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Used Hwacheon CUTEX 240: Sell or Buy at Auction

Hwacheon is a Korean machine tool builder with over 70 years of manufacturing experience, producing CNC lathes, vertical machining centers, and horizontal machining centers. Known for heavy-duty construction and competitive pricing, Hwacheon machines are popular in job shops and production environments throughout North America as a value alternative to Japanese premium brands.

The Hwacheon Cutex 240 is a two-axis slant-bed CNC lathe sized for mid-range chucking and shaft work, the kind of flange, fitting, and short-shaft turning that fills most job-shop days. It pairs a 10-inch hydraulic chuck on an A2-8 spindle nose with a swing over the bed in the 22 to 23 inch class and a maximum turning diameter in the 12 to 13 inch range, so it handles mid-size parts without tying up a larger machine. A maximum spindle speed in the mid-3,000 rpm range under Fanuc control, a servo-indexing 12-station turret, and a hardened, ground slant-bed casting make it a dependable general-purpose turning center rather than a high-speed production cell. That is the capacity contract shops and general manufacturers want when they need proven Korean-built iron without premium Japanese pricing. Shops that already run Hwacheon or comparable machines know the Cutex platform holds tolerance well beyond its warranty years, and KD Auctions moves lathes like this through its network of 500,000+ industry contacts, where machinists recognize the Cutex name and bid with confidence.

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