The Grand Event Comes to a Close, Ushering in a New Era of Quality | General Technology Group Reaps Abundant Achievements, Demonstrating Its Role as the “National Team” in Machine Tools
Release Date:
2026-04-29
Asia’s premier machine tool and tooling event, bringing together global industry leaders and fostering collaboration across the entire value chain—The 14th China CNC Machine Tool Exhibition (CCMT2026) recently came to a successful close. Under the theme “Excellent Technology, Respect for a Better Life,” General Technology Group showcased 34 units of cutting-edge intelligent equipment at the exhibition, drawing extensive attention from industry experts and customers alike and comprehensively demonstrating the group’s robust technological prowess and innovative achievements in the high-end machine tool sector. During the event, the group’s booth welcomed more than 7,400 domestic and international visitors.
High-Profile Attention Highlights the Responsibility of Central Enterprises
Cui Zhicheng, General Manager and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the General Technology Group, along with group-appointed directors, visited the exhibition site to conduct on-site research and provide guidance, gaining an in-depth understanding of how the Group is serving the national strategy of building a manufacturing powerhouse and promoting Industrial mother machine The latest achievements in innovative development and industry-specific solutions have received high praise for the Group’s strategic focus on high-end, intelligent, green, and independently controllable development.
During the exhibition, leaders from relevant State Council ministries and commissions visited the venue, offering guidance and support. They commended General Technology Group for its commitment to staying focused on its core business and for tackling critical core technologies, while encouraging the Group to continue playing a leading role in driving collaborative upgrades across the industrial chain. The Group’s booth also hosted representatives from the German Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association and the Indonesian Ambassador to China, demonstrating an open-minded approach to building bridges for international cooperation, promoting collaborative innovation in global manufacturing, and leveraging cutting-edge technology to empower high-quality industrial development.
Brimming with honors, our strength has earned industry recognition.
Leveraging groundbreaking innovations and exceptional product quality, the Group has reaped a wealth of accolades at this year’s exhibition, winning multiple prestigious awards and solidifying its status as an industry benchmark.
On the afternoon of April 21, at the exhibition venue, the research findings on the 2025 “Top Ten Innovations” and “Top Ten Product Qualities” awards of the China Machine Tool Industry Association, as well as CCMT2026, were announced. Spring Swallow Award Launch ceremony. General Technology Tianduan Company’s THP11D-15000 high-performance magnesium alloy isothermal die forging intelligent complete set of equipment has been awarded “Top Ten for Independent Innovation” The following five products have been awarded the title: the RAC/RAS series of time-grating sensors for national metrology under General Technology; the L-series 575 three-coordinate measuring machine manufactured by General Technology Harbin Measuring Instruments Co., Ltd.; the HMU125h high-precision horizontal milling and boring machining center produced by General Technology Kunming Machine Tool Co., Ltd.; the SMU350 five-axis blade machining center from General Technology Shenyang Machine Tool Co., Ltd.; and the VG63 high-precision vertical grinder from General Technology Tianjin No. 1 Machine Tool Co., Ltd. “Spring Swallow Award” 。
On the afternoon of April 22, the Information Research Institute of the Machinery Industry, in collaboration with the Journal of Metalworking, held the release ceremony for the results of the fourth User Survey on Machining Centers and “ Jin Feng Award “Ceremony for the Release of the Machining Center Product Innovation Award. General Technology Machine Tool Company Wins” “User-Satisfied Brand” in the 4th Machining Center User Survey Awards: The HoriMil100-5A five-axis coordinate boring and milling machining center developed by Kunming Machine Tool Co., Ltd. of General Technology has been awarded Second Edition of Machining Center Products Innovation Award 。
Livestreaming Breaks Barriers, Showcasing the All-Around Appeal of Intelligent Manufacturing
During the exhibition, a series of specialized live-streaming events titled “Equipment Manufacturing: A Deep Dive into Cutting-Edge Technologies” was successfully held. The first session, “A Panoramic Exploration: An All-Around Look at Cutting-Edge Equipment,” and the second, “Strategic Focus: Strategic Insights into Intelligent Equipment Manufacturing and Industry Applications,” were broadcast simultaneously across four official video channels—General Technology Group, Intelligent Manufacturing, Seco Industrial Insights, and Equipment Powerhouse. Leveraging an integrated online–offline approach, these broadcasts broke down geographical barriers and provided a comprehensive, immersive showcase of the manufacturing prowess of the “national team” in machine tools. Throughout the live streams, professional hosts, accompanied by leaders and technical experts from machine tool companies and their subsidiaries, ventured directly to the exhibition booths to offer in-depth, multi-dimensional insights into the strategic direction, core technologies, product performance, and application scenarios of 34 exhibited units (sets), highlighting their robust capabilities and industry applications. Special emphasis was placed on showcasing the innovative breakthroughs of 17 newly launched products making their global debut. In total, the live streams attracted more than 80,000 online viewers and garnered nearly 150,000 likes, effectively amplifying brand visibility, enabling global customers to gain a direct appreciation of the technological leaps achieved by China’s high-end machine tools, and establishing an efficient and convenient online platform for communication and collaboration.
