Used Multicam Machines We Buy

Who Makes MultiCam Machines

MultiCam machines come from MultiCam Inc., founded in 1989, which describes its products as Made-in-America, built from American made steel and components. Its headquarters is in Dallas, Texas, with its Americas office on West Royal Lane at DFW Airport, and MultiCam says its newest router, the STRATA One, is built there. Every machine is made to order, and MultiCam puts its deliveries at more than 15,000.

In August 2021, Kongsberg Precision Cutting Systems acquired MultiCam Inc. Kongsberg PCS is owned in turn by OpenGate Capital, a private equity firm headquartered in Los Angeles. The routers, waterjets and flatbed cutters are still sold under the MultiCam name on MultiCam's own site.

From Five Cutting Platforms to Three

An archived copy of MultiCam's earlier home page shows a full line of CNC cutting systems on five platforms: CNC router, laser, plasma, waterjet and knife. It aimed the plasma machines at manufacturing, structural steel and HVAC work, and pitched the 3000 Series router to small and medium manufacturers.

The Company page MultiCam runs today lists a narrower portfolio: 3-axis routers, 3-axis waterjet tables, digital finishing knife systems and CNC software. Plasma and laser tables are not on that list, which is worth knowing if you own one. They still carry the MultiCam name on the plate, and we still make offers on them.

MultiCam's Current Lines and Controls

MultiCam's router range now starts with the Apex1R, which it aims at small businesses and shops, with cut speeds up to 1,380 inches per minute on the Gen 2. Next is the Apex3R Evo, launched at the PRINTING United expo in September 2024, and at the heavy end the 5000 Series, with spindle options from 5.5 up to 20 HP. The STRATA One, announced on September 23, 2026, brings a newly developed Pegasus controller running Coreo operator software and comes in five table sizes.

Beside the routers, the 1000 Series is a water-only waterjet that runs KMT intensifiers, and the Celero 4 Series is a flatbed knife cutter rated to 4,000 inches per minute. The 5000 Series page names the MultiCam EZ Control interface and EZ G-Code software as its operator platform, so the control screen on your machine shows which side of the Pegasus change it sits on.

MultiCam 5000 Series Table Codes

MultiCam names each 5000 Series table by a three-digit code. These are the four its 5000 Series page lists, with the size in inches:

From MultiCam's current 5000 Series page, which also gives each size in millimeters. Older MultiCam lines may use other codes, so send the plate and a measurement of the table.

Table Codes, Heads and Spindles on a MultiCam

On a MultiCam router the table code settles the bed size before anyone pulls a tape, and the table below gives the codes MultiCam publishes for the 5000 Series. After the table, the number turns on spindle horsepower, whether the gantry carries the 12-position rotary tool carousel or a knife and tapping head, and what control is fitted.

The cutters and waterjets have their own checkpoints. On a Celero, the 5.1HP vacuum blower and its four vacuum zones are part of the machine. On a 1000 Series waterjet, the intensifier pump counts as much as the table, so tell us its make and condition.

The MultiCam Families That Reach Us

Most MultiCams that owners bring us are routers: the 3000 Series, the 5000 Series, MG machines and the Apex1R and Apex3R, with Celero cutters and plasma tables behind them. MultiCam calls the 5000 Series a long-standing favorite in the industry, and says the Apex1R has always been a top choice for buyers after value. The Celero name is current too: MultiCam sells the Celero 4 Series today as a flatbed cutter for the signage, display and packaging trades.

Keeping a MultiCam Under Support, or Selling It

MultiCam puts its support network at 30 locations worldwide, with 10 Technology Centers across North America, fewer than the over 60 Technology Centers worldwide, 20 of them in North America, that its earlier home page listed. It also offers MultiCam Financial to US buyers, plus application and EnRoute training. A MultiCam with years of production left in it is well served by that network. One that has become surplus we buy outright, and an options list or a record of recent service work helps us scope it.

What Is in the Multicam Book Right Now

All 220 listings here are Multicams across 150 distinct models, and 110 of the 220 are the only listing carrying their model, so nearly every unit gets scoped on its own. 98 sit under the broad Metal Cutting parent heading, not a specific machine type. Of those filed under a named type, routers lead at 46: 40 labelled CNC Routers plus 6 labelled CNC Router. Next is the catch-all CNC Miscellaneous Machines at 25. Plasma comes to 23 across four differently named categories: CNC Plasma Cutters 15, CNC Plasma Cutting Machines 4, CNC Plasma Tables 3 and CNC Plasma Cutting Machine 1. Then CNC Vertical Machining Centers (VMC) 10, lasers 6 across three names, waterjets 4, CNC Gantry & Portal Mills 4. Listings that carry a build year run 1998 to 2026. That tangle of labels holds the point: one machine gets filed several ways, so you need not decide whether yours is a plasma cutter, a plasma table or a plasma cutting machine before calling. Send the data plate.

