Used Poreba Lathes and Machines We Buy

Who Makes Poreba Lathes

Poreba lathes come from Poland. The company building them today is POREBA Machine Tools Ltd., which calls itself the inheritor of the technical and marketing work of FUM POREBA Ltd. It was established in 2016, when RAFAMET S.A. bought the trademark PORĘBA 1798, all the design and technology documents FUM PORĘBA produced until 2015, every FUM PORĘBA product under its current and historical names, and all of the casting patterns. RAFAMET's own company history lists the acquisition of the POREBA trademark under 2016.

The 1798 in that trademark reaches back further than the lathes. Wikipedia says the first blast furnace in Poręba, a town in Silesian Voivodeship, was built in 1798, and that the local metal plant began manufacturing machine tools in the 1950s. Poreba itself describes its range as CNC super heavy-duty, heavy-duty and medium centre and floor-type lathes, plus large horizontal drilling machines and deep hole drilling and boring machines.

Where Poreba Machines Are Built Now

Poreba says its machines are machined and assembled in RAFAMET's assembly shops and partly in the former FUM PORĘBA manufacturing halls, which business partners lease. The heavy body castings that give these lathes their rigidity are made mainly at the RAFAMET Foundry, which Poreba says has cast them for the past 12 years. New development runs through RAFAMET's design offices, working with offices in Poręba and Zawiercie.

RAFAMET S.A. is the parent of the RAFAMET Group, a machine tool factory in Kuźnia Raciborska that builds special-purpose machines for wheelset machining. Inside the group, POREBA Machine Tools is the brand for centre and floor-type lathes and horizontal deep drilling machines. So a recent Poreba is a RAFAMET Group machine, while an older one came from the FUM PORĘBA factory whose drawings and patterns RAFAMET now holds.

Poreba the Polish Maker and Poreba the US Dealer

The Poreba name turns up on a second company. Poreba Machine Tool Company LLC is a US business that describes itself as a supplier and distributor of large manual lathes, CNC lathes, CNC horizontal boring mills, vertical mills and bridge mills, offering new equipment sales, parts, service, financing and appraisals. It says over 17,000 Poreba machine tools are in service worldwide, and it calls itself a supplier and distributor rather than the builder.

The factory side owns the name: Poreba reports that the trademark POREBA was registered in the United States on November 8, 2022, and that Machine Tool Factory RAFAMET S.A. is the sole owner of the mark. The listings under this hub are used machines carrying Poreba designations, mostly lathes with the Polish series names, plus boring mills and deep hole drills, and we read the data plate on each one to confirm what it is.

Poreba's Current Lathe Series

Poreba sorts its current lathes by how much weight they carry between centres, from the TRP and slant-bed TOK at the light end to the TTV at the top (the table below). The TRP series is rated for 5,600 Nm of spindle torque with turning lengths from 1 to 16 m, while the TCF heavy centre lathes run a three-guideway bed, 40,000 Nm and turning lengths from 3 to 25 m.

Poreba also still offers a conventional, non-CNC lathe. It advertised a new TR 135 horizontal lathe for immediate purchase with a turning length of 6m, a swing over bed of 1350 mm, matching the 135 in the name, and 6000 mm between centres. That is the same TR family that leads the used listings on this hub.

Poreba Lathe Series by Workpiece Weight

Poreba's current product menu, which lists these six series, groups its lathes by the most weight each carries between centres:

From the product menu on fum-poreba.com. Older series names found on used machines, such as TR, TPK and TCG, are not on this menu; Poreba says RAFAMET acquired every FUM PORĘBA product under its current and historical names.

What Moves the Offer on a Used Poreba

On a Poreba the capacity matters more than the badge. The weight class, swing and turning length set how many shops can use the machine, and Poreba's own spec pages lead with exactly those figures. Next is what was fitted at the factory: Poreba says its TRP lathes can be supplied as horizontal machining centres with turning, drilling and milling, carrying an automatic turret, tool attachments, tool and workpiece measuring systems, a controlled C axis and workpiece steady rests. A lathe with a C axis and a turret is a different machine from a bare conventional TR, even at the same swing.

Overhaul history is the third question. Poreba's service arm rebuilds older machines, reconditioning the basic components and doing electrical repairs with control system upgrades, so a Poreba that has had a factory modernisation, or a newer CNC fitted, should say so in the details you send us.

Poreba Overhauls and Service, or Selling Outright

Poreba backs its machines with commissioning, adjustment, maintenance, warranty and post-warranty repairs, changes to the CNC system software, operator and maintenance training, and spare parts for all POREBA machines. Within the group, RAFAMET Service & Trade handles after-sale technical support, repairs and modernisations. That route makes sense for a heavy lathe you plan to keep turning shafts on for years.

For a Poreba you want off the floor, selling it outright is quicker than scheduling an overhaul. Any service paperwork, from a factory modernisation to a control upgrade, belongs in the details you send us.

