The Look Company Overcomes Textile Challenges With Its New Summa L3214 Laser Cutter
The Look Company is active worldwide in the printing business with offices and satellite locations throughout Canada, the U.S., Switzerland and the Middle East.
Each division has its particular focus, ranging from the production of sportswear to luxury goods and retail.
Since 20 years, their talented team of forward “look”ing people are obsessed about details and eager to create appealing, authentic and flexible solutions, tailored to the customer’s needs.
Their Canadian division owns a Summa L3214 that helps them achieve the set goals and to produce even better and faster.
When Summa Came Into The Picture
Last year, it was clear the company’s previous laser cutter needed to be replaced so they actively searched for a laser cutter, meeting their specific finishing and cutting requirements for textiles.
It turned out the be quite an extensive search. It was only when they came across a press release regarding the launch of the Summa L3214 laser cutter, that they finally found a perfect match.
The L3214 scans registration marks using trace with ease and proved to be the ideal workhorse to process stretchable textiles. What’s more, the cutter can do it on-the-fly where the machine cuts continuously while scanning in the next part. Simultaneously.
Roger Pennell, Director of Operations, Development & Supply at The Look Company explains: “The ability of the L3214 laser cutter to scan in registrations marks whilst processing the next part is a unique combination, which no other laser cutter in the market can do so well. Simply no other laser cutter met our requirements until we came across the Summa L3214”.
Fixed-Size Cutting Has Never Been Easier
The Canadian division of The Look Company is mainly involved in the processing of stretchable fabrics, fitting into rectangle frames specifically used in the retail market.
An accurate cut is paramount in this process, still all the more a challenge because of the stretch in the material.
Roger Pennell adds: “Summa’s L3214 takes on the challenges such as stretch on materials, fraying and speed flawlessly. Especially in the high-production environment we are working in, the L3214 proofs to be a true game-changer. The fabric rectangles are cut in fixed sizes accurately, rapidly and efficiently. It just all adds up. Similar to where the accurately cut fixed-size fabrics now fit perfectly in their frames, the Summa L3214 fits remarkably well in our high-volume production workflow.”
About Summa
Summa is a manufacturer of innovative cutting equipment that helps companies and people to finish their applications to the highest standards. Companies from all over the world use our cutting solutions for products in the printing, signage, display, apparel and packaging industries.
It is thanks to Summa's large network of valued resellers that we can deliver professional product advise and service worldwide.
Summa started In 1987, at a factory in Gistel, Belgium, that had assembled recording devices for the manufacture of precision optical lenses since the early 1970s, began modifying pen-plotters for the use in vinyl-cutting applications.
Today, the evolution of that company is Summa nv, formed in 1999 from CalComp Display Products nv. (formerly Summagraphics) and merged with CadCam Technology in 2018.
Along the way, they’ve revolutionized the printing and cutting technology and have become a recognized global leader in our industry.