The 3000 Series, and Why One Platform Wears Three Heads

The 3000 is the largest model family in this hub at 47 of the 220 listings, more than a fifth of the book, and the next families down sit at 13 each. Most of it lands in three categories, 23 Metal Cutting, 9 CNC Routers and 4 CNC Miscellaneous Machines, which covers 36 of the 47. The repeat strings behind that number are a bare 3000 at 13, 3000 SERIES at 5, 3000 Series at 5 and 3000-SERIES at 3. The catalog itself shows one platform designation carrying different cutting heads: 3000 SERIES PLASMA, 3000 SERIES WATERJET and 3000 HYDEFINITION are all real model strings in this hub, sitting alongside the 9 units in the family filed under CNC Routers. So when an owner says they have a 3000, the next question is which head it carries. A router spindle, a plasma torch and a waterjet head are three different machines sharing one table designation.

The Rest of the Multicam Families We Hold

Past the 3000, the roll-up runs like this. The 5000 sits at 13 and leans router, 7 filed as CNC Routers against 6 Metal Cutting. The 1000 also sits at 13, 9 of them filed as 4 Metal Cutting, 3 CNC Plasma Cutters and 2 CNC Routers. MG carries 12, with MG204 and MG205 tracked separately at 3 each. CELERO holds 10 and APEX 8, with APEX3R at 7 and APEX1R at 4 counted separately, not folded in. GRAPH shows 7 and the 6000 shows 5. The 2000 sits at 4 and is the only laser-led family among the 15 the catalog splits out: 2 CNC Laser Cutting Machines, 1 CNC Laser Machines, 1 vertical machining center. At 2 each: MT, 48, 7000, 8000, MULTI, QUANTUS, MAGNUS and M204. Plenty of units carry no family bucket: 3-204-R at 4, V at 3, 1-204-R-PF and 7-209-R at 2 each, plus one-offs 3-204-P, V-204-P, V-Series 204 and M100 Series. Others carry no model designation past the brand name.

What Moves the Number on a Used Multicam

On many of these the table designation sits in the model string. MG204, MG205, MG-204, 3-204-R, 3-204-P, 1-204-R-PF, V-204-P and 7-209-R all carry the same repeating numeric pattern, so one photo of the data plate gets us most of the way there. A cutting table then scopes in order. What the head is comes first, since this hub spans router, plasma, laser and waterjet categories. Then drive and rail condition on a gantry that has run its life over a fixed table. Then the control and software generation, then whether it holds tolerance across the full table, not just the home corner. And the one specific to a cutting table: support equipment is part of the machine. A router without its vacuum pump and dust collection, or a plasma table without its power supply and fume extraction, is a different purchase from a complete cell. Jason Puuri weighs that himself rather than running a formula, and a quote comes back within 24 to 48 hours.

Have This Ready Before You Call

Data plate model and serial first. Then what the head is, the one question an owner can answer without looking anything up: router spindle, plasma torch, waterjet or laser. Then the table designation off the model number, and table size if the plate lacks it. Control make and generation. Build year: 193 of the 220 listings here carry one, so a year is the norm and a missing one slows the scope down. Then whether the support equipment goes or stays: vacuum pump, dust collection, plasma power supply, waterjet intensifier pump and abrasive hopper, chiller and air dryer. And whether the machine is still under power. Photos are not required but speed things up: the control screen, the data plate, and one wide shot far enough back to show the whole table, because the footprint is the table and its material handling, not the gantry alone. MTE can arrange rigging, crating and freight in all 50 states.

Selling a Multicam Direct Instead of Listing It

MTE buys outright. We are not a broker, an auction platform, a consignment house or a listing service, so you sell to us rather than wait on us to find a buyer. No listing, no broker, and the pickup arranged for you. MTE is an affiliate of Superior Machine Tools in Lansing, Michigan, buying nationwide. On a cutting table that matters more than usual: the table, its pump, its dust collection or fume extraction, its chiller and its tooling all go on one quote and one pickup schedule instead of being unbundled. Mixed floors work the same way: other brands we buy go on the same quote. A Multicam that is not a cutting table still gets an offer, and this hub proves it: 10 listings are filed as CNC Vertical Machining Centers (VMC), one a CNC Milling Machine, one a CNC Lathe, one Automation & Control and one Automation & Inspection.