Star Exhibits Gather, Cutting-Edge Technology Makes a Stunning Debut
At this exhibition, the Group is showcasing a total of 34 units (sets) of high-end intelligent equipment, including 26 machine tool mainframes, 3 forming machine tool prototypes, 5 sets of precision measuring instruments, and 8 categories of core functional components. Notably, 17 of these units are making their public debut, bringing together flagship exhibits and delivering a concentrated showcase of cutting-edge technologies.
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HTM125300 Horizontal Turn-Mill Composite Machining Center
This product is primarily designed for the machining of long-axis, spatially complex rotational parts with stringent dimensional and geometric tolerances, offering outstanding advantages in high efficiency, high precision, and high rigidity. It features a modular design and a horizontal layout, equipped with three fully closed-loop linear feed axes and two rotary axes. The Y-axis adopts a single-column configuration, enabling flexible expansion with a wide range of optional configurations and supporting diverse machining processes and multi-specification tooling. With a single workpiece setup, the entire machining sequence or key operations can be completed, significantly enhancing both machining efficiency and accuracy, thereby providing reliable equipment support for high-end precision manufacturing.
GMC2550wsμ Moving-Table, Moving-Gantry Type Gantry Five-Axis Machining Center
This product is primarily used in industries such as machine tools, mold manufacturing, energy, shipbuilding and offshore engineering, and construction machinery. It features a modular design with a rigid, moving-table-and-moving-gantry layout, complemented by an independently developed cast-iron monolithic quenched rolling guideway that delivers exceptional rigidity and low friction—ensuring superior linear and positioning accuracy. A servo-driven, constant-temperature control system guarantees long-term, high-precision, stable operation. The machine is equipped with either an independently developed high-speed, high-torque internal-spindle or a mechanical spindle system, along with a wide range of fully automatic auxiliary milling heads; optional internal cooling further enhances versatility to meet diverse application requirements. Additionally, it includes a vertical–horizontal swappable tool magazine and a fully automatic head magazine, with optional pallet-changer and robotic tool-magazine configurations for line integration, significantly reducing auxiliary machining time and boosting equipment utilization efficiency. This makes the machine ideally suited for high-precision, high-efficiency machining of large structural components and large molds.
GMC100u/t Vertical Five-Axis Machining Center
This product is designed for the precision machining of difficult-to-cut materials such as high-temperature alloys and titanium alloys, making it ideal for multi-variety, small-to-medium batch, high-precision manufacturing applications while delivering exceptional rigidity and efficiency. Featuring a modular design with a wide range of configuration options, it fully meets diverse customer machining requirements; it is equipped with an integrated machine thermal management system that ensures strong thermal rigidity and excellent dimensional stability; it comes standard with a 40-tool chain-type tool magazine and offers an optional flexible robotic tool changer for enhanced versatility; and it can be configured with a dual-pallet exchange system to boost machining throughput and facilitate automation and production-line upgrades. Core functional components—including the CNC control system, drive system, measurement and feedback system, rotary table, and swivel head—are all domestically produced, enabling broad application in critical sectors for the high-precision, high-efficiency machining of annular parts and box-type components.
HMC80Tep Horizontal Machining Center
This product is suitable for machining box-type, housing-type, disc-shaped, and complex-profile parts in industries such as automotive, mold making, valve manufacturing, and general machinery manufacturing. It enables automatic multi-process machining—milling, boring, drilling, reaming, broaching, and tapping—on all four faces of a part in a single clamping operation. The machine features a monolithic T-shaped bed with integral construction to ensure high rigidity; it incorporates hollow lead-screw cooling and spindle temperature-compensation technology, achieving positioning accuracy of 0.006 mm and repeat positioning accuracy of 0.004 mm; it employs hydraulic lifting combined with cam-driven table indexing for tool changing, with a cycle time of 12.5 seconds; and it utilizes cam-linked tool-changing technology, reducing tool-change time to 2.5 seconds.
