FIMMA Brasil is the largest supplier fair for the furniture production chain in South America. The 2025 edition, the 17th, ran from 4 to 7 August at the Parque de Eventos in Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, the centre of Brazil's furniture industry. According to the organisers, more than 300 Brazilian and international brands took part and 20,750 visitors came through the gates, with around BRL 1.74 billion in business projected before the show — for a panel-furniture market like South America, this is the most concentrated equipment buying window of the year.
JESH DRILL did not take a stand of its own this time; we exhibited together with our Brazilian partner CNCtech Máquinas. Based in Garibaldi, about 20 km from Bento Gonçalves, CNCtech handles local sales and service for woodworking CNC equipment, and its booth at Pavilion E, Street 07/08 sat in the machinery area visitors pass first on entering the hall. The MSK10BL CNC multi-row drilling machine was the main machine running on the stand, with a six-sided drilling and milling centre alongside: vertical rows combined with horizontal rows on both sides cover face and edge holes in a single pass.
Three kinds of enquiries dominated the four days. Panel and cabinet factories asked about throughput for volume drilling, drawing their own hole patterns to discuss cycle time and changeover. Door and drawer-front producers asked whether a six-sided machine can finish five or six faces in one clamping. And service came up in almost every conversation: South American customers care less about the spec sheet than about how fast a spare part arrives and who can come on site. That is exactly why we exhibit with a local partner — we build the machine, the local team handles the response.
The photos record the stand as it was: the Pavilion E / Street 07 sign, the drill rows and extraction hoses during a live demo, visitors watching hole paths on the control screen, and the team with our Brazilian partners on the last day. Demand in South America is shifting from "do we need CNC drilling" to "what cycle time and how stable", and this trip let us line up the demo machines, the specifications and real order scenarios. Default configurations will be adjusted to local panel sizes next.
