Used Giana Machines We Buy

Who Builds Giana Machines

Giana machines are built by Giuseppe Giana S.r.l. in Magnago, in the province of Milan, Italy. Giuseppe Giana, the last of six brothers, started out as a worker at a company that built vertical lathes and planers. In 1964, back from military service, he took the reins of the company he had founded with his brothers and began building center lathes under his own name.

In 1966 the company expanded. New workshops went up, it tripled in size within a few years, and it moved from small center lathes to large lathes, special machines, deep hole drilling machines and honing machines. In 1967, at 33, Giuseppe Giana was named a Cavaliere del Lavoro, which Giana says made him the youngest in the history of the Italian Republic.

In 1990 a new company began, focused on large machines and special solutions with a high level of automation. In 2005 Giana moved its technical offices to 3D CAD, and in the same passage of its history it describes the GGTRONIC multi-tasking machine, which it calls the first lathe in the world to use roller shoes on linear guides for the Z axis. After Giuseppe Giana's death, the company passed to his children, Carolina and Giulio Giana. Giuseppe Giana S.r.l. was founded in 2016 to build new machines and to carry the history built over sixty years.

Giana says about 90% of its production is done in house, and that 9 of every 10 mechanical parts it uses are designed and made in its Magnago workshop.

Giana's Lines Today

Giana's product page, as we read it in November, lists six groups: GGTronic horizontal lathes, GGL lathes, GGB drilling machines, Vertronic vertical lathes, Picco deburring machines and Gioria grinders. The GGTronic runs from the GGtronic 1800 to the GGtronic 5000. The GGL comes as the GGL 650 and the GGL 900, and the GGB as the GGB 250, GGB 360, GGB 560, GGB 1200 and GGB 2500.

Giana's history says that as of 2024 it builds center lathes, vertical lathes, drilling machines, lapping machines and its multi-tasking machines. Its home page adds that it continues to build rounding and deburring machines under the Picco Angelo & C. brand. Its brands page names two group brands: Gioria, a maker of high-precision grinding machines founded in 1962, and Picco, which Giana describes as a maker of precision tools.

Reading the Maker's Figures on a Used Giana

Giana publishes the key figures for each current model, and they are the figures that place a used one. The GGL 900 has 900 mm bed ways, center heights of 620 to 920 mm, a swing over the carriage of 750 to 1,350 mm, 8 to 15 tonnes between centers and turning lengths of 2,000 to 12,000 mm. The smaller GGL 650 has 650 mm bed ways and turning lengths of 1,500 to 8,000 mm. Both sit on a cast iron bed that rests on the floor along its full length, with induction-hardened and ground ways, and Giana offers driven tools, a Y axis and a C axis as options.

The GGtronic 3000 is built on two beds, one carrying the headstock, tailstock and steady rests and one carrying the carriages. Giana lists center heights of 1,350 to 1,560 mm, swings of 2,500 to 3,100 mm, 4,000 to 30,000 mm between centers and 60 to 100 tonnes between centers without a steady rest. The Vertronic vertical lathe turns diameters of 3,200 to 6,500 mm, depending on size, and carries 120 tonnes on its table. The GGB 1200 drills holes of 80 to 300 mm, bores to 600 mm and reaches drilling lengths of over 20,000 mm.

So on a used Giana we start with the ways, because a bed that long has a lot of surface to wear, then the options fitted, the control and whether the machine still holds tolerance. A plate photo plus these figures lets us match your machine to Giana's own sizes.

What Is in the Giana Book Right Now

Giana is the only brand in this hub. All 21 listings carry the Giana nameplate, no second builder mixed in, so this is a single-brand book rather than a category page with some Giana in it. The catalog files them two ways: 8 of the 21 carry the specific CNC Lathes type, and the other 13 sit under the broader Metal Cutting classification with no narrower type assigned. There are 20 distinct model designations across those 21 listings, so 19 of the 20 appear exactly once and GFP 10 is the only designation that repeats. That is a book of one-off machines, not a rack of interchangeable units. Thirteen of the 21 carry a build year and those run 1989 to 2008; the other 8 carry no year at all. For scale, Giana ranks 57th of the 126 brands we track across the site, so this is a specialty corner of the inventory rather than a deep one.

