Used Samputensili Gear Machines We Buy

Who Makes Samputensili Machines

Samputensili began in 1949 as a spin-off and independent division of SAMP, set up to make gear cutting tools. Its later website names SAMP S.p.A., Bologna, as the company behind it. Its history page says its first customer was the Italian Air Force. Machines came later: in the block that page labels '70 - '80, it lists the first Samputensili chamfering machine, the first Samputensili gear grinding machine and the founding of Samputensili America.

In 2010 a new Technology Centre in Bentivoglio, near Bologna, took in all of the group's European manufacturing plants. In January 2016 Samputensili split into two independent companies, Samputensili Machine Tools S.r.l. and Samputensili Cutting Tools S.r.l. In 2019 the machine company acquired CLC, an Italian builder of hobbing and shaping machines, which became Samputensili CLC.

On February 3, 2021, the EMAG Group, a machine builder from southern Germany, acquired Samputensili Machine Tools and Samputensili CLC, with 87 employees at two sites near Bologna and Reggio Emilia. Both went into a new company, EMAG SU Srl. EMAG says final assembly of the machines stays in northern Italy, and in June 2022 it opened a new EMAG SU production plant in Anzola, Bologna.

Samputensili's Machine Lines

Samputensili describes itself as traditionally expert in hard finishing and in chamfering and deburring. The last machines page it published before the EMAG purchase grouped the range into chamfering and deburring, generating grinding, profile grinding, screw profile grinding, shaving and tool resharpening. The table below lists the models on that page.

Hobbing came into the group twice. In the 2000 - 2009 block of its history, Samputensili lists Samputensili Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH, founded in eastern Germany in 1900 by Robert Hermann Pfauter, which completed its product line with gear hobbing machines. The 2010 entry says the Chemnitz plant was sold to MAG Group. From 2019, Samputensili CLC built horizontal gear hobbing machines for shafts and long workpieces, plus vertical shaping machines, in Cadelbosco di Sopra.

Samputensili Machines on the Maker's Last Pre-EMAG List

The machine lines and models on Samputensili's own machines page, in the last archived copy before the EMAG purchase:

From Samputensili's machines page (archived copy, web.archive.org). The list stops at what that page showed; models EMAG SU added after the sale are not included, and older machines such as the S-series hobbers on this hub do not appear on it.

What We Look At on a Used Samputensili

The offer on a Samputensili follows the features the maker built it around. Samputensili lists direct drives, linear motors and integrated measuring and dressing units among the standard equipment on many of its machines, so tell us which of those your machine has and whether they work.

On a profile grinder, EMAG notes that a variety of spindles, each with its own power, was offered for different grinding wheel sizes and types, so the spindle fitted matters. On a RASO shaving machine, the shaving methods it can run, from plunge and transverse to underpass and diagonal, depend on the model and its axis configuration. On an SCT3 chamfering and deburring machine, list the tooling for both tool heads. Tooling that goes with any of these machines counts toward the number.

Samputensili Service, or Selling Outright

Samputensili's machine service page offered preventive maintenance, rebuilds and retrofits, CNC upgrades, machine realignment and machine relocation. In North America, Samputensili and Star Cutter, a Michigan company, formed the joint venture Star SU LLC in 2002, at first to handle sales and distribution of Samputensili machines and tools there. Since the 2021 sale, EMAG says its sales and service organization supplements and expands Samputensili's own.

That route makes sense for a machine you plan to keep running. For one you want off the floor, we buy it outright, and records of a rebuild, retrofit or CNC upgrade are worth sending with the details.

What Sits in the Samputensili Listings Right Now

Seventy-seven Samputensili listings sit in this hub, and 67 of them fall under CNC Gear Machinery. The other ten split four ways: 4 under CNC Miscellaneous Machines, 4 under CNC Grinding Machines, 1 under CNC Milling Machines, and 1 under CNC Tool & Cutter Grinders. All five counts are exact. That is the complete category breakdown, not a sample. The number worth pausing on is 72 distinct models inside 77 listings, which is close to one model per listing. Samputensili ranks 45th of the 126 brands in this catalog by listing count, so it is a narrow specialty book rather than a volume nameplate, and the honest angle is breadth inside that specialty rather than depth. If you work by machine type instead of by maker, the gear work indexes under CNC Gear Machinery and the small tails under CNC Grinding Machines, CNC Milling Machines and CNC Tool & Cutter Grinders.

