Used Liechti Machines We Buy

Who Makes Liechti Machines, and Who Owns Liechti Now

Liechti was founded in 1865 in Langnau im Emmental, Switzerland, as a maker of agricultural equipment, and its headquarters is still there. By the early 1900s it was building conventional lathes and milling machines in Langnau, and in 1983 it began to specialise in single- and multi-spindle milling machines for turbine blades, impellers and other complex curved surfaces. Liechti puts its staff at around 120 people.

Ownership has changed twice in recent years. Liechti became part of GF Machining Solutions in 2014, and in 2025 GF sold it to the United Grinding Group. Liechti now sits in the United Machining division of United Machining Solutions, beside Agie Charmilles, Mikron Mill, Step Tec and System 3R, and its legal entity is United Machining Mill AG. Paperwork for a Liechti bought before that sale may carry the GF Machining Solutions name.

Liechti Milestones from Its Own History

The machine and ownership milestones on Liechti's history page, in order. The list runs to 2025:

From Liechti's own history page. The same page traces the company back to its founding in 1865 as an agricultural equipment maker, conventional lathes and milling machines from the early 1900s, and butchery equipment from the 1950s, a line Liechti later sold.

Liechti's Lines: Turbomill for Blades, g-MILL and go-MILL for Rotors

Every machine on Liechti's milling-machines page, as we read it for this page, is a five-axis machining center for airfoils. Blade work runs on the Turbomill family: the TurboMILL 500g, the 800g and 1400g, the 800i and 1400i, and the 2000gx and 2600gx, plus the compact go-MILL 350 for small blades. Rotors and blisks go on the g-MILL 850, 1150 and 1350, the g-MILL 1000 and the go-MILL 800.

A Turbomill takes bar stock through an automated bar feeder and swings its head from -90° to +90°, so a blade is milled, turned, root-machined and engraved in one setup. The g-MILL and go-MILL rotor machines instead use a tilted rotary table with a horizontal spindle to rough and finish the airfoil, hub and shroud in a single setup. All of them are programmed in Liechti's own Turbosoft plus CAM software.

What Sets the Offer on a Used Liechti

A Liechti is a dedicated airfoil machine, so its next owner is a blade or rotor shop, and the offer turns on how ready the machine is for that work. Size comes first. Liechti rates its blade machines by workzone length, up to 1400 mm on the TurboMILL 800i and 1400i and up to 2600 mm on the 2000gx and 2600gx, and its rotor machines by part diameter, up to 1350 mm on the g-MILL 850, 1150 and 1350. Generation comes next: Liechti launched its first Turbomill with g-technology in 2008, so the g in a Turbomill's name helps date it.

Then the process package. Liechti sells its machines as turnkey solutions with application-specific tooling, fixturing and Turbosoft plus programming, so a used one that still has its bar feeder, fixtures and part programs is an easier machine to place than a bare one. Liechti also runs modernization and overhaul programs, and the record of one belongs in what you send us.

Where the Liechti Machines We See Fit

The Liechti machines that come to us are mostly Turbomills, from the Turbomill I and Turbomill G to the 800G, the 1400G Twin and the 2600XL, along with go-MILL 350 blade machines, G-Mill rotor machines and a Turboblisk. Some of those names are not on Liechti's current milling-machines page, the Turboblisk and the 2600XL among them. Liechti introduced the Turboblisk in 1997 for dynamic five- and six-axis machining, which puts it among the older designs in the family, and on machines like these the plate and controller tell a buyer most of what matters.

When Liechti Customer Care Fits, and When a Sale Does

Liechti Customer Care covers a machine across its whole life with preventive maintenance contracts, retrofit and overhaul programs, spare parts and operator training. That route makes sense for a Liechti that still has blade or rotor work ahead of it. When the work has run out, MTE buys the machine itself, and Liechti maintenance records make the scoping quicker.

What Is in the Liechti Listings We Hold

Vertical machining centers carry this hub. Nine of the 14 Liechti listings filed here sit under CNC Vertical Machining Centers, close to two thirds of the book. The remaining five split three ways: 2 under CNC 5-Axis Machining Centers, 2 under CNC Milling Machines, and 1 under CNC Miscellaneous Machines, which is a catalog bucket rather than a kind of machine. That split is complete and sums to 14. Every row carries the Liechti nameplate, and no second brand appears in this hub at all. Recorded build years run 2007 to 2011, but only 5 of the 14 listings record a year, so 9 carry none, which is why the plate on your machine outranks any catalog date. One more row-level fact, stated plainly rather than tidied away: among the fourteen catalog titles here, one reads as a mixer rather than a machining center. We quote the rows as they actually are.

