A focus on the future at DIMF 2025

New entry-level, multi-tasking DNX 2100 mill-turn series launched at DIMF 2025

Key representatives from Leamington Spa-based Mills CNC recently visited DIMF 2025, DN Solutions’ biennial machine tool exhibition, held from 2-5 April in South Korea at the BEXCO Exhibition Centre in Busan, to check out the the latest innovations and ‘technologies for the future’ from one of the world’s leading machine tool manufacturers.

With over 50 different advanced machine tools, automation systems and software developments on view, DIMF 2025 proved to be a seminal event and provided DN Solutions’ extensive network of domestic and international dealers and distributors with a preview of the company’s future direction of travel and a ‘first look’ at a number of new, innovative and productivity-boosting technologies that DN Solutions will be introducing into its key Asian, European and American markets in the near future.

Tony Dale, Mills CNC’s Group CEO, said: “The event was a real eye-opener and had two primary objectives. As well as providing an ideal platform to showcase new and upgraded advanced machine tools, automation systems and digital solutions to distributors and dealers, DIMF 2025 was also used by DN Solutions as a ‘positioning’ event to demonstrate the scope and scale of the company’s ambitions, its impressive R & D capabilities and its ability to design and deliver high-end, integrated machining solutions for all machining processes.”

Pictured right: DN Solutions’ new DLX range of Additive Manufacturing machines at DIMF 2025

New machine tool technologies and solutions that, from a UK and Irish customer perspective, were perhaps not typically associated with DN Solutions — such as its DLX series of additive manufacturing (AM) machines and its DNC range of high-accuracy quartz grinding horizontal turning centres, as well as the company’s new laser waterjet and friction stir welding technologies — were on display, rubbing shoulders with the DN Solutions’ more ‘familiar’ and traditional machine tool technologies.

Impressive line-up of new technologies
The new machine tool line-up was impressive with pride of place going to DN Solutions’ recently introduced second generation DVF 5000 series of simultaneous five-axis machining centres, and its new DNX range of entry-level, multi-tasking mill-turn machines, that will be available in the UK via Mills CNC later this year. Further highlights included built-in turret motor technology improvements to its best-selling Puma 2600SY lathe series, making the machines faster, more responsive and more productive, as well as a new range of five-axis horizontal machining centres.

However, as the event’s theme suggests, DIMF 2025 was not just about showcasing new DN Solutions’ machine tools — innovative automation systems and solutions were also in the spotlight. Machine tools integrated with automated pallet systems, gantry loaders and bar feeders demonstrated how continuous production, achieved through lights-out, unattended operation, can dramatically improve every component manufacturer’s productivity, production efficiencies and overall competitiveness.

Pictured left: interior of new DVF 5000 (Second-Generation) simultaneous five-axis machining centre

Just as important as the machine tools and automation systems on view were DN Solutions’ advanced and customised software developments which included: the DPMS (DN Production Management System) operating software that helps component manufacturers organise, monitor and optimise their entire machining processes; and the iDOO RMS+ (AI Remote Monitoring System), that allows manufacturers to remotely monitor their machines’ performance and efficiency in real time.

Other highlights, including digital twin technology and DN Solutions’ machine tools operating with the latest CNC control systems from Heidenhain (TNC 7) and Siemens (Sinumerik One), as well as the company’s own CUFOS control, with its intuitive, smartphone-based user interface, all providing a glimpse into the future of CNC machining and ‘smart’ factory technology.

Mr Dale concluded: “DIMF 2025 was inspirational and provided visitors with a unique opportunity to see DN Solutions’ next-generation machine tools, automation systems and software developments — many of which will be introduced by Mills CNC into the UK and Irish markets in the coming weeks and months. The event also helped reinforce DN Solutions’ global ambitions and its commitment to design, develop and manufacture advanced technology solutions for a wide range of industry sectors and machining processes.”

He concluded: “DIMF 2025, set against a backdrop of rising market uncertainties, tariffs and disruptions to international and domestic supply chains, reinforced the need for component manufacturers, in these turbulent times, to invest in advanced DN Solutions’ technologies as a route to increase their productivity and process efficiencies and improve their overall competitiveness.”