The Gear Machine Types in the Samputensili Book

The catalog's own Type field names seven distinct kinds of Samputensili machine across these listings. Gear Hobbers cover S130, S150, S160, S 100 and S-750. Gear Grinders cover G 160, G 250, G 375 H and GT 500 H, plus GR 500 H and GRX 500 H, which Samputensili itself calls screw profile grinders, with S375G and S380GRX filed under Grinding, gear grinding machines. Gear Deburrers cover SU SML F15, S 250 CDA and SCT-3. Gear Shavers cover RSB 14 CN and RSB/14. SM2TA shows up as a Gear Tooth Chamfering Machine. Thread Grinders cover RI370 SERIE 10 and RCLR, and RCR CNC is listed as a Hob Grinder. Those last two types are worth reading against the category split, where 4 listings sit under CNC Grinding Machines and 1 under CNC Tool & Cutter Grinders, and STC-3 is filed under Milling, miscellaneous milling machines. Those type labels come from the catalog's own field rather than from a guess made off the model number.

Model Families, and Why 72 Models Fit in 77 Listings

Roll up the leading token on every model number and nine groups appear more than once: SU at 8, SM2TA at 7, SCT at 6, SCT3 at 4, then S375G, S130, RSB, S250 and S200 at 2 each. Those nine cover 35 listings, which leaves 42 whose leading token shows up exactly once. No family dominates. SU is the largest token at 8 of 77, and it is a token rather than a product line: it spans a deburrer in SU SML F15 and a separate SU-SM2TA plate, and its 8 listings break out as 6 CNC Gear Machinery, 1 CNC Grinding Machines and 1 CNC Miscellaneous Machines. SM2TA is tidier, 7 of 7 under CNC Gear Machinery. SCT at 6 and SCT3 at 4 are separate tokens here, counted separately. The practical read: most Samputensili model numbers appear here once, not by the dozen, so an unfamiliar plate number is normal.

What Determines the Offer on a Used Samputensili

A gear machine is not scoped the way a machining center is. Spindle hours matter less than capacity, the cutter and workholding package, and whether the machine still holds tolerance. Jason Puuri works these offers himself, against brand, model, year, condition and control type, plus current market data on what that class of machine is actually moving for. Change gears, index plates, cutters and hobs still with the machine, and any fixturing built around it all count, because a hobber that arrives complete goes back to work faster than one missing its package. A photo of the cutter head helps more than a spec sheet. The ancillary machines count too. This hub carries hob grinders and gear deburrers as listings in their own right, so an RCR CNC hob grinder or an S 250 CDA deburrer standing next to the hobber is worth telling us about rather than leaving off the list.

Have This Ready Before You Call

Start with the data plate: model and serial exactly as stamped. Then build year, control type, maximum gear diameter and module capacity, the cutter and workholding package, which change gears and index plates came with it, and whether it still holds tolerance. If a hob grinder or deburrer is going with it, list those on the same call. A few photos help and are not required. With that in hand a quote usually comes back inside 24 to 48 hours. The plate matters more on a Samputensili than on a volume brand, because 72 distinct models sit inside 77 listings here and 42 of those listings carry a leading model token that appears only once, so the number stamped on the plate places the machine faster than any written description does. If the build year is missing, say so and keep going. Only 31 of the 77 listings carry a build year at all.

Selling to MTE Instead of Listing It or Scrapping It

Across these listings the phrase Discontinued Model keeps coming back: SU SML F15, RCR CNC, S 250 CDA, S130, S-750, S160, S150, S 100, RI370 SERIE 10, RCLR, RSB 14 CN, RSB/14 and SM2TA all carry it. Discontinued is a common tag across the models listed here rather than a disqualifier, and a machine no longer built is exactly the machine we still buy. Machine Tool Exchange is a direct buyer and an affiliate of Superior Machine Tools. We purchase outright: no consignment, no listing, no broker, no waiting on an auction. We can arrange rigging, crating and freight in all 50 states, we can arrange the pickup, and we will take a single machine or a whole gear room, running, idle or decommissioned. Reach us at 517-514-5190, or start with the form at /sell-your-cnc-machine/ and we will come back with a number.