H-TH6920 Floor-Type Milling and Boring Machining Center
This product is designed for high-efficiency, high-precision cutting operations and is widely used in industries such as shipbuilding, industrial machine tools, new-energy vehicles, and energy. Through structural optimization, its feed rate, reliability, and accuracy metrics have been comprehensively improved, with repeat positioning accuracy reaching as high as 0.008 mm. The equipment is equipped with a reliability testing system that supports end-to-end intelligent management and real-time condition monitoring; leveraging Digital Twin Technology , which can effectively reduce programming time by 40%, achieve a first-piece success rate of over 98%, and significantly optimize production efficiency and resource utilization.
PBC160BEM Vertical Gantry-Type CNC Planer-Milling-Boring Machine
This product is a next-generation, high-end CNC planer-milling-boring machine independently developed for applications in industrial machine tools, high-end molds, aerospace, energy equipment, shipbuilding, construction machinery, and other fields. The machine features a vertically mounted spindle headstock that delivers excellent thermal symmetry and outstanding positional accuracy stability. It is equipped with a 41 kW Siemens spindle motor paired with a two-speed gearbox, enabling a maximum spindle speed of 3,000 rpm and a maximum torque of 1,756 Nm, thus balancing heavy-load cutting at low speeds with high-precision machining at high speeds. The machine also incorporates two advanced intelligent systems: gravity-balanced spindle headstock and real-time compensation for thermal deformation of the boring spindle. Linear-axis positioning accuracy is 0.012 mm per 1,000 mm, with a repeat positioning accuracy of 0.008 mm, ensuring stable machining accuracy over extended periods. The B-axis employs a dual-motor backlash-compensation design combined with constant-pressure closed-loop hydrostatic guideways, achieving a positioning accuracy of 6 arcseconds and a repeat positioning accuracy of 3.6 arcseconds, thereby enabling smooth, backlash-free rotation even under heavy-load conditions.
VG63 High-Precision Vertical Grinding Machine
This product is a next-generation, high-precision vertical composite grinding machine independently developed by General Technology Group, primarily serving high-end manufacturing sectors such as bearings, aerospace, spindles, semiconductors, and pumps and valves. The equipment is equipped with core functional components—including a self-developed closed-loop hydrostatic worktable and closed-loop hydrostatic linear guides—and features a column-moving, cross-slide table configuration, ensuring excellent overall rigidity, lightweight moving parts, stable operation, and outstanding control performance. The machine tool can be flexibly configured with intelligent modules such as tool magazines, on-line measurement systems, and grinding vibration monitoring, making it suitable for a wide range of part types, high-precision requirements, and complex machining scenarios, thereby providing reliable equipment support for the precision manufacturing of critical components.
YH7226 CNC Worm Gear Grinding Machine with Abrasive Wheel
This product is a 13-axis, five-axis linkage CNC worm-wheel grinding machine independently developed by General Technology Group, primarily used for gear machining in traditional automobiles, new-energy vehicles, precision reducers, and other fields. The equipment features a dual-worktable spindle design and integrates automatic wheel balancing, automatic dressing, automated workpiece loading, automatic gear alignment, and fully automated grinding process control, enabling efficient, continuous production. Both the grinding-wheel spindle and the workpiece spindle are equipped with direct-drive technology, achieving a maximum grinding peripheral speed of 80 m/s and maintaining processing accuracy at GB Grade 3. The machine is also outfitted with specialized software for flexible dressing, polishing grinding, cycloidal grinding, and other functions, making it well-suited to machining complex tooth profiles and producing high-quality gear surfaces. Additionally, the equipment can be flexibly configured with gantry-type or articulated robots and automated material storage systems, comprehensively enhancing customers’ production-line automation and flexible manufacturing capabilities.
