

MCM (Machining Centers Manufacturing S.p.A.) builds horizontal machining centers and flexible manufacturing systems at two production sites in the Piacenza district of Italy. Its current machine lines are the CLOCK EVO, TANK EVO and TANK.G horizontal machining centers, offered in 4-axis, 5-axis and multitasking versions, and the large JET FIVE 5-axis machines. The company supplies anything from a single machining center to a complete FMS with its own supervision software, and has subsidiaries in France, Germany, Spain, the USA and China.

Machitech

CNC plasma and waterjet cutting tables for metalworking fabrication

Magerle

CNC profile grinding machines for aerospace turbine components

Makino

Premium Japanese manufacturer specializing in high-precision horizontal machining centers, 5-axis machines, EDM, and grinding. Known for aerospace and die/mold applications.

Markforged

Industrial additive manufacturing systems for metal and composite parts

Masterwood

Italian manufacturer of CNC machining centers for furniture and wood components

Matec

MATEC, based in Hochdorf near Stuttgart, builds CNC travelling column machining centres, mill-turn centres, gantry machines and special solutions, and its site says it has done so since 1992. The current site lists a standard series (VMC vertical machining centres and FUV 5-axis machines) and a modular family of 5-axis gantry machining centres with moving table, pallet changer, stationary table and floor-running layouts. The site names the company as MATEC Service GmbH.

Matsuura Machinery

Japanese manufacturer of high-performance multi-axis machining centers known for automation-ready designs and pallet systems.

Messer Cutting Systems

Global manufacturer of plasma, laser, and oxy-fuel cutting systems for heavy fabrication and shipbuilding

Mikrosa

CNC centerless grinding machines, part of United Grinding Group

Miller Electric

American welding and plasma cutting equipment manufacturer, subsidiary of Illinois Tool Works

Milltronics

Milltronics USA builds CNC vertical machining centers, #50-taper XP and inline-spindle IL performance mills, BR-series bridge mills, 5-axis VM-5X machines, TRM tool room mills, VK knee mills and SL slant-bed and TRL combination lathes, all running its own 9000-series and INSPIRE controls. The company started in Minnesota as a machine-tool control builder before launching its own machines, and its about page cites more than 50 years in business and over 14,000 machines installed. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana as a member of the Hurco Companies Machine Tool Group, with a European sales and service operation in Amsterdam.

Mitsubishi Electric

One of the world's largest manufacturers of electric discharge machines (EDM), laser cutting systems, and additive manufacturing equipment.

Mitsui Seiki

Mitsui Seiki is a Japanese manufacturer of ultra-precision jig borers, jig grinders, and 5-axis machining centers, founded in 1928. Based in Tokyo, Mitsui Seiki machines serve aerospace, defense, and die/mold applications requiring the highest accuracy levels.

Modig

Modig Machine Tool is a family-owned Swedish builder of high-speed horizontal, vertical, inverted and 5-axis machining centers, founded in 1947 by the four Modig brothers in Virserum and now headquartered in Kalmar, with a US base in Wichita, Kansas. Its machines target aerospace aluminium, titanium and composite parts, extrusions and automotive components, through lines such as the HHV bar and extrusion machines, RigiMill gantries, MHM horizontals and IM inverted machining centers. Modig says it introduced the first high-speed machining center in 1987 and has sold more than 11,000 machines.

Momentum

Momentum builds heavy-duty CNC turning machines: the MVL series of ram-type vertical turning lathes, with 2-axis and milling (-iM, -M) versions from 1,100 mm to 2,500 mm swing, and the MLC, MLD and MFA flatbed lathes developed with CNC Takang. The American-owned company (Momentum North America, Houston, Texas) runs product management, electrical design and PLC programming in the U.S., with VTLs assembled at its own plant in Taichung, Taiwan and flatbeds at neighbouring partner CNC Takang. Select Machining Technologies of Windsor, Connecticut is its exclusive U.S. importer.

Monforts

Monforts Werkzeugmaschinen builds CNC lathes and turn-mill centres in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Its machines run the Z-axis on a hydrostatic guide, a design the company introduced in 1976, and the range covers the RNC, DNC and MNC slant-bed lathes, the UniCen turn-mill centre with B-axis and the KNC cycle-controlled lathes. The company dates its origin to 1884, when August Monforts founded a textile machinery factory, and its machine tool business to 1915.

