CNC Horizontal Machining Centers

Used Kitamura Mycenter-HX500: Sell or Buy at Auction

Kitamura is a Japanese precision machine tool builder specializing in high-accuracy horizontal machining centers and vertical machining centers. Known for superior spindle quality and rigid construction, Kitamura machines are a preferred choice in aerospace, die and mold, and precision medical machining. The Mycenter series offers high-speed machining with exceptional thermal stability.

The Kitamura Mycenter-HX500 is a #50 taper horizontal machining center built around a 500mm (19.7 inch) twin pallet changer, with X/Y/Z travels of roughly 34 x 28 x 26 inches (870 x 711 x 660 mm), a 12,000 RPM dual-contact spindle rated at 35/30 HP, a 50 tool automatic tool changer, and full 4th axis pallet rotation, with fine 0.001 degree indexing on the NC rotary table. Kitamura builds the HX500 on hardened, hand-scraped box ways rather than linear guides, which is where its rigidity and thermal stability come from, and the twin pallet layout lets one part cut while the operator loads the next, so the machine keeps running with little idle time between jobs. That combination is why the HX500 tends to land in precision machining shops, aerospace component work, and die and mold shops that need multi-sided, largely unattended machining on mid size parts. It sits in the middle of Kitamura's horizontal line, a step above the compact HX400 and below the larger HX630, so buyers shopping this exact model are usually adding horizontal capacity for parts too large for a small pallet HMC but not heavy enough to justify a bigger platform, and they weigh Kitamura's spindle accuracy and box-way rigidity as much as the added throughput. KD Auctions markets used Kitamura horizontal machining centers like the HX500 to a base of 500,000+ industry contacts, where documented spindle hours, a full tooling package, and current calibration records tend to drive the strongest results at sale.

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