Footwear Industry
  • Footwear industry
    Industry Trends/Customer Challenges

    Cost Pressure: The shoe industry faces challenges with higher raw material costs, increased labor expenses, and supply chain uncertainties. Finding cost-effective cutting methods is a big challenge.

    Complex Materials: Shoes are made from various materials like leather, rubber, and synthetic leather, each with different properties. Cutting them correctly can be complicated, requiring adaptable cutting techniques.

    Precision and Consistency: Shoe manufacturing demands precise and consistent cutting to ensure high-quality and comfortable products.

    Small, Diversify, Customized Orders: Requires the factories must deliver the goods in time, in order to catching the "fast fashion" trend.

    Sustainability: The increased demand for sustainable footwear is a trend that is gaining traction in the global market.

    Digital Cutting Technology: Many shoe manufacturers are using digital cutting technology to boost production efficiency, reduce waste, and enhance product quality. This is a growing trend in the industry.

  • GBOS footwear industry
    Advantages of GBOS Solutions

    GBOS offers "One-stop Intelligent Cutting + Innovative Process Solution" to face challenges in the footwear industry, achieving efficient, precise, and sustainable production, and enhancing production efficiency.

    Comprehensive Solutions: CO2 laser cutter for any shoe components; Galvanometer laser marking/engraving/perforating/hollowing/cutting solution for any special customized effects and unique creativity; Auto line marking solution(replace traditional silk screen printing line); AI-Driven solution; Robot; etc.

    Less is More: Less labor, less cost, less material waste, and zero cutting-dies!

Materials & Samples
  • Shoe Accessories Laser Cutting
  • Shoe Accessories Laser Marking
  • Shoe Accessories Auto Line Marking
  • Shoe Mold Laser Engraivng
  • Robot Shoe Sole Glue Spraying
  • Sublimation Printed Fabric Laser Cutting
  • Auto Nesting for Regular Material
  • AI Leather Nesting
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  • Dec 10,2024
    New demand for athletic shoes in the running trend
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  • Nov 25,2024
    The Power to Protect, Labour Protective Equipment
    The market demand for labour protective equipment, as a solid guardian of workers’ safety, continues to climb. At the same time, the state’s increasing attention to production safety and the introduction of a series of related policies have put forward more stringent requirements for the production of labour protective equipment. Therefore, how to achieve efficient, accurate and environmentally friendly production has become a key issue for labour protective equipment manufacturers. 01 Innovative practices to promote high-quality development of the industry Aiming at this pain point in the labour protective equipment industry, GBOS launched the ‘Digital Cutting Center’ solution with his keen market insight and excellent technological innovation. The solution integrates ITS3-3012 AI intelligent leather nesting system, KC1660TT-3P digital cutting system and VC9-1616TT full-material multi-layer cutting system, which injects a strong intelligent power into the production of labour protective equipment. ITS3-3012 AI Intelligent Leather Nesting System: With powerful algorithms and learning capabilities, it is able to automatically optimise the leather nesting method, significantly improve material utilisation and effectively reduce leather loss. KC1660TT-3P Digital Cutting System: With precise cutting ability and excellent production efficiency, it ensures that the labour protection products can achieve double improvement in quality and production. VC9-1616TT Full Material...
  • Mar 30,2023
    Whole four days, customers get passion all the time!  Machines in this footwear exhibition(04.19-04.22): 1.  VC9-1670, Double heads async digital knife cutting+punching machine for shoe accessories materials.        Here, 6-layer TPU digital knife cutting. 2. V10-SCCD, VisionScan mesh upper laser cutting. 3. LA-GN1280TT-AT-SCCD, Double heads high speed auto line marking machine. 4. XXP3.2-180CCD, positioning hole process with laser marking. And, a set new machine in this exhibition! VC9-1616, Full shoe accessories materials digital knife cutting.          Among these, VC9-1670, LA-GN1280TT-AT-SCCD, VC9-1616 have been sold in this exhibitions! Thanks for your support, it’s a successful exhibition! Looking forward to meeting you at The 30th Guangzhou International Footwear Exhibition soon, during May 31st to June 3rd.
  • Feb 08,2023
    How far from manufacturing to “intelligent” manufacturing (above)
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  • Dec 17,2020
    The new era of intelligent manufacturing has arrived. Are you ready for the upcoming 2021? Give yourself a chance to occupy the market firstly and create a digital production workshop that integrates intelligence, automation and informatization. A LIVE STREAM ON FACEBOOK! Time: Fir Dec. 18th, 2020 10:10, GMT +0800 Aim to”More than just fast, faster than fast, breakthrough the last mile of smart cutting,” Let’s explore the cutting, line marking, punching, glue spray solutions together! And explore the cutting application together! Show equipment  VC9-1670T, Oscillating knife cutter, max cutting thickness: 18mm. GC850SCCD-P-EP, A machine for full-scene use, full-material use! Breakthrough the last mile of smart cutting. XXP3.2-180-CCD, High speed laser marking machine.                 V10SCCD, SCCD for contour extracting and cutting digital printing shoe upper.  R3, Smart Spray glue systems for shoe.     LA-GN1280TT-SCCD-AT, Double head async 5G smart auto marking line machine. ITS2, Smart nesting system.               VC9-1612, Small order, sample model.       Provide you fully a set of automatic solutions, and help your shoe factory enter Industry 4.0 before 2021! Help you enter smart die-less cutting; Inputting pattern, cutting, feeding, collecting, calculating all in one; Customized and more!
  • Nov 13,2020
    GBOS“Me”improve team continuous improve and develop according to market and customers’ demand. Develop a new auto marking line machine LA-GN1280TT-AT-SCCD specially for you~ Automatic device replace traditional silk screen printing line, as you known, traditional techniques use pens and screens to mark l ines. Their labor and consumable costs are high. But work efficiency and product quality are low. At the same time, it will cause environmental pollution during use. Therefore, more and more factories are looking for machines to replace manual production. GBOS Smart auto marking line machine has higher precision, double-head async cutting, higher speed. Widely used in footwear, garment, bags factories. You can see this follow samples. Machine functions: Intergrated loading materials, auto marking line, drying system, collect materials.                                Any cut parts, no need fixed placement position.                                Can make sure materials flat in working tabel, and the effects are more better. Contact us and discover more advantages!
  • Jun 07,2016
    “Smart double match, super material saving, fast feeding, automatic counting…” On January 12, 2016, Gbos Laser held the global new product launch for V8plus double head asynchronous intelligent feeder, which was themed on”born for shoe factory, intelligent tailoring”. The released new product is the 8th generation of “V” series multifunctional automatic feeding laser-cutting machine independently researched and developed by GBOS,with “Smart Tailoring” as the biggest highlight. Its superior functionsare mainly revealedin three aspects. First, crossed layout on the same pattern, fast cutting in different horizontal lines. Secondly, double head automatic double match fast cutting on positive and negative patterns; Thirdly, double head asynchronous, fast cutting for multiple parts patterns. As the eighth generation of enhanced flagship model, PLUS combines all excellent functions ofthe previous seven generations, with 35% faster speed, 10% material saving,and more superior and practical performance. As the survival environment is worsening for the traditional shoe companies, the industry is calling for intelligent production. This launch of V8PLUS is providing an improvement solution for the labor, efficiency, and cost issues intraditional enterprise transformation.
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