Morbidelli

Morbidelli is an Italian brand within SCM Group producing CNC machining centers for furniture, door, window, and architectural millwork production, including 5-axis pod-and-rail machining centers under the Author series.

MultiCam

CNC routers and plasma cutters for woodworking and fabrication

Murata Machinery

Swiss-type lathes and CNC turning centers for precision manufacturing

Murata Wiedemann

NEW CNC

NEW CNC of Holland, Michigan was established in 2008 and supplies CNC machinery for panel processing, woodworking and plastics under its own name. Its Talent T5 nesting routers are sold alongside Fuse edgebanders, boring machines, beam saws and dust collectors, with automatic loading, unloading and labelling offered as add-on automation.

Nagel

CNC honing machines for engine cylinder bores and hydraulic components

Nakamura-Tome

Japanese manufacturer of precision CNC lathes and multi-axis turning centers known for the Super NTY and WT series.

New Britain Machine

New Britain Machine is an American manufacturer of multi-spindle automatic screw machines and bar automatics, long used in high-volume production machining.

Nexturn

Nicolas Correa

Nicolas Correa S.A. is a Spanish manufacturer of large bed-type, bridge-type, and gantry milling machines, founded in 1947. Based in Burgos, Spain, known for robust construction, 5-year warranty, and strong presence in European aerospace and die/mold industries.

Nidec Machine Tool

Nidec Machine Tool Corporation builds gear hobbing, gear shaping and gear grinding machines, large machining centres and precision components. It is the former Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool business, acquired by Nidec in 2021; the Nidec group also owns Nidec OKK, Takisawa Machine Tool and PAMA.

Niigata

Niigata Machine Techno Co., Ltd. builds horizontal machining centers in Niigata City, Japan. The company was established in 2003, taking over the machine tool technology of Niigata Iron Works, whose origins go back to an ironworks set up in 1895. Its range covers the box-way HN series, the BOX in BOX N series, 5-axis trunnion models (HN-5X) and horizontals with bar spindles or facing heads (HN-BAR, HN-FC, BFN).

Niles-Simmons

Niles-Simmons Industrieanlagen GmbH is a German manufacturer of large CNC turning-boring-milling centers for complete machining of heavy rotationally symmetric parts including crankshafts, railway axles, and turbine rotors.

Nomura DS

Swiss-type CNC lathes for precision small-diameter turned parts

Northwood

Northwood Machine is a U.S. builder of CNC routers and gantry machining centers for wood, plastics, composites, aerospace and stone fabrication. It started in 1988 industrializing manual woodworking equipment, built its first CNC machine in 1991 and launched its first stone router in 2003. Its current lines are the Iron Horse moving table and fixed table machines, the Ironside traveling gantry routers, and the Navigator, Maverick and Raptor machines for stone, all on FANUC controls.

OKK Corporation

OKK Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of heavy-duty vertical and horizontal machining centers, founded in 1915. Known for exceptional rigidity in cutting difficult materials like Inconel and titanium, OKK machines are distributed by Methods Machine Tools in North America.

OMAX

American manufacturer of abrasive waterjet cutting systems for precision cutting of metals, composites, stone, and glass.

ONA Electroerosion

ONA Electroerosion is a Spanish EDM specialist with over 70 years of experience manufacturing both wire and sinker EDM machines. Based in the Basque Country, ONA serves aerospace, automotive, and die/mold industries worldwide.

OPS Ingersoll

OPS-INGERSOLL Funkenerosion GmbH designs and builds die-sinking EDM machines and high-speed milling centers in Burbach, Germany, mainly for tool and mould making. Its EDM range runs from the EAGLE G5 Precision and the EAGLE G50 and G80 Competition to the GANTRY EAGLE series, all on a gantry frame with a rise-and-fall work tank; the HIGH SPEED EAGLE V-Line covers 3- and 5-axis HSC milling. The company also supplies its own MultiChange handling systems for electrodes, pallets and tools.

