JCI does more than ‘cut-and-sew’
25/03/2015
Speaking to leatherbiz at the Future of Automotive Leather conference in Bordeaux on March 25, JCI’s senior manager for trim operations, Guido Gerits, said he corrects people when they call the operations he manages ‘cut-and-sew’. “A lot more than that happens at our plants,” he said. “We add a lot of value to the leather.”
He said that everyday examples include trimming the leather to accommodate stitching and putting perforations into it are among the everyday examples of these value-add services, but he also pointed out that JCI had also recently carried out successfully an ambitious project to create a ‘watchstrap’ design on the leather for seats for the PSA DS model.”
Based in Belgium, Mr Gerits explained that JCI currently cuts leather at five of its eight plants in Europe, with the Czech Republic and Romania the centres of this activity.
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