What Unimatic does

Unimatic is a privately-held industrial company founded in 1964 and headquartered in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota. According to available firmographic data, the company supplies screw machines and inspection equipment to industrial customers, placing it in the precision-machining capital-equipment segment. Screw machines — typically multi-spindle automatic lathes used for high-volume, small-diameter turned-part production — and inspection equipment are foundational tools for contract manufacturers and OEMs producing precision components. Unimatic operates with a small workforce of 11-50 employees, consistent with a focused, niche industrial supplier rather than a broad-line manufacturer.

The company's business model appears to be capital-equipment sales to manufacturing customers, though the available source material does not disclose pricing structure, distribution channels, customer segments, aftermarket service revenue, or brand-specific product variants. No management team, ownership structure, funding history, or financial performance data is publicly available, and the firm's own website content could not be substantively retrieved (only a verification/loading page was captured), representing a significant information gap.

Operating for six decades in a stable industrial category, Unimatic occupies a long-tenured position in the US precision-machining supply chain. The absence of disclosed strategic actions, leadership changes, partnerships, certifications, or product launches since founding means any forward-looking assessment must rely on industry-level inferences rather than company-specific signals.

Name

Unimatic

Website

https://unimaticinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1964

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Unimatic, founded in 1964 in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, is a privately-held manufacturer of screw machines and inspection equipment serving industrial precision-machining customers. The 11-50 employee company operates as a small specialized industrial equipment supplier.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Machinery & Equipment

NAICS

Machine Tool Manufacturing (333517), Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables (334513), Industrial Machinery Manufacturing (3332)

SIC

Screw Machine Products (3451), Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Machine Tools, Metal Cutting Types (3541)

akta.pro primary industry

Metrology, Inspection & Machine Tool Accessories (CMMs, Probing, Gauging) (IMAHADAK)

Keywords

• Screw machines
• Inspection equipment
• Precision machining
• CNC turning equipment
• Industrial parts manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Saint Louis Park

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel

Core offering

Unimatic provides screw machines and inspection equipment. The company supplies industrial customers with machining equipment used to produce precision turned parts, as well as inspection systems used to verify those parts. Its products serve manufacturing operations that require automated, repeatable screw-machining and parts inspection.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Renishaw: Renishaw is a broad incumbent in industrial measurement and inspection (probing, gauging, CMM), competing with Unimatic's inspection-equipment side from a much larger portfolio.
• Mitutoyo: Mitutoyo is a global incumbent in precision measurement instruments and metrology, providing alternative inspection solutions to Unimatic's offering across a much wider product range.
• Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence: Hexagon MI supplies CMMs, probing, and in-line gauging solutions — a broad-incumbent alternative to Unimatic's inspection-equipment business for industrial customers.
• Marposs: Marposs provides precision measurement, gauging, and process-control equipment for machine shops — overlapping with Unimatic's inspection side at larger scale.
• DMG MORI: DMG MORI is a broad machine-tool incumbent offering CNC turning and milling centers that compete with Unimatic's screw-machine customers' next-generation equipment purchases.

Direct peers

• Traub (INDEX Group): Traub specializes in single-spindle automatic lathes and screw-machine tooling, overlapping directly with Unimatic's product line for medium-to-high-volume precision parts.
• Hardinge: Hardinge is a direct peer in precision metal-cutting machinery, including turning centers and workholding products that compete head-on with screw machines sold by Unimatic.
• Tornos (Davenport): Tornos manufactures multi-spindle screw machines (historically via the Davenport brand) that are the closest direct substitute to Unimatic's core screw-machine offering.
• INDEX-Werke: INDEX produces multi-spindle automatic lathes and screw-type turning machines, serving the same contract machine shops that buy from Unimatic.
• Star Micronics / Star CNC: Star Micronics builds high-precision Swiss-type and multi-axis screw machines, directly competing in the small-diameter precision turning market served by Unimatic customers.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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