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Hydraulic shearing machine from China

The model code on a hydraulic shear states cutting type, thickness and length, yet listed prices barely follow it, so compare code against code with blade, gauge and guarding written out.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 30 September 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Swing beam or guillotine

A swing beam blade moves on an arc with a fixed rake angle, and its blades usually have two cutting edges. A guillotine moves straight down, lets you change the rake, and its blades usually have four. The guillotine costs more and bows narrow strips less.

Blade gap setting

The gap must change with thickness or the edge tears and the blade chips. A hand lever with a scale, or a motorised setting driven by the controller: ask which.

Back gauge

Most listings named a basic one axis NC controller. Ask gauge travel, ball screw or not, and whether it retracts for long sheets.

Blade material and spares

Ask the blade steel grade and hardness, and price a second set now. Blades are the wear part.

Guarding and sheet support

Finger guard, hold-downs, and a rear light curtain or fence. Thin sheet also needs rear support, or the cut length drifts.

Decode the model code.

Listings follow a Chinese convention. Q marks a shear. 12 is a swing beam, 11 a guillotine. Y means hydraulic with a simple display, K means an NC controller. The figures are the rated thickness in mild steel and the cutting length, both in millimetres.

QC11K-8x3200: guillotine, NC controlled, 8 mm mild steel, 3,200 mm long.
QC12Y-4x3200: swing beam, hydraulic, 4 mm, same length. The first cuts plate twice as thick.

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

The thickest and widest sheet you cut, by grade: mild steel, stainless, aluminium.
The narrowest strip you cut, and how flat it must stay.
Cut length and squareness tolerance on your drawings.
Back gauge travel you need, and whether sheets are loaded from front or rear.
Guarding expected on arrival, and site voltage and frequency.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
After a warm-up, cut a full length sheet at rated thickness and another in your thinnest material.	No tearing, edge burr and squareness within your drawing, blade gap set without shims.
Cut ten narrow strips of the same width from thin sheet and measure each.	Width repeats within your tolerance and strips lie flat enough for your next step.
Reach under the finger guard with a test piece, then open the rear guard with the beam moving.	The finger guard blocks the hand zone and the beam stops when the rear guard opens.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity citing 2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027, with EMC 2014/30/EU and the standard applied, normally EN 13985 for guillotine shears.
Manual in your language with the thickness table by material and the blade gap chart.
Hydraulic and electrical diagrams and the blade drawing with steel grade.

The one people forget. The blade drawing. Without dimensions, bolt pattern and steel grade, replacement blades must come from the original seller at their price. Ask for it with the machine.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

Your blanks have holes, notches or curves, not only straight edges.

A fibre laser cutting machine, which cuts the whole outline.

You cut coil into strips of fixed width in volume.

A coil slitting line, which works continuously from coil.

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

Listings · 3Three listings for 3,200 mm sheet shears, checked September 2026, asked US$4,000 (one price for 6, 8 and 10 mm), US$6,800 to US$6,900 (4 mm swing beam, NC controller) and US$11,600 to US$12,000 (8 mm guillotine, NC controller). Asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 1One listing offered a 16 x 6,000 mm swing beam shear at US$5,500 to US$8,800.
Listings · 9Of nine listings returned for hydraulic shearing machine, three were scrap metal shears of 800 to 2,000 tonnes.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

CNC press brake. Choose a CNC press brake when your sheared blanks need bending, often a shop's second machine.
Coil slitting line. Choose a coil slitting line when you buy coil and need many strips of one width, not single cut sheets.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Metal & CNC page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

Chinese vs European hydraulic shearing machine: what differs?+

Hydraulics and controllers are often the same brands. The difference is frame mass, blade steel, gap adjustment and guarding.

What belongs on a hydraulic shearing machine inspection checklist?+

The three tests above, blade grade against the invoice, and pump and valve nameplates.

What CE documentation does a hydraulic shear need?+

A Declaration of Conformity naming its standards, the technical file behind it, and a manual in your language. A CE mark on a brochure proves nothing.

Who is the EU importer of a shear bought from China?+

If you import it yourself, you are: check the conformity documents and put your name and address on it.

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