An automotive trim manufacturer in Montreal: testing its own carbon fiber parts before ordering

Luxwood Auto Trim Design is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It makes automotive interior and exterior trim and decorative parts, many of them small parts cut from carbon fiber sheet.

When Luxwood inquired in May 2020, its questions focused on practical production needs: How accurately could small parts be cut? How easy was it to turn DXF drawings into cutting files? Should carbon fiber be cut using pure waterjet cutting or abrasive waterjet cutting? What about pump noise, workshop space and the local 600 V power supply? How would the machine reach the door, and how would it be unloaded?

The team also wanted to try the software before buying.

Luxwood sent DXF drawings of its parts on the day it inquired. At our factory, we test-cut carbon fiber trim panels to those drawings and compared different methods of pure waterjet cutting. We sent the photos and videos to Luxwood so the team could judge the cutting quality using its own parts.

In June 2020, Luxwood placed its order.

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We also made a custom honeycomb panel for Luxwood's thin-sheet work and shipped it with the machine.

The machine was loaded into a container and shipped in July 2020. Luxwood's own team installed it in the workshop, with remote guidance from VICHOR engineers through photos and online communication throughout the process. We also helped set up the software and drawing conversion.

By 2022, Luxwood's production was growing, and the team planned to cut for around 10 hours a day. That year, Alenac, a railing manufacturer in Florida, wanted to speak with existing customers in North America before buying a VICHOR waterjet. We introduced Luxwood. This was Luxwood's reply to Alenac:

“We are very happy with Vichor system and service.”

“Maybe you are hesitant about buying such an equipment from China. We definitely were, but it’s been great.”

Marc-André Gerbeau, Luxwood Auto Trim Design · 25 July 2022 · Email