Used Amada Machines We Buy

Who Makes Amada Machines

Amada machines are built by AMADA CO., LTD. of Japan. Its founder, Isamu Amada, started with a one-man machine repair shop, Amada Works, run on a lathe salvaged from a burnt-out munitions factory after the war. Amada dates its founding to September 10, 1946, in Toshima-ku, Tokyo, and the limited partnership AMADA Manufactures followed in 1948. The earliest machines on Amada's own timeline are saws, a vertical band saw in 1955 and horizontal cut-off band saws from 1956; press brakes came in 1965 and the NC turret punch press in 1971.

The company took the name AMADA CO., LTD. in 1964 and moved its headquarters in 1969 to Isehara, in Kanagawa Prefecture, where it still is. Amada reports 9,872 employees on a consolidated basis as of March 2026 and says the group operates in over 100 countries across six core businesses: sheet metal processing, welding, cutting, grinding machines, stamping presses and printed circuit board processing equipment.

Where Your Amada Was Built

Amada calls its Fujinomiya and Toki works the mother factories for its sheet metal machines: major modules are built there and sent to the group's production bases abroad, and laser oscillators and core modules come from its core plants in Japan. Amada counts 24 manufacturing bases in all, and in 2007 it opened a dedicated laser factory at Fujinomiya.

In the US, Amada set up a technology development company in Seattle in 1971, and Amada America has been in California since 1973, with headquarters in Buena Park. U.S. Sonoike, now part of Amada America, began producing NC turret punches in California from knock-down kits in 1981. Amada opened its Brea, California, plant in 2013, a 180,000 sq. ft. facility building lasers and automation, and its Carolina Manufacturing Center in High Point, North Carolina, on December 6, 2019, where its HRB hybrid-drive press brakes are made. A used Amada in a US shop may have come from any of them, or from Japan.

When Amada Introduced Its Main Lines

Amada's own company history dates these launches, in order. Its year-by-year pages do not date every family; the HFE, HG and FBD brakes and the FO and LC lasers, for example, have no entry:

Amada's current US catalog, as of this writing, lists ENSIS, VENTIS, REGIUS, ORSUS and BREVIS fiber lasers; EM, EMK and AE turret punches; EML, ACIES and LC combination machines; and HRB, HG and EGB press brakes.

Dating a Used Amada by Its Drive, Laser and Control

Amada's own timeline lets a used machine be placed roughly by what drives it. On turret punches, the VIPROS series of 1989 was a hydraulic machine; Amada's first electric servo turret punch, the EM series, came in 2002, and its current US catalog lists the AE NT as a servo-drive punch. On lasers, Amada built Japan's first CO2 laser machine in 1980 and did not have a fiber oscillator of its own until 2010, when it launched the FOL-3015AJ; the ENSIS followed in 2014, and the ENSIS AJ is listed today from 3 kW to 15 kW. On controls, Amada announced its NT machines, networked through the AMNC/PC control, in 1997, so an NT on the plate of an EM2510NT or FBD8025NT points to that family or later.

Those three things, punch drive, laser source and control generation, are what we ask about on an Amada before tonnage, wattage or hours, because they place the machine in Amada's own lineage before condition is weighed.

The Amada Models We See Most

The first page of this hub shows the spread. On the laser side there are ENSIS 3015 AJ fiber machines, an FOM2 3015 NT and an older LC2415 Alpha III. The turret punches include an EMK3510NT, an AE-255NT and an ARIES 255NT; the press brakes, FBD8025E and FBD8025NT machines and an EGB-4010e electric brake; the saws, an HA-400 and an HDA-250. An APELIO combination machine sits among them, along with older units listed only by maker and year. Each is scoped on its own data plate.

Amada's Service Network, or Selling Outright

Amada America says it has the largest and most responsive network of service personnel in the US machine tool industry. It sells maintenance plans, including a laser plan, and takes parts and tooling orders through its own order desks. Amada set up the AMADA SCHOOL in Japan in 1978 to train operators. That support is the right call for an Amada you are keeping in production. For one you are replacing, we buy it outright, and a maintenance-plan record or recent service report is worth sending with the model and serial.

