DMG MORI announced the winning works in the 21st Cutting Process Dream Contest on 14 October 2026. All 63 submitted works are scheduled to be exhibited at the DMG MORI booth at JIMTOF2026.
DMG MORI announced the winning works in the 21st Cutting Process Dream Contest, which it organizes. Awards were presented in the Industrial Parts Machining, Prototyping and Test Machining, and Artistic Creation Machining categories. The works will be exhibited at the venue for JIMTOF2026, a machine tool fair to be held at Tokyo Big Sight from 26 October of the same year.
The Gold Award in the Industrial Parts Machining category went to Seiko Epson (Suwa, Nagano Prefecture) for its technology for machining 450 tapered holes with a minimum diameter of 20 μm with high precision and stability, as well as measures to suppress thermal displacement and tool runout during more than 100 hours of continuous machining.
Multiple awards, including Silver, Bronze and Gold, were announced in the other categories. The award-winning companies include 共和産業 (Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture), 石田製作所 (Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture) and 湘南オートカット工業 (Koza District, Kanagawa Prefecture).
According to the official announcement, all 63 submitted works are scheduled to be exhibited at the DMG MORI booth, where each work will be introduced during JIMTOF2026.