Okamoto

Precision CNC surface, cylindrical, and profile grinding machines

Okuma

Japanese manufacturer known for building their own CNC controls (OSP). Produces lathes, machining centers, grinders, and multitasking machines with exceptional thermal stability.

Onsrud

CNC router systems for composite, aluminum, and wood machining

Oscar EDM

Oscar E.D.M. Company (OSCARMAX), based in Taichung, Taiwan, has designed and built electrical discharge machines since 1985. Its range covers the ZX, NX and multi-axis EX die sinker EDM series, including twin-head large models, plus EXD and SD ZNC Plus small-hole drilling EDMs, and it describes itself as the leading OEM manufacturer of EDMs in Taiwan and Korea.

PAMA

PAMA S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of large floor-type and table-type CNC boring and milling machines, founded in 1926. Based in Rovereto, PAMA builds Speedram and Speedmat series machines for energy, aerospace, and heavy industry worldwide.

Palmary

CNC surface, cylindrical, and centerless grinding machines

Parpas

Linear motor gantry machining centers for aerospace and mold applications

Peddinghaus

American manufacturer of CNC structural steel fabrication equipment including beam drill lines and plasma cutting systems

Penta Laser

Penta Laser builds fiber laser cutting machines for sheet, tube, structural sections and 3D formed parts, together with laser welding equipment. It began in 2007 as the Sino-Italian joint venture Wuhan Penta Chutian Laser Equipment and now has R&D and manufacturing bases in Wuhan, Wenzhou, Linyi, Xiangyang and Yangzhou, China. Its lines include the BOLT and SWING flat-bed machines, the WPB, WPC, WPL and NL tube cutters, the SEA HORSE and RHINO section cutters and the BOLT CUBE and GAN 3D 5-axis machines; Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable (YOFC) acquired the company in 2025.

Pfauter

German manufacturer of CNC gear hobbing machines, now part of the Reishauer Group

Pinnacle

Pinnacle Machine Tool Co., Ltd. builds machining centers and CNC lathes in Shengang District, Taichung, Taiwan. Its range covers the AX and BX 5-axis machines, DU and DV moving-column and double-column machines, the LV, SV and QV vertical machining centers, LH horizontal machining centers and L series turning centers. The company states it was established in 1976 as a maker of machine accessories and moved into milling machines in 1980.

Prima Power

Italian manufacturer of laser cutting, bending, punching, and combined sheet metal processing systems.

Pullmax

Pullmax is a Swedish manufacturer of sheet metal working machinery including turret punch presses, English wheels, planishing hammers, and multi-purpose sheet metal forming equipment.

Quaser

VMCs and HMCs for general precision machining

Quicktech

Quick-Tech Machinery Co., Ltd. builds CNC automatic lathes in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with a second office in Taichung. Its range covers the i-series gang-tooling turning and milling lathes for bar work, the T-series slant-bed turret lathes, the MiniMax sliding-headstock lathes and the S42 multi-tasking lathe with a B-axis tool spindle. The company says its machines are built to CE standards and are aimed at complicated small parts in high-volume bar production.

Quintax

5-axis CNC routers for composite and foam machining

Reiden

Reiden Technik AG builds 5-axis machining centers in Reiden, Switzerland, at a single production site. The company dates its foundation to 1904, when it made water turbines, and has built milling machines since 1948. The current range is the RX series (RX10, RX12, RX14, RX18), offered with pallet changers and, on most models, an optional turning function.

Reishauer

Reishauer AG is a Swiss manufacturer of continuous generating gear grinding machines, founded in 1788. Based in Wallisellen near Zurich, Reishauer is the gold standard for high-volume automotive gear production grinding.

Renishaw

British manufacturer of precision measurement systems, metal additive manufacturing (3D printing), and encoder systems for CNC machines.

Republic Lagun

Republic Lagun is the machine tool brand of Lagun Engineering in Harbor City, California, sold through two divisions, Republic Lagun Machine Tool Co. and Republic Lagun CNC; the company's site says it was established in California in 1968. Its CNC range covers UTC universal turning centers, American Turnmaster AT-G-TW-CNC gear head lathes, VBMA vertical bed mills, Millmatic CNC knee mills, a horizontal rise and fall mill and the VGC vertical grinding center, next to a large line of manual lathes, knee mills and drills. Lagun Engineering also represents Lagun Maher Holding, Giuseppe Giana and Bermaq in the United States, whose machines are not part of the Republic Lagun brand.

