Used Tsugami Machines We Buy

Who Builds Tsugami Machines

Tsugami machines are built by TSUGAMI CORPORATION, a Japanese machine tool maker whose head office is in Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. The company started in measurement rather than metal cutting: its timeline records block-gauge research in Tokyo from June 1923, and Tsugami Mfg. Co., Ltd. was established in Nagaoka, Niigata, in March 1937, where production of gauge blocks began. The present name, TSUGAMI CORPORATION, dates from November 1970.

Sliding headstock lathes, the machines most Tsugami sellers call us about, go back further than many owners expect. Tsugami lists production and sale of its T-7 sliding headstock automatic lathe from November 1957, and its Mercury series of CNC composite automatic lathes went on sale in June 1978. Milling is not new either: the history notes that its MA3 machining center won an automation prize in March 1984.

Where Tsugami Builds Today

In Japan, Tsugami's factory sits in the northern industrial zone of Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, and the company's integrated report calls Nagaoka its only production site. The wider group lists more factories: Precision Tsugami (China) Corporation and Shinagawa Precision Machinery (Zhejiang) in Pinghu, Zhejiang, Precision Tsugami (Anhui) in Maanshan, and an Indian plant at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu.

Most of that footprint is recent. Tsugami's history dates the China company to September 2003, the India company to April 2011 and the Anhui company to April 2018, with a foundry in India operating from April 2024 and a new Indian plant completed in December 2025. For a used Tsugami we go by the model string and serial number on the plate, wherever it was assembled.

Tsugami's Swiss-Type Lathes, by Tool-Post Layout

Tsugami sorts its current CNC precision automatic lathes by tool-post layout. Some of the models it lists under each heading, with the largest machining diameter it gives:

From Tsugami's CNC Precision Automatic Lathe page, which lists current models only. Older names in our book, such as the M08SY and BS20, are not on it; send those as the plate reads.

Guide Bushing, Guide-Bushless and the Rest of the Range

Tsugami says its CNC precision automatic lathes let a buyer choose spindles for long, short or heavy-duty cutting, and that its guide-bushless setup machines accurately from more economical bar stock. It aims these machines at mass production of small, high-precision parts for office equipment, medical devices, phones, optical communications and cars. Its CNC lathes, by contrast, carry a turret tool post and handle bar or chucker work.

That choice shows up in a used machine's value. Tell us whether your Tsugami runs with a guide bushing or guide-bushless, and which bushings, collets and bar feeder go with it. Beyond lathes, Tsugami builds turning centers, vertical and horizontal machining centers, precision grinders and thread and form rolling machines, and we buy those too.

Tsugami's US Sales Channel, or Selling Outright

Tsugami's own sales network page names a single company for the USA: REM SALES, LLC of Windsor, Connecticut, listed with its sales and technical centers. Tsugami also lists its own European company in Frankfurt, plus distributors in other regions.

For a Tsugami you mean to keep cutting parts on, that US channel, the sales and technical center Tsugami lists, is the one to call. For one you are ready to clear out, we buy it outright, and notes on recent service or spindle work are worth adding when you send the details.

What Is in the Tsugami Book Right Now

Every one of the 413 listings in this hub is a Tsugami, and they carry 315 distinct model designations, so repeats are rare and nearly every unit gets scoped on its own. The category split reads like this: 107 listings are filed as CNC Swiss-Type Lathes, 61 as CNC Lathes and 9 as CNC Turning Centers. A further 211 sit under the broad Metal Cutting heading, which is a parent facet rather than a machine type, so a machine filed there can still be a lathe. The rest is smaller but real: 9 CNC Vertical Machining Centers, 6 CNC Horizontal Machining Centers, 3 CNC Miscellaneous Machines, then 2 each of CNC Machining Centers, CNC Grinding Machines and CNC Multi-Tasking Machines, and 1 CNC Horizontal Boring Mill. Of the listings that carry a build year, the oldest is a 1978 machine and the newest a 2024. That is the whole book, counted rather than estimated.

