Used Nidec Machine Tool Machines We Buy

What the Nidec Machine Tool Listings Actually Are

The machines filed under this name mostly were not built by Nidec Machine Tool Corporation itself. Most are Takisawa lathes (TAC, TAL, TCN, TT, TS and NEX models) and Minster stamping presses: CX1 and CX2 gap-frame presses, E2, P2 and SE straight-side presses, PM3 and PM4 laminating presses and DAC cupping presses. A smaller group are CHS servo coil feeders (MX-324, MXS-324), a few are Nidec Machine Tool's own MVR gantry machining centers, and the rest are Nidec electric motors, servo motors and spare parts.

Nidec is what ties them together, through two branches. On the machine tool side, Nidec Machine Tool Corporation is the former Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool business, which joined the Nidec Group in 2021, and in a March 2024 release Nidec named Nidec Machine Tool, Nidec OKK, PAMA and Takisawa Machine Tool as its four machine tool subsidiaries, describing Takisawa as a lathe maker that had joined Nidec the November before. On the press side, Nidec Drive Technology, formerly Nidec-Shimpo, acquired The Minster Machine Company in 2012 and CHS Automation in 2020. The sections below take each builder in turn.

Minster Presses: From Minster, Ohio, to Nidec

Minster presses come from The Minster Machine Company of Minster, Ohio. Nidec's release on the purchase gives the company as established in 1901, headquartered at 240 West Fifth Street in Minster, with principal places of business in Minster, in Halblech, Germany, and in Zhejiang, China, and describes its business as high-speed, high-rigidity precision press machines and dies. Nidec-Shimpo completed the purchase on April 2, 2012, US time, and Nidec now calls the company Nidec Minster Corporation.

Nidec Minster's own history goes further back, to a blacksmith shop. Anton Herkenhoff and Joseph Dues opened the Dues and Herkenhoff Machine Works in Minster in May of 1896, and by that November Anton had renamed it The Minster Machine Company. The first Minster mechanical press, a 45-ton open back inclinable press, was built in 1926. The first Pulsar press followed in 1981, for ultra-high-speed production of integrated circuits and electrical terminals, at speeds up to 2,000 strokes per minute. Nidec's current Minster list, in the table below, is shorter than the range of older Minster names we see on used presses.

Minster Press Series on Nidec's Current List

The Minster series on Nidec's own press page, with the description Nidec gives each. Used presses under this hub also carry older Minster names, such as CX1, CX2, E2, P2, SE2, SX2 and PM4, which this list does not cover:

From the MINSTER press page of Nidec's product catalog; the list covers current series only.

Takisawa Lathes, Built in Okayama

Takisawa is a Japanese lathe builder. Brothers Shusaku and Hichisaburo Takisawa set it up in Osaka in August 1922 to make drilling machines and lathes. It moved its headquarters to its Okayama plant in 1966 and began building lathes with numerical control in 1968. Takisawa started a US subsidiary in 1979; today TAKISAWA, INC., in Schaumburg, Illinois, handles sales support and technical service for Takisawa machines across the Americas, and Takisawa has run a technical center in the US since 2015.

Takisawa's own product list sorts its machines into CNC lathes, multi-tasking machines, a non-circular CNC lathe for pistons, a machining center, CNC/manual lathes and manual lathes, laid out in the table below. Older Japanese paperwork may use the name Takisawa Tekkousyo, which Takisawa changed to TAKISAWA as its Japanese trade name in 2022.

Takisawa Series by Type

Takisawa's English product page sorts its series this way. The letters at the front of a Takisawa model name are the series:

The LA, LS, NEX and VTL models under this hub are not on Takisawa's English product page.

Nidec Machine Tool Corporation, the Former Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool

Nidec Machine Tool's own history starts in 1939, when the Hiroshima plant of Toyo Machinery Company began making lathes; Toyo Machinery joined the Mitsubishi group in 1941. The business built its Ritto plant in Shiga Prefecture in 1983, bought the US broach maker Federal Broach Holdings in 2012, and was set up as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., Ltd., an independent business unit, in 2015. In 2021 it joined the Nidec Group as Nidec Machine Tool Corporation, a wholly owned Nidec subsidiary with its head office in Ritto.

Its own lines are gear machines and large milling and machining centers. Mitsubishi developed Japan's first NC gear hobbing machine in 1980, began selling its SuperDry GE-series hobbing machines in 2002, introduced the M-VR vertical precision milling machines in 1985 and the larger MVR-Fx series in 2016. Older machines from this line were sold under the Mitsubishi name, such as the Mitsubishi horizontal machining center MPA series of 1968. In the US, Nidec Machine Tool lists Nidec Machine Tool America LLC in Wixom, Michigan.

What Decides the Offer on a Used Minster or Takisawa

On a Minster press, start with the series on the plate. Nidec sells the P2H and E2H as high-speed, high-performance presses, the FX as a servo press and the DAC as a cupping press, so the series tells us what kind of stamping work the press was built for. Then come the size figures on the plate, clutch and brake condition, the press control, and whether a feeder or coil line goes with it.

On a Takisawa lathe, the series and the control matter most. In December 2025 Takisawa told owners of TAC-series lathes about a software issue in the copy-machining (profiling) cycle that can move the tool post toward the workpiece during retraction, and said it would make field updates to affected machines. If you are selling a TAC, tell us whether that update has been done.

Nidec Service Networks, or Selling Outright

Each of these builders still supports its machines. When Nidec bought Minster in 2012, it described Minster as having sales and service networks across North and South America and Europe. TAKISAWA, INC. provides technical service for Takisawa machines in the Americas from Schaumburg, Illinois, and Nidec Machine Tool's business includes installation, technical guidance and after-sales service, with Nidec Machine Tool America in Wixom, Michigan, as its US base. That is the route for a machine you plan to keep running. For a press, lathe or feeder you want gone, we buy it outright, and service records or a rebuild report are worth sending with the details.