In a scenario where customer demands can change at any instance and a large inventory can add extra bucks to the total cost, customization or JIT manufacturing is topping the charts. Founded in 1963 by Mario Roda and Cesare Beccari in the industrial heartland of Bologna (Italy), Bierrebi – acronym for Beccari, Roda and Bologna has perfect solutions for the cutting room and its latest offering – Crystal is the single-layer cutting system, which is the current need of the industry.
Initially, the race was to have multi-ply cutting to speed up the cutting for mass production, but as order sizes reduce, single ply cutters not only guarantee a perfect cutting process but also lead to reduced wastage, greater productivity and space saving.
Did you know that you can cut a suit in 9 minutes with only 500 watts?
Has the above question grabbed your attention…? Well, this not a gimmick, but is actually possible with Crystal. With perfection and assurance of ‘Made in Italy’ tag, Crystal, the company’s innovative single ply cutting machine, perfect for any type of fabric, does not require vacuum. It owes the same to its patented “double blade” cutting, which separates the material through pressure, without forcing the fibres or pulling the fabric threads.
Perfect for optimizing the cutting in sample making, tailoring, prototyping and product development, Crystal’s software is user-friendly, easily accessible and compatible with the most commonly used CAD systems. Moreover, the glass planarity of the cutting machine offers maximum flatness, eases laying and collection of the fabric and less friction. Its innovative retention system, an electro-magnetic retention using an ionizing bar, guarantees no tension, deformation or fraying of fabric. And the company claims consumption of less than 500 watts by this cutting machine to cut a suit, making it a ‘green’ cutter.
With more than 30 years of experience in the textile industry, Bierrebi Italia’s subsidiary Bierrebi International, headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina (USA), exports automatic cutting machines to around 30 countries all over the world. A well-established name in tubular fabric cutting, Bierrebi is eyeing a market with great potential – India, which is soon going to have the second subsidiary of Bierrebi Italia with the name Bierrebi Cutting Solutions based at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The highest number of installations after the US puts India in the spotlight for the company. “Most of the underwear and innerwear manufacturers are our customers in India,” informs Umberto Ferrari, General Manager, Bierrebi Italia.
Sharing its logic of choosing the southern region of India as its subsidiary location, the company reasons that the number of tubular fabric garments are higher in that part of the country, whereas the northern part – Ludhiana and New Delhi – is handier with open width fabric. “The reason behind success in South India is that besides having a majority of tubular cutting machines, Tamil Nadu is a major manufacturing cluster which produces large bulk quantities. This attracts even manufacturers from West Bengal and Ludhiana who have shifted their factories here. That’s why we focus on Tamil Nadu,” shares Ferrari.
Bierrebi is trying to widen its horizon not just in India but everywhere in the world, even in countries such as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Around 3,000 companies in Europe, the US, South Africa, the Far East, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Latin America and Canada have already installed Bierrebi machinery and with India as its new focus, the numbers are expected to increase significantly.