Swiss-Type Turning Is the Largest Machine Type Here

CNC Swiss-Type Lathes is the largest named machine-type category here at 107 listings. Add the 61 CNC Lathes and 9 CNC Turning Centers and 177 of the 413 sit in a lathe-named or turning-named category. The families behind those counts are ordinary working machines. B0205 shows up 7 times and B0206 6 times, with B038T at 5 and B0385L, B0126 and B0326 at 4 each. SS327 appears 7 times, SS207 and SS20 5 each, SS32 4. BS19 and BS20 each appear 5 times too, BS26, BS32 and BS12B 4 times each, and BS26C, BS32CE and BS12 3 times each. S206 comes through 6 times, S16 4 and S205 3. Some families sit almost entirely in the Swiss-type filing: 4 of the 5 BS20 listings are filed as CNC Swiss-Type Lathes, 5 of the 6 S206 listings, and all 3 B0386 listings. If you run a Swiss department, that is what moves through here.

The M08SY Family, and Why the Model String Matters

M08SY is the largest single model family in this hub at 10 listings, and M08SY-II is the most common individual model string in the book at 6. The M08SY family files as 7 under Metal Cutting and 3 as CNC Lathes. Now the part worth reading twice, because it changes what you send us. This catalog carries the same machine written more than one way. M08SY and MO8SY differ by a single character, a digit zero against a letter O, and they are counted separately at 10 listings and 4. They even file differently, with MO8SY landing 2 in CNC Lathes, 1 in Metal Cutting and 1 in CNC Multi-Tasking. M08SYII shows up on its own as well, apart from the 6 written as M08SY-II. The model string is what places a machine, so read it off the data plate and send it exactly as printed, hyphens and zeros and all.

The Tsugami Machines Here That Are Not Swiss Lathes

Not everything in this book turns bar stock. FMA3 is the second-largest family here at 9 listings, and it is not a turning line: most of the family files under Metal Cutting, CNC Horizontal Machining Centers and CNC Horizontal Boring Mills, and it accounts for the hub's only horizontal boring mill plus half of the 6 horizontal machining centers. On the vertical side the hub holds 9 CNC Vertical Machining Centers and 2 CNC Machining Centers, and the VA2 family, at 3 listings, contributes one of those vertical centers. There are also 2 CNC Grinding Machines, 2 CNC Multi-Tasking Machines and 3 CNC Miscellaneous Machines. TMA8F and TMA8 each appear twice, as do MB35E and G18, and at two listings apiece none of them carries a recorded category split. The practical point for a seller: a Tsugami that is not a Swiss lathe is still squarely something we buy, and it gets scoped on its own model, hours and condition rather than on its family name.

What Moves the Number, and What to Have Ready

On a Swiss machine the number moves on hours and configuration. Spindle hours, whether the machine still holds tolerance, the sub-spindle and live-tooling setup, and whether the guide bushing, collets and bar feeder go with it, because a Swiss cell quotes as a cell rather than as a bare machine. The designation is doing real work too. Several models here carry a 5AX suffix, SS207-5AX and SS327-III-5AX among them, and generation suffixes run through the catalog: BS19-III, BS20-II, B0326E-II, B0205-II, B0206-V. Have this ready before you call: the serial number, the model string exactly as it reads on the data plate, the build year, spindle hours if tracked, the control, a tooling list, and a few photos of the control screen and the work envelope. Photos help but are not required to start. With 315 distinct models across 413 listings, Jason Puuri scopes each machine on its own hours and condition rather than the brand.

Selling a Tsugami Direct Instead of Listing It

MTE buys outright. We are not a broker, an auction platform or a consignment service, so the offer comes directly from us. Three steps. Send the machine details, meaning brand, model, year, condition and any tooling included. We evaluate it and send a quote, typically within 24 to 48 hours. Accept it and we schedule pickup. We can arrange rigging, crating and freight nationwide. Condition is not a gate: running, needing repair, or sitting idle since the job ended, all three still get evaluated. One Swiss lathe and a full cell coming out during a changeover go on the same terms, and pulling several at once does not mean one blanket price. MTE has been buying and selling industrial machinery since Superior Machine and Tool was founded in 2012.