Witnessing an increasing number of enquiries for automated cutting room solutions, Bullmer is proud to be a part of the growing market in Bangladesh and is hopeful for good growth this year. The mindset of exporters in the country is now changing to automation. Varying from complete cutting room solutions to investing in single automatic machine, an amalgam of automation can be observed in the country’s market. “Exporters are now oriented more towards automation, they want to lessen the number of people in the cutting room, improve the quality of cutting, increase the throughput and reduce the waste to save some money. We are very well prepared for these processes with solutions,” avers Reinhard Köhler, Area Manager, Bullmer.
The company mainly focuses on improving the factory’s cutting capacity and efficiency along with helping them to reduce the waste, and thus save money. “Better efficiency means less waste. If order pieces are cut in same order, the factory can achieve better throughput while sewing. It therefore improves the throughput by 15-20 per cent,” says Köhler.
The after-sales service is another critical area in which the company extends its support to its customers via their agent UNI Asia, with which their association stands strong for 13 long years. “If customer buys such an expensive machine, then it is quite understandable of them to want the machine to function for a long time and without any breakdown. There are many big names in our feedback bank which shows their satisfaction with the after-sales service,” shares Köhler.
With Bangladesh now automating processes to achieve targets, there are many Chinese companies who have mushroomed up to offer automated cutting solutions. These companies enjoy the advantage of offering a less expensive price tag than German machines like Bullmer. “Though our machines are expensive, it is worldwide known that German machines have best engineering. We have quality,” believes Köhler.
Bullmer offers some unique features in their machines like automatic oiling system which helps in reducing the consumptions of the spare parts. The patented knife-driven system of the cutting machine is replaceable and can be changed very quickly in case of breakdown which reduces the machine downtime greatly. “Chinese cutting machine providers and other competitors do not have this kind of facility. Unless they repair the head, the whole machine will be non-operational or alternatively they have to replace the whole machine head. But we don’t have to. This is how we reduce the downtime, the consumption of the spare parts and also the operation costs, hence in actual sense, we are cheaper than our competitors in the long run,” concludes Köhler.