We don’t just run machines. We build them.
When neither the technology nor the machines were for sale, we answered by building our own. A 6 m five-face gantry machining center, the 12 m FWB-L12010 floor-type boring and milling machine, an 8-meter CNC lathe, a 7-axis gun drill — and when production needs a machine the market does not offer, we build that too.
In the early 2000s, large marine engine components — common-rail units, cylinder blocks, cylinder heads — were import-only, available from a handful of foreign suppliers. Neither the machining technology nor the machines were for sale.
Our founder’s account of that decision:
“We developed the FWG-M1260 gantry machining center, the 12-meter-travel FWB-L12010 floor-type boring and milling machine, an 8-meter CNC lathe, and a 7-axis 3-meter deep-hole CNC gun drill — solving the chokepoint machining problems of key engine components.”— Xu Guan, Founder
No machine on the market could make these parts. So we built the machine first — and the part followed. The common-rail unit followed — ten meters long, 1,050 bar working pressure — and with it, a machine-building capability that has never left the company.
Every machine on this table was designed backward from a part that existing machines could not hold. That is what “custom” means here: not a catalog with options, but a machine born from a process requirement. And where a market machine came close, we modified it — and armed it with tooling of our own design.
| Model | Type | Key specifications | Built to solve |
|---|---|---|---|
| FWB-L12010 | CNC floor-type boring and milling machine — 4-axis simultaneous, four faces machined in one setup | X travel 12,000 mm; Y travel 800 mm; Z travel 1,200 mm | Fuel common-rail units for large marine engines — the chokepoint part no market machine could hold at the time (see founder’s account in §2) |
| FWZ-M2030B | 7-axis CNC gun drill | 6,000 mm drilling depth; work zone 3,250 × 1,000 × 2,600 × 2,880 mm; BT40 | Precision deep holes: fuel-system bores, long shafts |
| FWG-M1260 | Gantry machining center | Travels 6,000 × 1,200 × 650 mm; BT-50 spindle; 6,000 rpm; table load 10,000 kg; 4th-axis rotary table; 5-face machining in one setup; Mitsubishi CNC | Large plate & block milling |
| FWT-80800 | 8-meter CNC lathe | Ø800 × 8,000 mm; 40–980 rpm | Long shafts, marine & downhole rotating parts |
| FWDHH-M4080 / FWDHH-L4070 | Deep-hole EDM drilling machine | 500 × 350 × 800 mm / 450 × 320 × 800 mm; electrode load 400 kg | Deep, small-diameter holes in hardened and difficult-to-machine alloys — where mechanical drilling reaches its limit |
| FWDHH-L2390 | Ram-type mirror-finish EDM | 2,300 × 900 × 600 mm; table 2,500 × 1,200 mm | Large mould & die work — mirror finishes on hardened steel |
| Modified deep-hole drilling machines | Deep-hole drilling & boring — base machines modified in-house, running special tooling we design and build ourselves | Base machines sourced from specialist builders, then modified in-house for complex and profiled bores; cutting tools designed and manufactured in-house | Large complex bores: internal annular grooves, eccentric bores, multi-step seal bores |
These are not prototypes. They are the machines our parts run on today — across the group’s manufacturing base, on the same floor and with the same people. The FW-series machines on this table are built by our machine-tool subsidiary — Fowei Precision Machinery (Foshan), a specialist custom CNC machine-tool builder since 2002.
Here is the point our founder insists on — and the reason you will find no machines for sale on this site:
The machines were never the product. The machining is.
Building a machine teaches you what buying one never can:
Not the brochure’s positioning number, but the rigidity of the structure, the thermal behavior of the casting, the wear curve of a guideway
The vibration at 6 meters of drill overhang, the thermal drift in an 8-meter cut, the coolant chemistry that decides a bore’s surface
When a part goes wrong on a machine you built, there is no vendor hotline and no finger to point. You diagnose, you adjust, you learn. That loop, repeated for years, is what “experience” physically consists of
So when your part runs on our floor, the people running it understand the equipment down to its design intent. A factory that can build its machine can hold its tolerance.
The problem. 2003: a major Chinese shipyard held the license for a top-tier marine common-rail diesel — and for two years, nobody in the country could machine its fuel unit. Ten meters of high-strength steel, rail bores holding 1,050 bar working pressure, tolerances that punished every micron of machine deflection.
The machine. With the process closed to us and the machines closed to us, we built the machines — including the FWZ-100200 deep-hole drill, drilling 10 m deep — and rebuilt the process alongside it: drill geometry, coolant strategy, bushing support, feed discipline.
The result. 2006: the first China-made marine common-rail units, ending the era when such parts could only be imported. Certification from seven classification societies followed; the units later entered service aboard China’s polar research vessel. And the machines stayed — still running, still teaching.
The problem. Ultra-long gun-drilled holes in large workpieces: beyond a certain length-to-diameter ratio, the drill’s own weight and the cutting forces walk the hole off line — and no stock machine offered the support strategy to prevent it.
The machine. The FWZ-M2030A CNC gun drill: a combined drilling-and-milling architecture with a long-nose BT40 spindle. A front steady rest pre-drills the guide bore; the spindle then retracts and the drill is carried by a tool cradle — an over-long drill, supported at both ends.
The result. Deep holes at extreme length-to-diameter ratios, held straight. The same support philosophy was later scaled into our 7-axis FWZ-M2030B class — 6,000 mm drilling depth.
More machine-building cases (process problem → machine solution → result) will be added as they are documented.
No — the machines we build serve our own production lines. We do not take custom machine orders, domestic or overseas; machine building exists to serve our machining, not the other way around. What we do take: if you have a part no catalog machine seems able to hold — that is exactly the conversation worth having. We may already have built the machine for it.
For our own floor, yes — modifying and rebuilding machines for process requirements is part of how we work, and it is why our machining capability has no catalog ceiling. But it is not a service we offer: we do not take retrofit or machine-modification commissions.
Because the machine is half the process. A supplier that built its equipment understands rigidity, thermal behavior, and wear from the inside — and when your part pushes a limit, that understanding is the difference between adjusting the machine and rejecting your drawing.
Mitsubishi, Siemens and FANUC — our gantry machining centers, 8-meter lathes and gun-drilling machines run Mitsubishi CNC; the deep-hole EDM machines run Taiwan-made controllers.
Upload your drawing. Within 24 hours, an engineer — who may well know the machine’s designer personally — responds with manufacturability feedback.
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