Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
They build quite a bit in Davis, CA for the US market. The CMX and NHX series are built here.The Mori machines of DMG Mori are still made in Japan. At least the more fancy ones.
I believe the Genos series, lathes and mills, are assembled elsewhere. I believe there are several key parts that are still made in Japan, not sure on the castings themselves.The Mori machines of DMG Mori are still made in Japan. At least the more fancy ones.
I know the cheaper Okuma lathes are not made in Japan.
GiggityMy wife's girlfriend is Japanese
I just ordered a Hydmech H-14A, made in Canada, But we really needed it because I don't like the coolant spray mess from an open bandsaw, and it had a 600 SFM option for actually cutting Aluminum, and our current production is all Aluminum.I'm shopping for a new auto band saw and was surprised/disappointed that the Amada saw I'm looking at is made in China. Daito is still made in Japan, and the price reflects that. I am still considering the Amada, but I don't feel great about it.
Genos are built in Taiwan by Tatung, I’m 100% sure on this. Tatung is a company that is famous in country for their rice cookers, every house hold owns a green Tatung rice cooker. would be highly skeptical of casting shipped from Japan to Taiwan for machine building. From everything I’ve seen it’s the exact opposite. However Taiwan has always been half decent at building verticals with Xtravels around 1000mm, 40 inches. Many Japanese brands build their verticals here to various degrees of completion or source casting here. However this doesn’t mean most Taiwanese verticals are built to the level the Genos is at.The Okuma Genos series is assembled in (I think) Taiwan. But most of the castings and the components are Japanese, so I was told.
Actually not. Most of the factory workers are former rural peasants who were forcibly moved to the cities as part of a modernization plan. Often the only jobs they can get at first are as factory workers and if they develop further skills they usually move on to better jobs. Thus, due to constant replacement a large percentage of the factory workers tend to be low skilled and inexperienced. Working in QC we often found parts missing, parts put in backwards and other symptoms of unskilled assembly.My wife's girlfriend is Japanese and her family is still in Japan. They have factories in China. I have never asked about her family's business, but she, the girlfriend is quick to tell what poor products, skills, and people come from China.
I have no qualms about Chinese people, likely they are as shilled as any other people.
This is why I have a soft spot for my Kentucky mazaks. In my opinion some of the best "made in america" machines are still made across the river from Cincinnati. I talked to some old timers at their plant in Florence, they were all former Monarch guys.What threw me into this was getting a quote on the GF Micron Mill E500, It was at the top of my list then the rep said it was Swiss Engineered but "Made in China"
Yeah, No. I don't care if its the best machine on the planet.
In our current consumer state of everything being cheap and everything being made in China,
and the machining industry hasn't gone down that road of everything made in China, and I'm not going to push or help it that direction.
My shop doesn't have anything Made in China, And never will.
Same. 0% chance of that happening.would be highly skeptical of casting shipped from Japan to Taiwan for machine building.
I talked to the rep about that same model. I could have sworn he said it was made in Italy.I just ordered a Hydmech H-14A, made in Canada, But we really needed it because I don't like the coolant spray mess from an open bandsaw, and it had a 600 SFM option for actually cutting Aluminum, and our current production is all Aluminum.
Notice
This website or its third-party tools process personal data (e.g. browsing data or IP addresses) and use cookies or other identifiers, which are necessary for its functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in the cookie policy. To learn more, please refer to the cookie policy. In case of sale of your personal information, you may opt out by sending us an email via our Contact Us page. To find out more about the categories of personal information collected and the purposes for which such information will be used, please refer to our privacy policy. You accept the use of cookies or other identifiers by closing or dismissing this notice, by scrolling this page, by clicking a link or button or by continuing to browse otherwise.