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Used Hwacheon Hi-TECH 750: 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 Hi-TECH 750 is a heavy-duty horizontal CNC turning center, one of the large-capacity models in Hwacheon's Hi-TECH lathe line. It is built on a heavy Mehanite cast bed with solid box guideways, and its dimensions make the size clear: roughly 1,200mm (about 47-inch) swing over the bed, a maximum turning diameter near 760mm (about 30 inches), an 18-inch chuck standard with 15, 21, and 24-inch options, and cutting lengths from about 2,250mm on the standard bed to well over four meters on the extended L and XL versions. That capacity is meant for large-diameter shafts, flanges, rolls, and heavy fabricated parts that will not fit or hold rigidity on a standard-size lathe. The high-torque spindle tops out near 1,800 rpm and runs on a 37 to 45 kW motor, favoring low-speed heavy stock removal and interrupted cuts on large stock, while the box-way construction holds precision through long cycles. Hwacheon supplies this line with a Fanuc control, and recent machines run the Fanuc 0i-TF Plus. Buyers for this model are usually production and job shops moving into large-diameter turning, along with oilfield, energy, and heavy-equipment component manufacturers who want proven Korean build quality at a lower price than a comparable Japanese machine. At auction, a well-maintained Hi-TECH 750 finds that specialized pool quickly. KD Auctions markets each large-swing lathe to its 500,000+ industry contacts, putting the machine in front of the specific shops that run this size of turning capacity rather than a general audience.

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