The cutting room is the first potential area where apparel manufacturers undertake automation to ensure material utilization, process optimization and manpower reduction. Because the department handles fabric, which is the most expensive raw material in apparel manufacturing, it is the most vital step that carries the potential of fabric saving, resulting in cost saving and waste reduction. Every apparel manufacturer targeted towards long-term growth and profit, is now investing in automatic cutting room solutions. Team StitchWorld presents the 10 popular automated cutting room solutions providers in the fashion and apparel industry.
Lectra
Lectra is a world leader in integrated technology solutions – software, CAD/CAM equipment, and associated services with customers in more than 100 countries. Lectra’s expertise enables companies to achieve their long-term operational excellence and cost reduction objectives as it covers all aspects of pre-production and cutting. Lectra’s Modaris® V8 is one of the widely used 2D/3D patternmaking and grading solutions worldwide. Besides, Vector® is Lectra’s most powerful, rapid, and intelligent automated cutting solution in the market that guarantees a better throughput, optimizes production costs, and reduces the risk of error, and increases capacity.
India Office: Lectra Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangladesh Agent: Aamra Resources
Vietnam Office: Lectra Vietnam Co. Ltd.
Gerber Technology
Serving the companies for nearly half a century, Gerber Technology develops integrated software and hardware solutions for the apparel and industrial markets. The company’s solutions help more than 78,000 customers reach their optimum by maximizing productivity and minimizing errors and waste. Its products include pattern design software AccuMark that increases the throughput by 50 per cent. The company is also a pioneer in offering cutting room solutions. The new Paragon cutter HX Series cuts up to 7.2 cm (2.8 inches) of compressed material and is integrated with Gerber’s AccuMark® CAD and automated spreading systems.
India Agent: IIGM Pvt. Ltd.
Bangladesh Agent: IIGM Pvt. Ltd.
Vietnam Office: Gerber Scientific International (Vietnam) Co. Ltd.
bullmer
Bullmer is a specialist and supplier of innovative cutting technology. It has installed automatic cutting solutions for the textile and flat material processing industry worldwide for more than 80 years. The company is known globally for single- and multi-ply cutting applications, and the corresponding material handling and storage systems. Individual customer needs can be satisfied with cutting heights of up to 80 mm. The cutting machines are known for high efficiency and productivity in material handling. The patented knife-driven system of the cutting machine is replaceable and can be changed very quickly in case of a breakdown reducing the machine downtime greatly.
India Agent: Mehala
Bangladesh Agent: Uni Asia
Morgan Tecnica
Morgan Tecnica S.p.A. offers the largest and most modern range of solutions for the cutting room, handling systems, automatic spreaders, spreading tables, automatic cutters with different lay thickness, from 2.5 cm to 9 cm and plotters, software for CAD, Cut Order Planning, PDM and Virtual Fitting, strictly ‘Made in Italy’. The company’s Fox 50 spreading machines from the Fusion range of spreading machines can spread any kind of material, from elastic, light fabrics in rolls and open folded bundles. The double PVC belt allows laying of even difficult fabrics like Lycra easily.
India Agent: GA Morgan Dynamics
Bangladesh Agent: Eastman Technocrafts Limited
Vietnam Agent: Hoang Ma Co. Ltd.
FK Group
Founded in 1981, FK Group specializes in automatic fabric cutting, plotter textile, CAD, and fabric cutting machines. It offers a complete suite of software solutions, including spreading equipment, cutting room equipment. The Italy-based group offers “Super Jeans” and “Universal Cutter” that consume just 5.9 KW of electricity using Eco-Power technology, almost 5-8 times lesser than what is consumed by other cutters.
India Agent: Prospice Technologies
Bangladesh Agent: Wintex Resources
IMA
35 years of its cutting room solutions in the industry, IMA S.p.A. is an Italian capital company that serves the need of fashion and technical fabrics industries. IMA Italy’s Formula Evo Plus 919 can cut up to 10 cm compressed height. It comes with a modern human machine interface that ensures maximum reliability. The IMA Cutting Control Centre is the connecting link between the machine and the operator, which allows the user to program and better organize the work queues, displays and manage all the machine operating parameters while also monitoring the state of maintenance and efficiency of the machine.
India Agent: Macpi Trading India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangladesh Agent: Pacific Associates
Vietnam Agent: Nhabe Consultancy Technology
Eastman
Present in the industry with more than 12 decades of experience in the field of cutting room solutions, Eastman Machine Company needs no introduction. It offers industry’s widest range of handheld and manually-operated fabric cutting machines as well as a comprehensive line of fully automated, computerized cutting, spreading and plotting systems. The company’s Raptor 75x conveyorized multi-ply cutting system, equipped with a reciprocating straight knife cutter is capable of cutting up to 7.5 cm (3 inches) of compressed material.
India Agents: ALT and IIGM
Tukatech
Founded in 1995 by garment industry veteran Ram Sareen, Tukatech’s advanced software and hardware solutions help in streamlining operations, increase efficiency, and expand profits. It offers 2D and 3D pattern making, design, and manufacturing software, garment plotters, and automatic spreaders and cutters for production. TUKAspreader, compatible with woven as well as knitted fabrics, is equipped with a PLC-controlled, easy-to-use LCD touchscreen that gives the user the ability to enter all the parameters like marker length and ply count. The threading and rewinding of fabric is automated. Along with it is Tukatech’s CNC Automatic Cutting Machines which are capable of cutting up to 8 cm compressed under a vacuum.
Asia Headquarter: Gurgaon, India
Shima Seiki
Founded in 1962, Shima Seiki, a Japanese pioneer, offers a portfolio of computerized cutting machines and apparel CADs, knitting machines, inkjet printing machines and design systems to provide high quality and productivity in the fashion apparel industry. The company’s automatic spreading machine P-SPR2 can spread fabric of width ranging from 1600 mm to 1800 mm. P-CAM series multi-ply cutting machines can cut fabrics up to 20 mm in thickness, besides offering a wide selection of cutting widths – 160cm, 180cm or 200 cm. At present, Shima Seiki is popular in Japan for its technology, but the company is now taking its technology worldwide.
India Agent: Janaksons International
Bangladesh Agent: Pacific Associates Ltd.
Vietnam Agents: Shima Seiki Vietnam Co. Ltd. and Phenitex Co. Ltd.
Yin
Shanghai Yin Science & Technology Co. Ltd. produces CAM/CAD/CAS systems at its production base in China which is widely used in cloth, luggage, shoe & hat, automobile, aviation and furniture industries. It produces 600 sets of CAM/CAS systems annually. It is the first producer of body scan fit systems, automatic cutting systems, servo drive spreading systems, automatic leather cutting systems and other products in China. SM-I auto fabric spreader can handle fabric roll of diameter 50 cm and spreading width varies from 160 cm to 240 cm. Yin auto cutting machine HY-S Series can achieve a maximum speed of 60 m/min. The available cutting area is 5000 mm X 1600 mm and 9000 mm X 900 mm.
India Agent: Studio Next