What Is in the Poreba Book Right Now

This is a single brand hub. Every one of the 804 listings is a Poreba, and that count is exact, not sampled. Turning dominates it: 712 of the 804 are filed as CNC Lathes, which is 88.6 percent, leaving 92 machines that are something else. The more useful number for an owner is 783 distinct models across those 804 listings. Repeats are almost nonexistent, so nearly every unit here got scoped on its own configuration rather than matched against a comparable sitting next to it. Site wide, Poreba is 13th of the 126 brands we track, which puts it outside the top ten and makes it deep for what it is rather than a headline brand. Of the listings that carry a build year, the span runs 1970 to 2026, but only 214 of the 804 rows carry a year at all, so on any specific machine the data plate is what settles it.

The TR Line, 140 of 804 Listings

TR is the largest model family in this book at 140 listings, and it is not purely a turning family. Those 140 split 134 CNC Lathes, 5 CNC Vertical Turret Lathes and 1 CNC Miscellaneous machine, which means every VTL in the hub comes out of TR. The separate TR-prefixed roll-ups sit alongside it rather than inside it: TRP at 54, all 54 filed as lathes, then TR2 at 14, TRB at 14, TRD at 13, TR135 at 12, TR1 at 8 (all lathes), TR135B2 at 8, TR2S at 8, TRP110 at 7 and TRP93 at 6. These are the groupings we see most in our own catalog, not a manufacturer product line taxonomy, and they are not one running total. Repeat units are rare enough here to name individually: the bare TR string shows up four times and TRP three, then TR 100 B ID, TRP110/4M, TRP110/4M ID, TRD-40/6/3M ID, TR-135 and TR-40/12 twice each, and beyond that handful the TR units are effectively one of a kind.

TPK, TCG and the Rest of the Turning Families

Past the TR prefixes, the turning book runs TPK at 78, TCG at 70, TCF at 23, PNA at 19, TH2 at 16, TZG at 11 and TCA at 10, then a tail of TCC 7, TC2B 6, CN 6, TPK80A 6, TCE 5, THG 5 and TPL 5. What is worth noticing is that a prefix does not tell you what the machine actually is. TPK splits 76 lathes, 1 CNC Horizontal Boring Mill and 1 miscellaneous. TCG splits 67 lathes and 3 miscellaneous. PNA splits 17 lathes, 1 horizontal boring mill and 1 vertical machining center. TCF and TH2 are the clean ones, 23 and 16, all lathes. That is exactly why we scope on the serial number and the data plate instead of the model prefix. Repeat strings on this side include TPK at five listings, TCG-160, TCG 160 X 11M ID, TPK-90A1/3M and THG-660/2200 ID. Beyond those, repeats are scarce: 783 distinct models cover the 804 listings.

The 92 Poreba Listings That Are Not Lathes

Subtract the 712 lathes and 92 machines are left, and this is where an owner with a boring mill or a gantry lives. The complete split is 31 CNC Horizontal Boring Mills, 16 CNC Deep Hole Drilling Machines, 15 CNC Gantry and Portal Mills, 13 CNC Miscellaneous Machines, 5 CNC Vertical Turret Lathes, 3 CNC Vertical Boring Mills, 2 CNC Boring Mills, 2 CNC Vertical Machining Centers, 2 CNC Gear Machinery, and one each of CNC Band Saws, CNC Rotary Tables and CNC Vertical Lathes. The three boring rows are separate: 36 carry a boring label, but only 31 are horizontal. Families map onto this in places. HBM is 15 listings, all 15 horizontal boring mills, and HBM4 adds 4 more. WFA is 4, split 2 plain boring mills and 2 horizontal. FBA is 7, six of them gantry and portal mills. FBS is 3, and WR2 is 4 deep hole drilling machines.

Capacity Lives in the Model Number, So Have This Ready

783 distinct models across 804 listings means the designation alone almost never matches a prior sale, so swing, distance between centers and bed length do the work. On Poreba those figures usually sit inside the designation itself. TR1-72/8000, TH2-125/9000, TCG 160 X 11M ID, TPK 800x2000 and TRP110/4M all read as capacity once you know the format. Have this ready when you call: data plate model and serial, build year (worth pulling, since only 214 of our 804 catalog rows carry one), swing and distance between centers, control make and generation, steady rests and tooling, and whether it is still under power. Photos are optional but they speed things up: the control screen, the data plate, and one wide shot of the floor placement. That last shot matters more here than on a typical VMC, because the rigging plan gets built off the real footprint. Jason Puuri weighs these himself instead of running a formula, and a quote is usually back in 24 to 48 hours.

Selling a Poreba Outright Instead of Listing It

Machine Tool Exchange buys. We are not a broker, an auction platform or a listing service, so you are selling to us, not waiting on us to find a third party. No listing, no broker, and the offer comes directly from us. We are an affiliate of Superior Machine and Tool, buying and selling used CNC equipment since 2012. Condition is not a gate: running production, sitting idle or needing work all get evaluated, and saying which upfront keeps the scope accurate. One machine or a whole floor works the same way, but each unit gets scoped on its own model, control and condition, because 783 distinct models across 804 listings leave nothing to average against. If the floor is mixed, other brands ride on the same quote and pickup schedule. Mazak, Okuma, Doosan, DMG MORI, Toshiba, Makino, Haas, Fanuc and Amada are all brands we buy and hold elsewhere on the site. We can arrange rigging, crating and freight nationwide, and we can arrange the pickup.