Free Forging Ring Rolling Production Line
This production line is a self-developed free-forging ring-rolling line by General Technology Group, widely used in the manufacturing of large forgings for critical applications such as wind power. The line integrates all key processes—including drawing and lengthening, upsetting, punching (and expanding) holes, mandrel twisting, bending, and offset chopping—enabling one-stop completion of free forging, ring forging, and ring rolling operations while ensuring that the roundness accuracy of typical annular or cylindrical components is better than 2‰ of the outer diameter. The line features comprehensive configuration: the forging presses cover a nominal force range from 800 tonnes to 13,500 tonnes, and the ring-rolling machines can handle rolled rings with outer diameters ranging from 16 meters down to 2,000 millimeters, thus meeting the requirements for producing extra-large forgings. The line employs a multi-station, high-precision free-forging billet-forming and punching process that enables continuous, efficient operation of steps such as upsetting, pre-punching, final punching, and mandrel-expanding; it is also equipped with precision extrusion control for lightweight rotating components, isothermal forging speed control, process data acquisition, and an adaptive fault-diagnosis and maintenance system, thereby ensuring long-term, efficient, stable, and reliable operation of the line and providing robust equipment support for the domestic production of core forgings for major industrial equipment.
UPT250 Ultra-Precision Single-Point Diamond Turning Machine
This product is a ultra-precision single-point diamond turning machine independently developed by General Technology Group, primarily used for the precision machining of components in industries such as optoelectronics, medical devices, and photovoltaic–thermal systems. The machine tool features a T-shaped layout and incorporates fully constrained ultra-precision hydrostatic guideways, high-rotation-accuracy spindle units, and an ultra-precision rotary table, enabling ultra-precision turning, grinding, and fly-cutter milling of parts with complex surface geometries. The machine bed is supported by a high-performance air-spring vibration isolation system, effectively isolating high-frequency vibrations; moreover, the protective enclosure is designed separately from the machine body to minimize interference from peripheral systems during machining.
L-Series 575 Three-Coordinate Measuring Machine
This product is equipped with a proprietary, in-house developed 3D vertical scanning probe, which is precisely tailored for coordinate measuring machine applications. During measurement, it accurately captures the surface contour data of the workpiece, ensuring high measurement accuracy. The precision mechanical mainframe adopts a moving bridge structure, with air-bearing guideways on all three axes—X, Y, and Z—and incorporates air-bearing technology to effectively reduce operational friction, eliminate vibration interference, and comprehensively ensure the stability and reliability of the measurement system. The electrical control system is powered by a Renishaw multi-axis motion controller, enabling coordinated multi-axis motion control for the CMM. Paired with the dedicated RationalDMIS measurement software, users can easily create feature-based measurements and perform dimensional and geometric tolerance calculations. This product is widely applicable across key high-end manufacturing sectors such as automotive, mold making, mechanical engineering, electronics, and medical technology, precisely meeting the core metrology needs of industry users.
Promote empowerment and precisely match cooperation needs.
To deepen collaboration across the industrial value chain and precisely align with market needs, the Group successfully hosted the “Industrial Mother Machine” Innovation and Development Forum, the Industrial Chain “Joint Linkage Initiative,” and multiple product promotion events during the exhibition, thereby establishing an efficient platform for technological exchange and collaborative matchmaking. The events focused on key sectors such as aerospace, automotive manufacturing, energy equipment, and humanoid robotics. A team of technical experts provided in-depth briefings on the “6+2+3” core product portfolio, highlighting each product’s technological advantages, tailored solutions, and real-world industry application cases. Through face-to-face discussions with attendees, the experts were able to directly address and effectively respond to pressing market challenges and specific customer needs.
Pooling Our Strengths to Move Forward and Chart a New Blueprint for Future Development
With the grand event now concluded, our original aspirations remain unchanged; as we embark on a journey spanning thousands of miles, our steps will never falter. As the “national team” of the machine tool industry, the successful conclusion of CCMT 2026 not only showcases the Group’s phased achievements in a concentrated manner but also marks a brand-new starting point for our future endeavors.
Looking ahead to the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the Group has articulated its core vision of “Making China’s Machine Tool Equipment World-Class,” with the ambitious goal of “entering the global machine tool industry’s top tier.” Underpinned by four flagship initiatives—Chunshan, Tiangong, Nuanchun, and Yangfan—the Group is focusing on breakthroughs in critical core technologies, the refinement of a high-end product portfolio, the enhancement of end-to-end lifecycle services, and the expansion of its global footprint. At the same time, it is advancing the “Dual-Hundred Partner Initiative,” collaborating with upstream and downstream enterprises across the value chain to co-create value and drive the Chinese machine tool industry toward a historic transformation—from large-scale to truly strong.
Keywords: Turning operations, vertical machining centers, horizontal machining centers
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