Resato International

Roeders

High-speed 5-axis machining centers with Granitan mineral casting base

Roku-Roku

Roku-Roku is a Japanese manufacturer of ultra-high-speed micro machining centers and graphite milling machines with spindle speeds up to 60,000 RPM. Specializing in electrode manufacturing, micro-milling, and precision die/mold work.

Rollomatic

Swiss manufacturer of precision CNC tool grinding machines for cutting tools, micro tools, and medical instruments.

Romi

Romi (ROMI S.A., formerly Industrias Romi) is a Brazilian machine builder based in Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo, which states that it started its activities in 1930. Its machine tool range covers flat-bed CNC lathes (C Series), slant-bed turning centers (GL and G Series), vertical turning lathes (VT and VTL), vertical machining centers (D Series), 5-axis machines (DCM 620) and horizontal machining centers (PH Series). The company also builds plastic injection and blow moulding machines and cast iron parts, and has sales subsidiaries in the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France and Spain.

Royal Master

Royal Master Grinders is a family-owned builder of centerless grinding systems in Oakland, New Jersey, in business since 1950. Its machines are based on the TG-12x4 and the wider TG-12x8 platforms, in thrufeed, Servo Cycle and Hi-Accuracy CNC versions, and it also builds guidewire, needle and endodontic file grinding systems for the medical and dental trades.

SCM Group

SCM Group

SCM Group is an Italian manufacturer of wood and advanced material processing machinery, producing CNC routers, panel saws, edge banders, and boring machines for furniture, door, and architectural millwork production.

SHW

SHW Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH of Aalen-Wasseralfingen, Germany, builds travelling column milling machines (PowerSpeed, UniForce), the PowerPortal portal machine and the compact UniSpeed machining centers for large-part machining. The company also develops and builds its own universal, fork and special milling heads, which it describes as the core of every machine. Its machines are used for large parts in machine and plant construction, large diesel engines, turbines and toolmaking.

SLM Solutions

German manufacturer of selective laser melting (SLM) metal additive manufacturing systems for aerospace, medical, and automotive applications. Now part of Nikon.

SMEC

SMEC (Samsung Machine Tools Engineering Company) is a South Korean manufacturer of CNC turning centers and machining centers, originating from Samsung Heavy Industries machine tools division in 1988. Known for cost-effective, reliable machines for production environments.

SNK

SNK (Shin Nippon Koki Co.) is a Japanese manufacturer of large-format 5-axis gantry and double-column machining centers for aerospace structural components, turbine blades, and heavy industry parts. Based in Osaka.

STAMA

German manufacturer of vertical machining centers and mill-turn systems

STM Waterjet

STM Waterjet GmbH builds CNC waterjet cutting systems at its headquarters in Eben im Pongau, Austria, with a sister company, STM Waterjet AG, in Reiden, Switzerland. The company traces its history to STM Stein-Moser GmbH, founded in 1974, and developed its first waterjet cutting system in 1992. Its range is a modular system of pure-water and abrasive machines: PremiumCut, ByJet, MasterCut, Cube, EcoCut and the MicroCut 4.0 micro waterjet, with 2D, TAC 12° taper-compensating and 3D five-axis cutting heads.

STV CNC

STV CNC (STVCNC Automation Solutions) designs and builds CNC plasma tables and CNC router tables at its headquarters in Las Vegas, Nevada. The plasma range runs from the modular SparX tables through the welded SparX PRO series to the servo-driven Optimum series, which uses the company's own Optimum CNC control.

SW

SW (Schwäbische Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH) builds single- and multi-spindle CNC machining centers with up to four spindles, and automates them as stand-alone cells and complete production lines. The company is headquartered in Waldmössingen in Germany's Black Forest and reports around 1,700 employees, with locations and plants in Germany, Europe, North America and Asia. Its lines include the BA series, the linear-drive BA W series, the single-spindle BA one machines, the large-format BA space machines and the BF series for die-cast, structural and long profile parts.

