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Six sided drilling machine from China

A six-sided drilling machine drills every face of a panel without turning it over; its price follows the drill heads, while your cost follows the smallest part it can hold.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 1 October 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Drill heads above and below

Each head is a block of vertical and horizontal drills. One above and one below is the entry build; two per side cut cycle time. Count drills per head.

Router spindles for grooves

Spindles groove for back panels and mill slots. A missing spindle sends parts to another machine.

Gripper and clamp system

Grippers hold the panel under the heads and set the smallest part the machine can drill. Drawer sides are where cheap clamps drop parts.

Single or double worktable

A double table works narrow parts in pairs; a single table takes wider panels. One listing states both widths for the same frame.

Barcode and software link

The machine reads a saw label and loads the programme. Ask which design files it takes and how the software is licensed.

Decode the model code.

In one listing, 612 in the model name matches six sides and a 1,200 mm width on a single table; the same machine takes 800 mm on its double table. Confirm width on the drawing.

612: 6 sides, 12 x 100 = 1,200 mm maximum width on the single table.

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 smallest part you drill: length, width and thickness of your narrowest drawer side.
The largest panel, usually a wardrobe side.
The hinge, connector and dowel patterns you use, and whether you need back-panel grooves.
Your design software and how labels are printed at the saw.
Parts per shift, which sets how many drill heads you need.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Drill your narrowest drawer side and largest side panel from real saw labels.	Both drilled without operator help, hole positions within tolerance on every face.
Assemble a carcass from parts drilled on the machine.	Connectors and dowels meet without force and the carcass diagonals are equal.
Time one busy part and one simple part.	Measured cycle times written in the acceptance report, so your output figure is a record, not a claim.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity naming 2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027, plus 2014/35/EU and 2014/30/EU.
A statement of which parts of EN ISO 19085-3, the standard for numerically controlled boring and routing machines, were applied, and the guarding plan.
Drill head layout drawing with every spindle position, and the software licence terms.

The one people forget. The drill head layout drawing. Your hinge and connector patterns must match the spindle spacing in each head, and without the drawing you only find a mismatch when the first cabinet will not assemble.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You drill mostly one repeated hole row for shelf pins and connectors.

A multi-row boring machine, which drills a whole row in one stroke for a small part of the price.

Most parts also need cutting to shape and curved edges.

A nesting CNC router, which cuts and drills the top face in one cycle, and add edge drilling separately.

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 · 4Four vendor pages for six-sided drilling machines, checked October 2026, advertised asking prices from US$20,000 to US$67,660 per machine. Asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 3Three specifications, checked October 2026, stated total power of 18.6 kW and 38.55 kW, spindles of 2.2 or 3.5 kW, minimum panels of 50 mm wide or 35 x 180 mm, and thickness up to 50 or 60 mm.
Arithmetic38.55 / 18.6 = 2.1, so the heaviest build draws about twice the power of the lightest.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Wood boring machine. Choose a multi-row boring machine if your holes are mostly straight rows and an operator can turn the panel.
Wood CNC router. Choose a nesting router if parts need cutting to shape as well, and drill edges separately.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Woodworking 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.

Is a six sided drilling machine from China worth it against a European one?+

Compare grippers, smallest part and head layout. If your narrowest drawer side runs clean, the rest is service, which you can price.

What should a six sided drilling machine factory audit check?+

Who builds the drill heads, how spindle positions are checked, and whether a machine is run with real panels before crating.

What CE documentation does a six sided drilling machine need?+

A Declaration of Conformity naming your serial number, instructions in your language with noise and extraction data, and the guarding described in the technical file.

Who is the EU importer?+

The business placing the machine on the EU market, usually the buyer. It adds its name and checks the conformity documents.

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