Used Hyundai WIA Machines We Buy

Who Makes Hyundai WIA Machine Tools

Hyundai WIA Corp. is a Korean manufacturer founded in 1976, with its headquarters in Changwon. It began producing machine tools in 1977, a year after it was founded, and its history credits it with developing the first machining center made in Korea in 1983. Today the company also builds automobile parts, robotics and defense equipment, and by its own figures it ranked first in Korea and tenth in the world for machine tool sales in 2018.

Its machine tool plants grew in Changwon, where its history records an expansion of the Changwon Machine Tool Factory in 2010, and in China, where it completed a machine tools plant in 2008 and a second machine tools factory in Jiangsu in 2011. The company set up a local subsidiary in the USA in 1989.

From Kia Heavy Industry to Hyundai WIA

The company and machine tool milestones on Hyundai WIA's history pages, oldest first, which help date the name on an older plate:

From the decade pages of Hyundai WIA's history, which run to 2025; they give no date for the WIA Machine Tools site.

WIA Machine Tools: The Name on the Machine Tool Site Today

Hyundai WIA's own site lists WIA MACHINE TOOLS among its linked sites, and that separate machine tool site calls itself a machine tool specialist that is making a fresh start with a greater vision, from proprietary design through production and after-sales service. Its pages carry the name WIA MACHINE TOOLS Corp. Neither site, on the pages we saved, says who owns that business or when the name took over, so we do not guess.

The name itself is not new. Hyundai WIA's history already lists the opening of the 4th exhibition of WIA Machine Tools in 2006. For a seller, nothing changes: the listings on this page sit under Hyundai WIA, and a machine badged WIA belongs here too.

Hyundai WIA Lines, Controls and What Decides the Offer

Hyundai WIA groups its machine tools as CNC turning centers, machining centers and smart software. Its history marks a few of them: a vertical lathe, the CX-1, jointly developed with a Japanese partner in 1997; a prize for the HS500 horizontal machining center in 2006; and production of the XF6300 5-axis machine in 2017. In 2016 it developed HYUNDAI iTROL, its own CNC controller, so the control on a Hyundai WIA is worth naming exactly when you ask for an offer.

On the turning side, WIA Machine Tools describes a one-piece slant bed in two lineups: LM-guide models for high-speed mass production and box-guide models with more torque for heavy cutting. That split matters to the next owner, so it matters to the price, along with chuck size, live tooling and a sub-spindle. On machining centers and horizontals, pallet automation counts: WIA Machine Tools offers an automatic workpiece changer, a multi-pallet system and a pallet line system, and a machine that leaves with its pallets is worth more than the bare machine.

The Hyundai WIA Models We Are Asked About

The Hyundai WIA model pages on this site are mostly lathes, the KIT4500, L230LMSA, L300A, L500LMA and L2100SY, plus the F400, F400VM and XF6300 vertical machining centers and the KBN135C horizontal boring mill. The searches that reach our listings follow the same pattern, led by the F400 and the XF6300, which Hyundai WIA presents on its own site as a 5-axis vertical machining center. The first page of our Hyundai WIA listings adds SE-series lathes, i-CUT drilling and tapping centers and KH horizontals.

Hyundai WIA Service, or Selling Outright

For a machine you keep, service now runs through WIA Machine Tools, whose service guide describes an integrated call center that takes a request from first call to dispatch, backed by service information, parts supply, technical training and engineers. That is the route for a Hyundai WIA you plan to keep cutting. For one you want gone, we buy it outright, and the service records from those visits are worth sending with the details.