Used Daewoo Machines We Buy

Who Built Daewoo Machine Tools

Daewoo machine tools came from Daewoo Heavy Industries, which completed its machine tool factory in 1976, according to the history DN Solutions publishes today. Output climbed quickly from there: the 1,000th machine arrived in 1979, the company began producing NC machining centers in 1983, and it reached the 10,000 mark in 1990. The Daewoo name, in other words, sits on the opening chapter of a line that is still being built.

The Puma Started as a Daewoo

The Puma name is Daewoo's. In 1980 the company independently developed its own NC lathe, the PUMA 10, and DN Solutions still dates its place in the industry from the development of NC lathes in 1980. In 1997 it brought out a whole new CNC lathe series of 26 models at once. The maker still sells its turning centers under the PUMA name, decades after the first one.

Read us the whole model string from the plate, letters included: a series name alone does not tell us which machine it is.

Daewoo Years on DN Solutions' Timeline

Selected Daewoo-era entries on the maker's own history page, from the factory's completion onward:

From DN Solutions' history page; the Daewoo years end with the rename to Doosan Infracore in April 2005.

Daewoo Machines in North America

Daewoo began exporting NC machine tools in 1981, and in 1994 it set up DMC, Daewoo Machinery Corp., as its US subsidiary, so Daewoo lathes and mills reached American shops through a Daewoo company of their own. By 2000 the business had passed 50,000 cumulative machine tool shipments.

When the Daewoo Badge Ends

Daewoo's run on the nameplate ends in April 2005, the month the maker's timeline records the change to Doosan Infracore. Two more names followed, Doosan Machine Tools in May 2016 and DN Solutions in May 2022, and the DN Solutions brand story says the D in its group name still carries the legacy of Daewoo and Doosan.

A Daewoo plate therefore usually points to the older end of the line. Listing records are not always that tidy, and some machines filed under Daewoo show build years after 2005, so send us the year from the plate along with the model. Later Doosan and DN Solutions machines from the same builder are filed under those names.

Parts and Service for an Older Daewoo

DN Solutions handles warranty claims, parts requests and technical questions through one integrated call center. Whether a particular part for a Daewoo is still on its shelf is a question for that line to answer, not one we can promise. If the call ends in a long lead time, or a repair bill larger than the machine is worth to you, we buy older Daewoos running or not.

The Daewoo Machines in Our Current Book

Our Daewoo hub holds five listings, and that is the whole of it rather than a first page. Four sit under CNC Lathes and one under CNC Vertical Machining Centers (VMC). All five carry a Daewoo nameplate, so no other manufacturer sits inside this hub. Five listings, five different models: PUMA 230B, PUMA 300 LB, Lynx 200 B, HYPER5, and VC500. Nothing is doubled up, which means the grid below is five separate machines rather than a row of the same lathe listed over and over. Four of the five carry a build year, and those four span 2000 to 2012. The fifth carries no year on its listing, so we do not put a date on it. Measured across the whole MTE catalog, Daewoo sits at rank 65 of 126 brands by listing count. This is a small book and a specific one: five named machines, each scoped on its own.

Daewoo, Doosan, and DN Solutions Are One Line

Yes, a Daewoo and a Doosan are the same machine tool line. Daewoo's machine tool business, which began when Daewoo Heavy Industries completed its machine tool factory in 1976, was renamed Doosan Infracore in April 2005, Doosan Machine Tools in May 2016 and DN Solutions in May 2022. The Puma family started under Daewoo with the PUMA 10 in 1980, and Puma and Lynx carried through every rename with the engineering and parts lineage intact. That matters both ways. Buying, a Daewoo-badged Puma is not orphaned iron: parts and service continued through each later name, and the Fanuc control on most of these machines is one your people already program. Selling, that same fact protects your number, since a machine with a live parts channel does not take the discount a dead brand takes. We also buy the Doosan and DN Solutions generations of these same lines. Doosan is the fifth largest brand across the wider MTE catalog at 3,706 listings, though none of those sit in this Daewoo hub.

What Moves the Offer on a Used Daewoo

Three things move the number on a Daewoo, and none is a formula. First is model and configuration. Inside our own five listings a PUMA 230B and a PUMA 300 LB are two different conversations, since LB is the long-bed build and bed length, chuck size, and turning capacity separate one Puma from another. A sub-spindle, live tooling, a Y-axis, a bar feeder, a tailstock, or a parts catcher each add to the scope, as do the chucks and steady rests that come with it. Second is hours and condition. Spindle hours, way and ballscrew wear, and whether the machine still holds tolerance move the number both ways, and with build years here running 2000 to 2012, condition does more work than the year alone. Third is control and tooling: most Daewoo iron runs a Fanuc control any shop can program and service. Jason Puuri scopes each machine on those inputs himself.

Puma and Lynx: The Turning Side

Turning is where this book leans, four of five listings under CNC Lathes. Two of the five carry a Puma nameplate, a PUMA 230B and a PUMA 300 LB, and no other model name repeats in the book. The Lynx line shows up once, as a Lynx 200 B, and Lynx is the small-footprint turning line shops reach for when floor space counts. What we hold and what we buy are different lists, and the buy list runs far wider. On the Puma side we buy the 200, 230, 240, 250, 300, and 350, the LB long-bed builds, the C, B, and S variants, the MX and MS mill-turn and sub-spindle versions with live tooling and a Y-axis, and the V vertical-turning machines. On the Lynx side, the 200 and 220 in LC, LM, and MB variants, with or without live tooling and sub-spindles. Beyond the PUMA 230B, PUMA 300 LB, and Lynx 200 B already on the book, none of that range is stock here. The rest are machines we will quote.

Daewoo Milling Machines: What We Hold and What We Buy

The milling side of this hub is one listing deep and worth stating plainly: CNC Vertical Machining Centers (VMC) shows a count of one against four under CNC Lathes. VC500 is one of the five model strings on the book. The counts and the model names are separate facts here, so we will not pair a nameplate to a category we cannot verify. The Daewoo milling lineup we buy runs well past what is sitting here. DMV and Mynx vertical machining centers, including the DMV 4020, are the core of the Daewoo milling range and we buy them outright. DHP horizontal machining centers and the related HC horizontals come out as single units or full cells, so the pallet pools and tombstones go along with them. Fourth-axis rotaries, vises, and the tooling that lives with a mill go on the same quote rather than being left for you to sell separately.

Selling a Daewoo Off Your Floor

A Daewoo comes off a floor for a few reasons. A shop upgrades and the retired Puma no longer fits the plan. A contract ends and turning capacity has to be right-sized. Two buildings become one, or a plant relocates and freight on older iron does not pencil out. An owner retires or an estate settles a shop. A larger shop standardizes on fewer control generations and sells the off-standard machines. Or a Daewoo sits idle waiting on a repair decision, which is dead capital. The process is three steps: tell us what you have, get a number back within 24 to 48 hours, then accept it and MTE can arrange rigging, crating, freight and the pickup. We are the buyer, not a broker or an auction, so the offer comes directly from us. Have the model, year, condition, spindle hours, control type, an options list, and photos ready.