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More footballs per hide with Gerber technology

30/01/2014
More footballs per hide with Gerber technology
The Wilson Sporting Goods’ football factory in Ohio, US, has produced 800 official commemorative Super Bowl footballs using Gerber’s new Taurus II leather cutting system, which uses part-nesting strategies that the company says are 250 times more powerful its previous offering.

The cutter captures the hide and its flaw zones using a digital camera mounted above the cutter. The system’s nesting software applies algorithms to enable users to get the maximum parts from every hide, from which around 10 footballs are made.

Wilson factory manager Dan Riegle said: “We’re seeing as much as 10% improvement in yields as a result of Taurus’ computerised nesting capabilities.” 

The factory’s 120 employees produce 4,000 footballs a day and more than 700,000 each year. 


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