SYIL

SYIL CNC Machine Tools develops and manufactures compact CNC machine tools for small workshops and medium-sized manufacturers of metal parts: the X series vertical machining centers, the L series turning centers, the G series sliding-head lathes and the D6 cylindrical grinder. The machines are assembled in the company's own and OEM factories in the Ningbo area of China and are fitted with Siemens SINUMERIK controls. SYIL says it has grown from a single small shop in 2001 and now has offices in the USA, Germany, the Netherlands and China.

Salvagnini

Italian manufacturer of flexible sheet metal processing systems including panel benders, press brakes, and automated FMS lines.

Samputensili

CNC gear cutting and grinding machines for automotive drivetrain components

Samsung Machine Tools

Samsung machine tools division producing CNC lathes and machining centers

Schaublin

Precision CNC lathes and turning centers for watchmaking and medical industries

Schneeberger

Schneeberger Maschinen AG is a Swiss manufacturer of precision CNC tool and cutter grinding machines since 1923. Based in Roggwil, their Gemini and Aries series machines produce cutting tools, medical instruments, and precision components.

Schutte

Seibu

Seibu Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd. is based in Koga, Fukuoka, Japan, and runs three businesses: distribution equipment, valve and gate actuators, and precision machines. Its Precision Machine Division builds ultra-precision and high-precision wire EDMs in water and oil specifications and the SFG series of free-form grinding machines, which cut and grind in one chucking. The company states that it developed the world's first CNC wire cut EDM in 1972 and that it hand-scrapes ("kisage") the major mechanical components of its machines.

Sharp

Sharp Industries, Inc. is a U.S. machine tool company based in Torrance, California, that says it has been supplying machine tools since 1976. Its CNC range covers linear-way and box-way vertical machining centers, 5-axis trunnion machines, CNC bed and knee mills, flat bed CNC lathes and big bore hollow spindle lathes, alongside a broad line of manual mills, lathes, grinders, saws and drills. The company states that its products are built under an ISO 9001 certified design and management process with Meehanite castings.

Shibaura Machine

Japanese builder of horizontal boring mills (BTD/BTH), vertical lathes (TUE), portal and 5-axis machining centres, plus injection moulding and die casting machines. Formerly Toshiba Machine, renamed Shibaura Machine in 2020; the older Toshiba-branded pages on this site are filed here.

Shoda

Japanese manufacturer of CNC machining centers for wood, furniture, and composite materials

ShopBot

ShopBot Tools, Inc. designs and manufactures CNC routers in Durham, North Carolina, where the company says it was founded in 1996. Its full-size gantry tools share the PRS5 table design and come in two series, the closed-loop ShopBot Alpha and the entry-level ShopBot Carolina, each with a manual-change and an automatic tool changer version. The company also builds desktop CNC tools.

ShopSabre

ShopSabre CNC designs and builds CNC routers, CNC plasma tables, plasma tube cutters and fiber lasers in Lakeville, Minnesota. Its router range runs from the rack-and-pinion RC Series through the ball screw PRO and Industrial (IS) Series to the Mitsubishi-controlled IS-M and the automated IS-A, alongside the SideKick and ShopMaster plasma tables. The company says it introduced its first CNC router in 2002 and builds its welded steel machines in the USA.

Sodick

Japanese manufacturer of precision sinker and wire-cut EDM machines, injection molding machines, and metal 3D printers.

Soraluce

Spanish manufacturer of large milling, boring, and multitasking machines for heavy-duty aerospace, energy, and capital goods applications. Part of Danobat Group.

Spinner

Spinner Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik is a German manufacturer of CNC lathes, milling machines, and multi-tasking machining centers, founded in 1946. Based near Munich, Spinner builds a wide range of machines from compact bench lathes to large-capacity turning centers, known for solid German engineering at competitive price points compared to other European builders.

Star Micronics

Japanese manufacturer of precision CNC Swiss-type automatic lathes for high-volume production of small, complex turned parts.

Star SU

Star SU is the sales organisation of Star Cutter Company, a cutting tool maker founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1927 that added CNC machines in the 1980s. Star Cutter builds 5-axis CNC tool and cutter grinders (NXT, FLX), the UTG Series broach and gear tool grinders and the TRU TECH centerless and cylindrical grinders in the USA; Star SU also sells gear cutting tools, round tools and other makers' gear machines.

