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(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

                                   

One Hardinge Drive
Elmira, New York 14902-1507
(607) 734-2281
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal executive office)

                                   

J. Patrick Ervin
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Hardinge Inc.
One Hardinge Drive
Elmira, New York 14902-1507
(607) 734-2281
(Name, address, including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                                   

Copy to:

David J. Murray, Esq.
Phillips Lytle LLP
3400 HSBC Center
Buffalo, New York 14203-2887
(716) 847-8400

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              Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to public: As soon as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes effective.

              If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. [  ]

              If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. [x]

              If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. [x] File No. 333-115595

              If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  [  ]

              If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. [  ]

              If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. [  ]

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EXPLANATORY NOTE AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

              This registration statement is being filed with respect to the registration of additional shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Hardinge Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York, pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. This registration statement relates to the same public offering of securities contemplated by the shelf registration statement (File No. 333-115595), effective on September 5, 2006, and is being filed for the sole purpose of increasing the aggregate public offering price of common stock by $10,000,000. The contents of the earlier effective registration statement (File No. 333-115595) are incorporated in this registration statement by reference.

              The required opinions and consents are listed on an Exhibit Index attached hereto and filed herewith.

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PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 16.  Exhibits

              All exhibits filed with or incorporated by reference in registration statement no. 333-115595 are incorporated by reference into, and shall be deemed part of, this registration statement, except the following, which are filed herewith.

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              Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Elmira, in the State of New York, on April 19, 2007

   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on April 19, 2007.

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EXHIBIT INDEX

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