Used PAMA Machines We Buy

Who Makes PAMA Machines

PAMA machines are built by PAMA S.p.A., based in Trentino and headquartered in Rovereto, Italy. PAMA says it has been in the machine tool market for 100 years, with its know-how centred on boring machines and milling centers, and it reported on its centenary celebration on 21 July 2026.

PAMA has three production sites: two in Italy, at Rovereto and Brescia, and one in Shanghai that serves the Chinese market. Over 350 people work at Rovereto, where design, engineering, assembly and production take place, and PAMA machines its main structures in-house on its own boring mills and machining centres. In 2022 Nidec Corporation moved to acquire PAMA, which now runs under Nidec's management and coordination while, in PAMA's words, remaining independent within the group. Its sales and service branches include one in the United States.

PAMA's Current Lines

PAMA's product pages group its current machines four ways. The horizontal boring and milling machines are the floor-type Speedram, built for maximum damping, rigidity and spindle torque; the Speedram HP, with high spindle speed instead; and the Speedmill B. The horizontal Speedmill milling machine has a central headstock. The Speedmat machining centers come as the Speedmat VM with a gantry structure and the Speedmat HP, Speedmat RAM and Speedmat with a T-type structure. The gantry machining centers are the Vertiram TT, with a travelling table, and the Vertiram GT, with a travelling gantry, both also offered in a multitasking version.

On its boring mills PAMA uses roller guideways for high dynamics or hydrostatic guideways for maximum metal removal, and a hydrostatic ram for damping and long-term precision. PAMA also says it never builds the same machine twice, so the plate designation and the options list tell us more than the family name does.

Reading a PAMA Before We Quote It

A used PAMA is placed first by its structure: a floor-type Speedram boring mill, a T-type Speedmat center or a Vertiram gantry. On the boring mills we then look at the ram and the ways, since PAMA builds its long-term precision on a hydrostatic ram and, on the larger models, hydrostatic guideways, and at whether the spindle is the high-torque Speedram or the high-speed HP build.

The equipment that goes with the machine counts as much. PAMA sells milling and turning tables, steady rests, tool magazines and attachment head magazines for its machines, and the attachment heads themselves decide much of what a boring mill can take on. List every head, table and magazine that stays with the machine, and tell us about any PAMA overhaul or retrofit on record.

PAMA Models in Our Book

Most of the PAMA machines we see are SPEEDRAM floor-type boring mills, in several sizes and generations, followed by SPEEDMAT centers. Older designations come through too: AC and ACC boring mills, an AL, an OMA, an FT and an FMC, none of which appear on PAMA's current product pages. An older ACC is still worth sending, because we scope each PAMA on its own build, heads and condition rather than on whether its name is still in PAMA's catalog.

PAMA Service and Retrofits, or Selling Outright

PAMA supports its machines through their service life, from remote service and maintenance to a partial or complete retrofit, and it offers overhaul at several levels, from replacing components up to a full retrofit. Its technicians also handle machine transfer: disassembly, shipment, reassembly and commissioning at a new site. That route fits a PAMA you are keeping or moving. If you want it off your floor for good, MTE buys it outright as a direct buyer.