Starrag

Starrag Group is a Swiss manufacturer of high-precision machining centers for aerospace, energy, and industrial applications. Headquartered in Rorschacherberg, Switzerland, Starrag produces large-format 5-axis machines under brands including Starrag, Berthiez, Bumotec, Dörries, Droop+Rein, Ecospeed, Heckert, and SIP — covering everything from micro-machining to 10-meter turbine components.

Studer

CNC cylindrical grinding machines, part of United Grinding Group

Sugino

Sugino Machine is a Japanese industrial machinery maker that traces its roots to Sugino Cleaner Works, founded in Osaka in 1936 to make tube cleaners. Its machine tool line is the SELF-CENTER series of compact machining centers, launched in 1986 under the concept of small machines for small parts: #30 and #40 vertical and horizontal machines, turret type drilling and tapping centers and the multi-spindle GIGAFEEDER. The company also builds drilling and tapping units, water jet washing, deburring and cutting systems, and burnishing tools.

Sunnen

CNC honing machines for cylinder bores, hydraulic cylinders, and precision bores

Supertec

Supertec Machinery Inc. is a Taiwanese grinding machine builder based in Daya District, Taichung, which describes itself as a CNC grinding machine manufacturer since 1954. Its range covers CNC plunge, angular, universal and traverse-wheelhead cylindrical grinders, internal and three-axis complex grinders, centerless grinders, saddle, column and double-column surface grinders, and special machines such as gear rack and linear guideway grinders.

TGS

Total Grinding Solutions (TGS) is a manufacturer of CNC centerless grinders based in Warren, Michigan. Its published machine is the TGS-CL-6020, offered with Fanuc controls as standard and with automation, gaging and coolant packages as turnkey options.

TOS Kuřim

TOS KUŘIM - OS, a.s. builds heavy machine tools to order in Kuřim, Czech Republic: gantry machining centres with travelling or fixed gantries (FRF, FRUN, FRUF, FRPN, FRPF), horizontal machining centres with a travelling column (FU, FUT) and large vertical lathes (SKD, SKDY, SKJ). The vertical lathes come from the ČKD BLANSKO-OS portfolio, which was merged into the company in 2011. Since 2018 it has been part of the TOSHULIN group.

TOS Varnsdorf

Horizontal boring and milling machines for large component machining

TRAK Machine Tools

TRAK Machine Tools is the machine-tool brand of Southwestern Industries, Inc., which was founded in 1951 by former Lockheed engineer Dr. Fred Jenks and is headquartered in a 130,000 sq ft engineering, manufacturing and showroom facility in Rancho Dominguez, California, with a second 120,000 sq ft plant opened in Henderson, Nevada in 2021. It builds the ProtoTRAK conversational CNC (introduced in 1985) and fits it to TRAK knee mills, DPM bed mills, TRL toolroom lathes, the TC2 turning center, the VMC2 and the TMC toolroom machining centers, all aimed at toolroom and short-run work. Since 2021 it has also produced the VMCsi vertical machining centers and TCsi turning centers on the Siemens SINUMERIK ONE control for high-mix production, sold and serviced factory-direct across North America.

TRUMPF

German high-technology manufacturer of laser cutting, bending, punching, and additive manufacturing systems. Known for the TruLaser, TruBend, and TruPrint product lines.

Tajmac-ZPS

Czech manufacturer of multi-spindle turning automatics and CNC machining centers

Takamaz

Takamaz (Takamatsu Machinery Co.) is a Japanese manufacturer of compact CNC turning centers and multi-spindle lathes, founded in 1948. Based in Ishikawa Prefecture, Takamaz specializes in high-volume precision turning for automotive, medical, and electronics industries.

Takisawa

Takisawa is a Japanese machine tool builder, established in 1922, that builds CNC lathes, multi-tasking machines, machining centres, conventional lathes and FA cells and systems. Its current range runs from compact TCC and TCN chucking lathes and TK vertical lathes to TS and TM Y-axis twin-spindle lathes, TT twin-spindle loader lathes, the large TG big-bore lathes and the TEX and TMX B-axis multi-tasking machines.

