Used Gurutzpe Machines We Buy

Who Makes Gurutzpe Lathes

Gurutzpe lathes are built by Gurutzpe Turning Solutions S.L., headquartered on the Q8 industrial estate in Itziar, Deba, Spain. Gurutzpe dates its origins to 1957 and says it has designed, built and serviced more than 6,000 custom horizontal lathes since then. It describes its business as heavy-duty lathes for machining strategic parts in demanding industrial sectors, and it claims over 60 years of experience.

Gurutzpe is part of the INZU Group, a group of specialist companies in machinery manufacturing. Outside Spain the maker runs its own offices in Germany, France, Italy, China and the United States, where Gurutzpe USA is in Troy, Michigan. The rest of the world is covered by exclusive agents and distributors with local technical service.

Gurutzpe's Current Lines

The maker's product page, as we read it for this guide, lists three series. The GL series are flat-bed lathes on hydrodynamic guides, built on a monoblock cast iron bed. The GL has 2 self-centring V-guides. The GLX and GLH have 4, and on the GLX the carriage and the steady rests run in separate areas, so the tool can cross a steady rest and finish a part in a single setup. The GH series moves to hydrostatic guiding, which Gurutzpe calls pump per pocket: the GHH has a single bed and the GHD a double bed, and the series takes parts up to 4 m in diameter and 200 t. The GSM, in the GS series, is a slant-bed turnmill with a milling-boring column, which the maker presents as its new range of TurnMill machines.

In a current name the number is the size class, and on the GLX and GLH it matches the swing over the bed in hundreds of millimeters, as the table below shows. Plates such as GLH25, GLH30 and GLX13 belong to these current lines. Older designations seen on used Gurutzpe machines, among them SUPER, the A-series, AUTO and G-POWER, are not described on the maker's current pages, so on those we read capacity off the data plate.

Gurutzpe Lines and Sizes

The lines on Gurutzpe's product pages, with the sizes the maker gives in its technical data:

Swing figures are from the GLX and GLH technical data pages; the GL and GH capacities are from the series pages.

What Decides the Offer on a Used Gurutzpe

Gurutzpe builds to order, so two machines with the same family name can differ a great deal. The first questions are the swing, the distance between centers and the guide system: 2 or 4 V-guides on a GL-type bed, or hydrostatic guides on a GH. The condition of those guides decides how well the machine still holds a cut over its full length.

Then come the options. The maker offers steady rests of many kinds, from open and closed to hydraulic, self-centring and hydrostatic, and on its larger machines a milling and boring column with head and tool changers. Sensors for vibration, temperature and energy use may also be fitted. List what came with the machine, the control it runs, any tooling, and whether it runs under power.

Gurutzpe Parts, Retrofits and Service, or Selling Outright

Gurutzpe says its spare parts service covers all machine models, even the oldest ones, and it makes parts to drawing for conventional machines over 20 years old. Its retrofit team works on Gurutzpe lathes and on other makers' machines: a full mechanical revision, regrinding of the guides back to the original tolerances, new spindles or turrets, and CNC upgrades to Siemens, Fagor or Fanuc.

The maker still sells in the United States through its Troy office, and it listed IMTS Chicago 2026 among its events. That route is the right one for a Gurutzpe you plan to rebuild and keep. For one you want off the floor, we buy it outright, and records of a retrofit or a new control are worth sending with the details.

What the 85 Gurutzpe Listings Actually Are

Every listing here is Gurutzpe, all 85 of them, and no second brand appears in the group. The catalog files them into exactly two buckets: Metal Cutting at 49 and CNC Lathes at 36. There is no third category here, no Other and no Miscellaneous residue bucket, which is unusual across our hubs. Read the 49 carefully, though. Metal Cutting is the catalog's generic parent bucket rather than a machine type, so it is the biggest number here and the one that describes the least. CNC Lathes at 36 is the specific machine-type signal. The sharper fact is the model column: 81 distinct model designations across 85 listings. Only three designations repeat at all, SUPER AT at three, A1000 at two and A-1200 at two, leaving 78 listings with a model string that appears exactly once. Build years are recorded on 19 of the 85, running from 1978 to 2022.