Giana Model Families We See Most

GFP is the largest family here at 6 of the 21 listings, splitting evenly across the two catalog buckets, 3 filed as CNC Lathes and 3 under Metal Cutting. GGH is second at 4, weighted the other way, 3 under Metal Cutting and 1 typed as a CNC Lathe. GFS and TG follow at 2 each. Those four families cover 14 of the 21 listings. The remaining 7 sit in designations that appear exactly once: GFSC 12 CNC, GGTRONIC 3000 TRIPLE X 1350 x 12000, 400X1500, RR510DMC Ratio, GF 12 CNC, CFP 12 and GGL-900. Read that tail the right way. On a Giana hub an unfamiliar designation is the normal case rather than the exception, so a model number that appears nowhere on this page is not a problem. Send the string exactly as it reads off the data plate and we will scope it the same way we scope a GFP.

Size Figures Are Written Into the Model Number

On a Giana the capacity figures usually sit inside the designation itself, which is unusual and useful. Look at the strings in this book: GGH 1100/760 X 12000, GGTRONIC 3000 TRIPLE X 1350 x 12000, TG 410/5000, GFP-24, 400X1500 and GGL-900. Where the string carries a pair of figures, they record size in metric, often a height or swing and then a length between centres, so a trailing 12000 reads as 12,000 mm of turning length, roughly 39 feet. Which figure is which varies by line, so we read them against Giana's own figures for that model. These are long, heavy, floor-eating machines, not something that tucks into a cell. One caution: that figure is catalog text, not a verified spec on any unit, so confirm it against the machine. This hub shows why. Three of the four GGH listings carry the same 1100/760 x 12000 configuration spelled three different ways: GGH 1100/760 x 12.000 CNC, GGH 1100/760 X 12000, and GGH 1100/760 X 12. Same size, three strings, which is why Jason Puuri asks for a data plate photo instead of typed model text.

What Moves the Number on a Used Giana

Size comes first, and on a Giana the size figures are usually already on the plate. After that the offer turns on condition items you can check yourself. Bed and way wear matter more on a machine carrying a 12,000 mm length figure than on a short lathe: a long bed has more surface to go out of true. Then spindle and headstock condition, steady rests, tailstock, chucks, the tooling, and the control make and generation. Last, whether it still holds tolerance in production. Age matters in one specific way. The dated listings in this book run 1989 to 2008, so on the older end the question is whether parts and service for that control are still available, which decides how fast a shop can put it back to work. Jason Puuri weighs these himself rather than running a formula, and a quote usually comes back inside 24 to 48 hours.

The Rest of the Giana Lineup We Buy

What we buy runs wider than what sits on the floor. Giuseppe Giana builds well beyond bed lathes, and we buy the rest of that range: GGB deep hole drilling machines, Vertronic vertical lathes, lapping machines, and the grinding and deburring machines of its Gioria and Picco brands. None of those are in this hub, so nothing here is one of them. If you own one it is still equipment we buy, and /sell-your-deep-hole-drill/ is the faster route for a boring machine. On the turning side we buy GGL and GGH lathes beyond the sizes listed above, plus GGTRONIC multi-tasking lathes. Condition is not a filter either. Running production, sitting idle since the job ended, stopped mid-repair, or coming out during a plant changeover all get an offer. A floor that carries a Giana next to other heavy lathes gets handled together on a single quote.

Selling a Giana Direct Instead of Listing It

Have the data plate model and serial ready, the build year, swing and distance between centres, the control make and generation, the tooling and steady rests, and whether it is still under power. Photos are not required but they speed things up: the data plate, the control screen, and one wide shot of how the machine sits on the floor. That last one counts for more here than on a vertical mill, because designations in this book run to 12000 and the rigging plan gets built off the real footprint, not a catalog spec. Then the terms. Machine Tool Exchange purchases outright, not on consignment and not as a broker or listing service, so your sale is never contingent on us finding a later buyer. We can arrange rigging, crating and freight in all 50 states, and we can arrange the pickup. A mixed floor goes on one quote and one pickup schedule, each machine still scoped on its own model, control and condition.