Techni Waterjet

Thermal Dynamics

US pioneer in plasma cutting technology, maker of SL100 torch and Cutmaster plasma systems

Thermwood

CNC routers and large-scale additive manufacturing for composites and wood

Thielenhaus Technologies

CNC superfinishing and microfinishing machines for precision surface finishing

Tongtai

Tongtai Machine & Tool is a TWSE-listed Taiwanese machine tool builder, founded in 1969, with R&D and manufacturing bases in Kaohsiung and Suzhou. It builds vertical, horizontal and 5-axis machining centers, CNC and multi-tasking turning centers, drilling and tapping centers, PCB drilling and routing machines and metal additive manufacturing systems, alongside automation and turnkey line solutions. It belongs to TTGroup, alongside Honor Seiki, APEC, Quick-Tech, PCI-SCEMM and Anger.

Tormach

Tormach is an employee-owned maker of compact CNC machine tools based in Madison, Wisconsin, founded in 2001 to build small, capable mills that run on single-phase power. Its range covers the PCNC 440, 770M, 770MX, 1100M, 1100MX and 1500MX mills and the 8L and 15LX lathes, alongside routers, all run by its own PathPilot control. Tormach sells direct and says its newer 1500MX, 770MX and 15LX are designed and manufactured by its teams in the USA, Canada and Mexico.

Tornos

Swiss manufacturer of CNC Swiss-type automatic lathes and multispindle machines for watchmaking, medical, and micro-precision industries.

Toyoda

HMCs, VMCs, and cylindrical grinding machines for automotive and aerospace

Tsugami

Japanese manufacturer of compact Swiss-type CNC automatic lathes for precision turned parts in medical, electronics, and automotive.

Union

German manufacturer of CNC horizontal boring and milling machines, specialist in large-workpiece precision boring

United Grinding (Studer)

Swiss group comprising Studer (cylindrical grinding), Mägerle (surface/profile grinding), Blohm (surface grinding), Walter (tool grinding) and Ewag (tool grinding). Since 2026 part of United Machining Solutions (ums.swiss) together with the former GF Machining Solutions.

Ursviken Technology

Ursviken Technology is a Swedish manufacturer of heavy-duty CNC press brakes from 200 to 4000 tons for offshore, shipbuilding, energy, and heavy structural fabrication industries.

Velo3D

Velo3D is an American manufacturer of support-free metal 3D printing systems. Their Sapphire platform enables printing of geometries previously impossible with conventional laser powder bed fusion, serving aerospace, defense, and energy industries.

Victor Taichung

VMCs, 5-axis machining centers, and CNC lathes for general machining

Vision Wide

Vision Wide Tech Co. Ltd. is a Taiwanese CNC machine tool builder that sells under the VISION WIDE brand. Its range centres on double column (bridge) machining centers, from 3-axis and 5-face models to 5-axis and moving-column gantry machines, alongside vertical and horizontal machining centers, horizontal boring mills and machining centers for composite materials. The company names vehicle manufacture, power generation and aerospace components as the main applications.

Vollmer

CNC tool grinding and EDM erosion machines for carbide and PCD cutting tools

Voortman Steel Machinery

Dutch manufacturer of CNC cutting, drilling, and blasting machines for structural steel fabrication

WELE

WELE is a Taiwanese machine tool builder (published as WELE Mechatronic and WELE Machinery) that designs and builds five-axis and gantry-type machining centers, including the UG630 five-axis vertical machining center with an overhead gantry and trunnion table. In North America its machines are sold and serviced exclusively by JTEKT Machinery Americas. At TIMTOS 2025 WELE introduced the AWC automatic workpiece changer for the UG630.

WFL Millturn Technologies

Austrian manufacturer of complete turn-mill centers (MILLTURN) for one-hit machining of complex shaft and chuck parts up to 6,500 mm.

Waldrich Coburg

Waldrich Coburg is a German manufacturer of XXL portal milling and grinding machines for automotive die/mold, aerospace, and energy industries. Part of the HerkulesGroup, they build some of the largest CNC machine tools in the world.