Turbomill, Go-Mill and the Model Names on These Rows

A shop hunting a Liechti types the designation, not the category. Normalising spacing and case, the fourteen rows here carry these names: Turbomill 2600XL, Turbomill 1400G Twin, Turbomill 800G, Turbomill I, Turbomill G, Go-Mill 350, Go-Mill, Turboblisk 1005, G-Mill 850, G-Mill 550 and PST. Grouped by designation: Turbomill 6, Go-Mill 4, G-Mill 2, Turboblisk 1 and PST 1, which reconciles to 14. Go-Mill 350 accounts for three of those rows on its own, spelled three different ways, and Turbomill 1400G Twin covers two. The catalog's own model-family field keys on the leading token and reads TURBOMILL 6 and GO 3, because the solid-spelled Gomill row falls outside the GO bucket on spelling alone. Those two families cover 9 of the 14 listings: Turbomill splits 3 vertical machining centers, 2 CNC milling machines and 1 5-axis machine, and GO splits 2 vertical machining centers and 1 5-axis machine, so between them they cover both milling rows and both 5-axis rows.

What Determines the Offer on a Used Liechti

Model and designation group come first, because a Turboblisk 1005 and a G-Mill 550 are different conversations under one nameplate. Year comes next, and this hub shows exactly why we ask for it: 9 of the 14 listings here record no build year at all, so the data plate settles what a catalog line cannot. Then spindle hours, and a straight answer on whether the machine still holds tolerance. Control type and generation weigh heavily, since parts and service availability decides how fast a buying shop can put the machine back into production. List the tooling and accessories that travel with it. On the 5-axis rows, axis and rotary configuration moves the number by itself. Photos of the control screen and the work envelope speed things up and are not required. Jason Puuri scopes the machine and puts the number on the table himself, usually inside 24 to 48 hours.

Discontinued Model Lines and Why That Does Not Rule Out an Offer

The catalog flags 7 of these 14 listings as discontinued models: Turbomill 2600XL, Gomill 350, Turboblisk 1005, G-Mill 850, G-Mill 550, Turbomill I and Turbomill G. That is exactly half the rows here, and the owner of one has often already decided nobody will buy it. That decision is premature. A discontinued model line does not rule out an offer. What matters is whether the machine still holds tolerance, and whether parts and service for the control it runs are still reasonably available, because that governs how quickly a shop could put it back to work. The model number off the data plate is enough for us to place the machine before anyone discusses a number. On an older unit, factory documentation is not always easy to track down, so a couple of photos showing the overall footprint and how the machine sits in the bay are worth more than a spec sheet.

What to Have Ready Before You Call

Two things shorten the call. First the machine: model number off the data plate, year, control type and generation, spindle hours if they are tracked, condition including whether it still holds tolerance, table size and axis travel, a tooling list, and a couple of photos of the control screen and the work envelope. Second the paperwork: a bill of sale or other proof the company owns the machine outright, rather than still paying it off under a lease or finance agreement, speeds closing once you accept an offer, because we confirm ownership before scheduling pickup. Be clear who you are dealing with. Machine Tool Exchange is not a broker and not a listing service. There is no listing and no broker, and you sell to us rather than waiting while we find a third party. MTE is an affiliate of Superior Machine and Tool, active in the used CNC market since 2012.

Rigging, Payment and Clearing More Than One Machine

We can arrange rigging, crating, freight and the pickup. We buy outright. We buy in all 50 states. Condition is not a filter: a Liechti running production, a Liechti idle since the job that justified it ended, and a Liechti that needs work before it cuts again all get scoped and quoted. One machine and a full floor go on the same terms, and pulling several machines out during a changeover does not mean lumping them into one blanket number, since each is still scoped on its own hours, control and condition. If the floor you are clearing is mixed, the Liechti does not travel alone. We buy Mazak, Makino, DMG Mori and Okuma equipment on the same quote and pickup, so a changeover stays one conversation instead of four.