The SUPER Line Is a Third of This Hub

SUPER is the largest family here at 30 listings, better than a third of the 85 and six times the next family value. It is also the least diagnostic. The catalog files those 30 as 19 Metal Cutting and 11 CNC Lathes, roughly the hub's own 49/36 shape, so SUPER on a plate does not settle what the machine is. The strings a searcher types are here: SUPER AT, the most repeated designation in the hub, then SUPER BT 10000/800, SUPER BT 6000X660, SUPER BT 3000/700, SUPER AT 4000X1000mm, Super AT 500/4000, Super AT 400/6000, SUPER M 1500 X 600 MM, SUPER Mx2000, SUPER-M, SUPER-B, TIMEMASTER-SUPER, and SUPER A 4500, whose descriptor reads Heavy-duty lathes. Those trailing numbers are the catalog's record of capacity, the first thing scoped. The catalog is inconsistent about the name: SUPER AT and Super AT both appear, and Suber BT is almost certainly its own misspelling.

The A-Series and How the Catalog Records It

The A-series is the second cluster, and it is far bigger as a set of strings than as a family. A1000 is the family value at four listings, filed two Metal Cutting and two CNC Lathes, the only exact even split the catalog records. Almost every other A machine is a one-off: A-1000, A-1000/1, A-1000/ 2, A-1000 PLUS, A-1000 4G x 5000, A1000/3G, A-1200/1100, A-1600/1350, A 1600, A-2000/1850, A-2000/2050, A 1000 CNC, A 800 CNC, and the A1000/2 token whose catalog descriptor reads CNC lathes. Two of the hub's three repeated designations are A machines, A1000 at two listings and A-1200 at two. Then there is the punctuation. A1000, A-1000 and A 1000 CNC are three separate strings in this catalog for what a seller reads off one plate as the same size class, and we scope all three the same way. The trailing numbers record capacity, not a published specification.

What Determines the Offer on a Used Gurutzpe

There is no blanket Gurutzpe number, and the catalog shows why: 81 distinct model designations across 85 listings, 78 of them appearing exactly once. Barely a machine in this book repeats, so each gets scoped on its own. Jason Puuri looks at the machine himself rather than running a formula. What he asks first is capacity as recorded on the data plate, which is what size-coded designations like SUPER BT 10000/800 and A-1000 4G x 5000 are recording. After that: spindle and way condition, whether the machine still holds tolerance, tailstock and steady-rest configuration, chuck and bar capacity, what tooling comes with it, and whether the control is serviceable enough to put back to work. Age is a question, not a disqualifier. Recorded build years here run 1978 to 2022 on the 19 listings that carry a year, so a machine from either end of that span is worth showing us.

AUTO, AT, and the Gurutzpe Machines That Are Not SUPER or A-Series

AUTO is the lathe-leaning family here: five listings, four filed CNC Lathes and one Metal Cutting, the strongest single-bucket lean the catalog records. AUTO M-S CNC and AUTO M-S CNC 6000 are two of the strings behind it. AT is recorded as a family at two listings, and the catalog does not record how those two are filed, so we do not guess. Past that the hub runs one string at a time: G-POWER/1550, G-POWER/2050, G-WIND/1850 and G-RAIL/1350 each appear once, and so do GLH25, GLH30 and GLX13, which are current Gurutzpe models, as does TIMEMASTER-SUPER, and AT 2000 is the listing whose catalog descriptor reads Parallel lathes. The payoff for a seller: 44 of the 85 listings sit in a family of one, and 78 of the 85 model strings appear exactly once, so "my model is not on your page" is the normal case here, not the exception. The designation on the plate is enough for us to place it.

Selling a Gurutzpe Outright Instead of Consigning or Auctioning It

Four routes exist for a used Gurutzpe and only one of them ends with the machine paid for and gone. Consignment leaves the money waiting on a buyer who has not appeared yet. An auction hands the number to whoever turns up on the day. A builder trade-in only exists if you are buying new at the same time. Machine Tool Exchange, a division of Superior Machine and Tool, buys the machine and owns it, with no listing, no broker, and nothing to purchase on your side. That holds for one lathe and for a whole row, and a row is still scoped machine by machine, which matters in a hub where 78 of 85 listings carry a designation that appears exactly once. We can arrange the rigging and freight. Tell us early if the machine is idle, apart, or still sitting on a lease or finance agreement, and closing goes faster.