Used DMG MORI Machines We Buy

Who Builds DMG MORI Machines Now

DMG MORI is a group of two companies that grew out of a partnership. The parent is DMG MORI COMPANY LIMITED, the former Mori Seiki, with its global headquarters in Tokyo and its European headquarters in Munich. The German member, DMG MORI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, keeps its registered office in Bielefeld, where Gildemeister built lathes.

The two worked together from 2009. On 1 October 2013 Gildemeister Aktiengesellschaft became DMG MORI SEIKI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT and, in Japan, Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. became DMG MORI SEIKI COMPANY LIMITED, and both began selling under the one DMG MORI brand. That was a shared name, not a merger: the 2013 report still calls them two strong companies. In April 2016 the Japanese company raised its stake in the German one to 76.03% and moved to a control and profit transfer agreement.

Mori Seiki, Gildemeister and Deckel Maho: Three Badges, One Group

A used DMG MORI can carry any of three older names, and each points to a different factory tradition. Mori Seiki is the Japanese side; DMG MORI's Davis, California campus began in 2000 as a Mori Seiki research and development division. Gildemeister is the Bielefeld turning side, and DMG MORI still describes its Bielefeld company as its expertise in universal turning, production turning and turn-mill work, with the CTX TC and CLX TC series coming from there.

Deckel Maho is the milling side. DMG MORI's Pfronten page traces it to 1920, when five precision engineers founded Maho; Maho later merged with Deckel, and in 1994 Deckel Maho joined Gildemeister as DMG. That is why a DMU or DMC on your floor may say Deckel Maho on an older casting and DMG MORI on a newer one.

DMG MORI Dates on Its Own Pages

Dates DMG MORI states on its own site and in its annual reports, oldest first. The list stops at 2020, the latest milestone on the pages we could save:

Sources: DMG MORI's Pfronten, Davis and Bielefeld site pages, its 2016 Davis press release, and the DMG MORI annual reports for 2013 and 2016 (published by DMG MORI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT). DMG MORI's Japanese history pages did not load for us, so Mori Seiki's own founding date is not in this table.

Which DMG MORI Plant Built Your Machine

DMG MORI names Iga, in Japan's Mie Prefecture, as its largest production site, building everything from small turning centers to large mill-turn and 5-axis machines. In Germany, Pfronten builds the monoBLOCK DMU and DMC machines and the XXL portal and gantry mills; DMG MORI says the plant produces 50 different machine types and has capacity for around 1,500 machines a year.

For North American shops the plant to know is Davis, California. DMG MORI's North American factory there opened in July 2012, the first American-built DMG MORI machines followed that year, and today the range made in Davis covers nearly the whole NHX horizontal line, from the NHX 4000 3rd Generation through the NHX 8000. A US-built NHX and a Japanese-built one are bought on the same basis: the machine's condition, hours and pallet setup.

CELOS, the Shared DMG MORI Screen

CELOS came out of the partnership. DMG MORI's 2013 annual report calls it a joint software development and a standard user interface for the group's new high-tech machines, and says CELOS drew most of the visitor interest at that year's EMO show in Hanover. A machine built before CELOS will show a different screen, often on a Fanuc, Siemens or Mitsubishi control, so a photo of the control panel tells us a lot about the machine's age. Tell us which one you see; it is one of the first things a buyer of your machine will ask.

DMG MORI's Own Used-Machine Desk, or Selling to Us

DMG MORI runs its own used-machine business and calls it the world's largest dealer of used CNC machine tools. It takes buyback requests online for DMG MORI machines and other makes, certifies the machines it resells under the DMG MORI APPROVED program and lists them on its CNC-Scout portal. Its Davis plant also houses a Spindle Rebuild Center for machines that stay in service.

Those are the right doors if you are buying new from DMG MORI or rebuilding a spindle to keep the machine. If you want it sold and gone, with no new machine attached, send it to us and we will make a direct offer.

What Moves the Offer on a Used DMG MORI

Control platform is the first question on a DMG MORI, because the same nameplate ships with CELOS, Fanuc, Siemens or Mitsubishi, and which one it runs changes how fast a shop could put the machine back to work. After that it is spindle hours, whether the machine still holds tolerance, and what the configuration actually includes. On the NLX and NT turning machines, a sub-spindle, a Y-axis and live tooling separate an otherwise identical model from a bare two-axis lathe. On the NHX and NH horizontals, the pallet changer and whether a pallet pool came with it weigh as much as the hours. On a DMU, trunnion and rotary condition carry the offer. Jason Puuri scopes each of these himself instead of running a formula, so the model number, the build year, the control screen and an honest hours reading get you a real number faster than photos alone do.

