Leather cutting “two industrial revolutions” behind the times
07/04/2016
Speaking at the 2016 Automotive Leather conference that his company, a specialist provider of automated leather cutting technology, organised in Bordeaux on April 5 and 6, Mr Shurling said that in 2015, 90% of the leather cut for car seats worldwide were cut with dies. He pointed out that the information came from Willy van Looy, global director of advanced manufacturing engineering and cut-and-sew operations at Johnson Controls.
Mr Shurling went on to say that tanners or cut-and-sew service providers who insist on using dies have no way of eliminating gaps of about 3 millimetres between each die. “Eliminate those gaps and you can save about 1.5% of every hide,” he told conference delegates.
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