A yr on from the debut of its first steel additive manufacturing product, DN Options has opened its first Additive Options Middle (ASC) in Europe.
The South Korean firm, which is the world’s third-largest producer of machine instruments, will run its international AM enterprise from the brand new 1,000 m² website Gütersloh, Germany. It already has two centres working in Changwon, South Korea and Chicago, U.S..
The Gütersloh centre will act as a hub for AM and CNC applied sciences and can provide coaching periods, stay demonstrations, and help for corporations launching or scaling their AM operations. A variety of DN Options machines, together with the DLX150, DLX450, DNX2100, DVF5000, Lynx2600, and DNM5700, are at present on website and shall be used to course of AM parts.
DN Options says the placement holds specific significance on account of its proximity to key provide chains, academic establishments, and companions, and builds on the corporate’s latest acquisition of German machine instrument producer Heller.
DN Options’ wider portfolio additionally contains CNC turning centres, milling machines, 5-axis simultaneous machining centres, mill-turn centres, and automation options. In a press launch, the corporate described AM as ‘a key component’ of its long-term company technique, which mixes additive and subtractive manufacturing applied sciences below a so-called ‘AM2CNC’ method. When it launched its flagship DLX 450 laser powder mattress fusion system final April, CEO Wonjong Kim commented that by 2030, DN Options is “dedicated to maximising the synergy between additive and subtractive manufacturing applied sciences.” The corporate believes its growth into AM alongside its CNC capabilities will present a bonus in development industries resembling aerospace, medical know-how, and semiconductor.