Mori Seiki and Deckel Maho Under One Nameplate

Gildemeister (Deckel Maho Gildemeister) and Mori Seiki, partners since 2009, took the shared DMG MORI name in 2013, so a data plate reading Mori Seiki, Deckel Maho or DMG MORI all lands in this same hub. Every one of the 3,313 listings here sits under the single DMG MORI label, which is why the legacy nameplate search and the current one return the same iron. The Japanese heritage shows up in the model strings: 397 listings carry an SL model number, 119 an NLX, 116 an MV, 99 an NL and 69 a ZL. The German side shows up as 160 DMU listings, 68 DMC and 56 CTX. Another 52 listings have a model string beginning with Deckel and 66 beginning with Seiki, which is how the original seller typed the data plate rather than a separate brand count. Among the listings that carry a build year, the span runs 1972 to 2025, and another 397 record no year at all.

What This Hub Actually Holds

The 3,313 listings break out like this. Metal Cutting is the largest bucket at 1,346, and it is the site's broad catch-all rather than a machine type, so it holds a mix instead of one kind of machine. Past it the split gets specific: CNC Lathes 852, CNC Vertical Machining Centers 520, CNC Horizontal Machining Centers 232, CNC 5-Axis Machining Centers 111, CNC Multi-Tasking mill-turn 109 and CNC Turning Centers 97. The tail is short but real: 12 miscellaneous CNC machines, 5 Swiss-type lathes, 5 horizontal boring mills, 4 drilling and tapping centers, 3 gantry and portal mills, three categories holding two machines each and eleven more holding a single machine. Across all of it sit 2,191 distinct model numbers, which is roughly one distinct model number for every listing and a half. That last figure is the one worth reading twice, because it says this hub is not one family repeated at volume, it is depth.

Lathes, Turning Centers and Mill-Turn Machines

Here is the turning book, by model token. SL is the single largest model grouping in the hub at 397 listings, a Mori Seiki line rather than a Deckel Maho one. NLX comes in at 119 and NL at 99, with NL2500 a separate string on 20 more. The German turning line comes in as 56 CTX listings and 16 CLX, alongside 16 SPRINT and 6 MULTISPRINT lathes. ZL at 69 and NZX at 35 cover the multi-spindle and twin-turret work, and DURATURN adds 18. On the mill-turn side, NT and NTX carry 46 listings each against a CNC Multi-Tasking category of 109, with MT adding 24. Counting the dedicated turning categories together, lathes, turning centers, Swiss-type and vertical turning come to 955 listings. Read the suffixes before comparing two of them: S signals a sub-spindle, Y a Y-axis, MC live milling. NLX2500SY holds 16 listings and NL2500SY 14, and those letters change how the machine gets scoped.

Machining Centers: Vertical, Horizontal and 5-Axis

The milling book splits three ways. Verticals are the largest milling category at 520, showing up as 116 MV listings, 56 SV, 37 CMX, 32 DURAVERTICAL, 25 NV, 23 NVX, 17 ECOMILL, 16 NMV and 14 MILLTAP. Horizontals account for 232, and the pallet arrangement usually decides it: NHX carries 68 listings, SH 68, NH 56 and MH 44, with the size-coded strings counted separately at NH5000 27, NHX4000 23, NH4000 20, NH6300 13 and NHX5000 13. Those size codes are separate model strings, not subtotals of a parent line, so they do not add up into one family. The universal machines doing the five-axis work are DMU at 160 listings and DMC at 68, while the CNC 5-Axis Machining Centers category holds 111. Those are two different cuts of the same catalog. Past those families sit HSC, ULTRASONIC, LASERTEC and DMF machines, plus 5 horizontal boring mills and 3 gantry mills.

Selling Yours Instead of Listing It

MTE is a direct buyer, not a broker, an auction platform or a listing service. Three steps. Send the model, year, condition, spindle hours, tooling and control type. An offer typically comes back within 24 to 48 hours, and form submissions get a reply within one to two business days. Accept and we can arrange rigging, crating and freight in all 50 states, and we can arrange the pickup. Condition is not a filter here. A DMG MORI running production, one idle since a job ended, and one down pending a repair decision are all machines we buy, and saying what is wrong upfront gets it scoped accurately. One machine or a whole floor during a changeover works the same, each scoped on its own hours and condition instead of one blanket number. MTE is an affiliate of Superior Machine and Tool, active in used CNC since 2012. Call 517-514-5190.