WardJet

Weingärtner

Weingärtner Maschinenbau GmbH of Kirchham, Austria, designs and builds customized turning and milling machines together with its own programming software. Its main line is the mpmc (multi product machining center), a modular inclined-bed turn-mill machine for long, heavy workpieces such as plasticizing screws, turbine and generator shafts and crankshafts; the company also builds the vario, pickup and finish machines for screw and rotor production.

Weldon Solutions

Weldon Solutions builds CNC cylindrical grinders in York, Pennsylvania: the AGN4, G300, Midas, Altaira and Solaris OD grinders, the Gold OD/ID grinder and the UGC and Phoenix ID grinders, all on FANUC controls, alongside FANUC robotic automation and bakery automation systems. The company traces its roots to Flinchbaugh Manufacturing in the 1890s, began building its own CNC grinders in the mid-1970s as Weldon Hydraulics, became Weldon Machine Tool in 1983 and has traded as Weldon Solutions since 2004. It is employee-owned through an ESOP formed in 1999.

Willemin-Macodel

Willemin-Macodel SA is a Swiss manufacturer of ultra-precision mill-turn and micro-machining centers, founded in 1974. Based in Delémont, their machines serve watchmaking, medical implants, and aerospace micro-component manufacturing.

YCM

Taiwanese manufacturer of CNC machining centers, turning centers, and 5-axis machines with a strong presence in aerospace and automotive.

Yamazaki Mazak

One of the world's largest machine tool builders. Known for INTEGREX multi-tasking machines, QUICK TURN lathes, and VARIAXIS 5-axis machining centers.

Yasda Precision

Yasda Precision Tools is a Japanese manufacturer of ultra-precision machining centers with jig borer-class accuracy, founded in 1929. Distributed by Methods Machine Tools in North America, Yasda machines are prized in die/mold and aerospace for positioning accuracy under 1 micron.

Yawei

Jiangsu Yawei Machine Tool builds CNC sheet metal machinery in Yangzhou, Jiangsu: press brakes, turret punch presses, flat-bed and tube fiber laser cutting machines and 3D five-axis laser cutters, alongside stamping presses, coil processing lines and automation. The company states that it was founded in 1956 and is listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (002559). Its lines include the PBM, PBE, PBC, PBG, PBA and PBH press brakes, the HPM, HPE and HPC turret punches and the HLX, HLF, HLE, HLB, HLA and HLG laser cutting machines.

You Ji

You Ji Machine Industrial Co., Ltd. is a Taiwanese machine tool builder headquartered in Luzhu, Kaohsiung, with a subsidiary plant in China. It is best known for CNC vertical turning lathes, from 8 in chuck machines to hydrostatic-table models with table diameters up to 8,000 mm, and also builds horizontal turning lathes, vertical, horizontal and double-column machining centers and horizontal boring and milling machines. The company states that it was the first machine maker in Taiwan to obtain CE and EMC certification and sell into Europe.

Zayer

Zayer designs and builds milling machines and machining centers in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain: bed type, moving column, bridge type and gantry machines, plus special machines. The company traces its origins to the early 1950s and says it exports over 70% of its production. Its range runs from the ZERO and XIOS bed type machines through the KAIROS and KRONOS moving column machines to the TEBAS bridge and THERA gantry families.

Zimmermann

F. Zimmermann GmbH is a family-run German machine builder based in Neuhausen a.d.F., founded in 1933 and a specialist in portal milling machines since the 1990s. It builds modular 5-axis gantry machines in the FZP, FZU and FZG lines and FZH horizontal machining centers, together with its own milling heads, for model and mold making, aerospace and automotive work. A US subsidiary, Zimmermann Inc., operates in Wixom, Michigan.

Škoda Machine Tool

ŠMT a.s. of Plzeň, Czech Republic, builds heavy machine tools for large workpieces; the company says its machine tool production dates back to 1911. Its main products are the FCW and HCW horizontal boring and milling machines and the SR series of heavy horizontal lathes, alongside FC milling machines, WP and WPA portal milling machines, the S-MT multifunction machine, rotary tables and milling heads. The company also carries out general overhauls and modernisation of machines and has a subsidiary in China.