How the Amada Listings Break Down by Machine Type

All 2,190 Amada listings sit in exactly one category, and the split is not the one most fabricators picture. The catalog's broad Metal Cutting label carries 1,108 of them, more than every other category put together at 1,082. Past that label the named buckets read cleanly: 372 press brakes, being 369 filed as CNC Press Brakes and 3 as Press Brakes; 197 punching machines spread across six punch and turret-punch labels; 167 laser cutting machines, split 122 CNC Laser Cutting Machines and 45 CNC Laser Cutters; 153 saws, led by 69 CNC Band Saws and 67 CNC Saws; 50 shears; and 30 grinders. A few counts surprise people on an Amada page: 16 boring mills, 14 automation and pallet systems, 14 lathes, and 29 filed as miscellaneous. Read a category as where a listing got filed, not as a spec. The data plate model number is what places a machine.

Amada Model Families We Log Most, and the Long Tail

RG is the largest model token in this hub at 144 listings, then HFE at 87, FBD at 83, PEGA at 82, VIPROS at 80, and LC at 57. On the brake side that is RG, HFE, and FBD, plus HFB at 43, HG at 19, HDS at 18. Turret punching runs PEGA and VIPROS, then EMK at 16, ARIES at 13, AE at 13, and EM at 9. Lasers are ENSIS at 36, FO at 27, LCG at 15, QUATTRO at 12, FOM2 at 10, and EML at 8 for punch-laser combos. Band saws are HA at 38 and HFA at 28. The strings a searcher types are here too: RG-80 on 16 listings, RG-50 on 15, M-3060 on 13, HA-250W on 12, EM2510NT on 8, and ENSIS 3015 AJ FIBER on 6. Behind those, 1,515 distinct model strings across 2,190 listings, so most Amada numbers here appear once or twice.

What Moves the Offer on a Used Amada

Control generation is the first thing we ask about. A machine on a current Amada AMNC screen and one on an older or Delem-class control are two different conversations before anything else, and with build years on file running 1971 to 2026, a 1980s RG and a current ENSIS sit at opposite ends of that span. After that, the drivers get specific to the machine. On a laser it is source type, wattage, and run hours. On a press brake it is tonnage, bed length, and how many back-gauge axes are under control. On a turret punch it is tonnage, station count, hit rate, and servo-electric versus hydraulic drive. On a shear it is cutting length, maximum thickness, and the CNC back gauge. Included tooling, dies, and attached automation count, and so does whether the machine is producing accurate parts today. Jason Puuri scopes each one himself rather than running a formula.

What to Have Ready Before You Call

Start with the model, serial number, year, and an honest read on condition. The model number does real work here. Our own Amada catalog holds 1,515 distinct model strings across 2,190 listings, so the data plate is what separates an RG-50 from an RG-100, or an EM2510NT from an AE-2510NT, before anyone talks about a number. Then add what fits the machine. Laser: source type, wattage, run hours. Press brake: tonnage, bed length, back-gauge axes. Turret punch: tonnage, station count, hit rate. Shear: cutting length and maximum thickness. Control type on anything, current Amada AMNC or older. Photos help and are not required, and the three that answer the most questions are the control screen, the ram and back gauge, and the laser head or resonator. Clearing more than one machine? A plain list of models and quantities is enough to start, and we will sort the rest out on the call.

Why Fab Shops Sell an Amada

Six situations account for most of the Amada machines that come off a floor. The biggest is a cutting upgrade, CO2 to fiber or a step up in wattage, and both generations sit in this hub at once: FO at 27 listings and FOM2 at 10 on the older side, ENSIS at 36 and LCG at 15 on the fiber side. Second is a move into robotic bending or load-tower automation, and the catalog backs that up with 14 automation and pallet systems plus ASR, LST, and EG tokens in the family roll-up. Third and fourth are shop downsizing or owner retirement, and facility consolidation or relocation, where duplicate machines go surplus in one move. Fifth is capacity rebalancing after a contract winds down. Sixth is an estate sale or a business liquidation. In every case, MTE buys the displaced machine outright, so it is gone before the new install lands.

Selling to MTE Instead of Brokering or Auctioning It

MTE is the buyer, not a broker, a marketplace, a consignment shop, or an auction. The offer comes directly from the buyer. We buy in any condition, running, idle, under power, or decommissioned. One band saw in a back corner and a full fabrication floor get the same handling, one quote and one pickup, and we can arrange rigging, crating, and freight in all 50 states, with the pickup arranged for you. Machine Tool Exchange, founded in 2012, is an affiliate of Superior Machine and Tool and a direct used-equipment buyer, not an Amada dealer or service center. If the floor is mixed, the Amada does not have to leave alone. We also buy Mazak, Haas, Okuma, Doosan, DMG MORI, and Makino equipment, so a shop clearing a laser, a brake, and a machining center moves all of it in one transaction.