Transform your cutting room operations, optimize fabric spreading, and boost profitability with Pathfinder!

Automated Cutting

Automated Cutting

Take your fabric-cutting capabilities to the next level with our world-class single or multi-ply CNC fabric-cutting machines

Material Handling

Material Handling

Our range of automatic fabric-spreading solutions handles even the most difficult materials with greater accuracy and less waste

CAD - Automatic Pattern Nesting & Marker Making

Software

Automatic Pattern Nesting and Automatic Marker Making are just the start with PathWorks – Pathfinder solution for full-cycle business process

Who are we

John Hollo Pathfinder

Pathfinder is a leading manufacturer of innovative CAD/CAM technology for industries involved in On-Demand cutting of flexible and semi-rigid materials.

Since 1996 we have been providing automated cutting room solutions for the apparel, composite, furniture, technical textiles, and automotive industries.

Products include Single-low ply automatic cutters (plotter cutters); Multi-ply ply cutters; CAD software; Automatic pattern nesting software; Photo digitizers; Material spreading tables; Roll feeding devices and Automatic spreading machines.

Pathfinder has an international sales and distribution network supporting customers on every continent.

Our solutions

Furniture

Transportation interiors

Fashion and apparel

Technical textiles

Leather

Pathfinder offers advanced and innovative automated cutting solutions that meet the needs of various industries. Our solutions and expertise provide companies with increased efficiency, significant savings in material costs, reduced manual labour and improved product quality. Whether you are in the furniture, transportation, apparel, technical textile or composite industries, our automated fabric cutting machines are carefully designed to optimize and revolutionize the cutting process of any material.

Get to know the Pathfinder advantage

Advanced fabric cutting machines

Pathfinder’s technology and efforts are dedicated to providing the best cutting-room solutions.

Innovations created and implemented by Pathfinder:

  • The first solvent pigment-based piezo ink-jet integrated within the cutting head
  • First conveyorised automated whole hide leather cutting system
  • Offload display (OFD) (synchronised with Conveyor workflow)
  • Offload Printer (OFP) (delivering labels synchronised with conveyor workflow)
  • Vacuum Economiser™
  • QuickDraw™ Sharpening System (patented)
  • Mx-390 is the most powerful cutting system available
  • PhotoDigitising (patented)
  • First and only fully digital operator interface

Why Pathfinder?

Reduced operational costs

Increased productivity

Reduced down-time

Integration of practical technology solutions

Environmental awareness

Pathfinder offers several compelling reasons to choose it, including reduced operational costs, increased productivity, reduced down-time, integration of practical technology solutions, and a strong commitment to environmental awareness.

Single-low ply automatic cutters (plotter cutters)

The L-Series delivers a reliable and highly productive conveyorised cutting system that will dramatically enhance the speed of your cutting room.

CAD software

No matter what CAD package you’re currently using to replace flat patterns, you’ll enjoy the ease and simplicity of Pathworks® – a powerful CAD utility that allows you to transfer, import or create cut files in minutes.

Electronic digitizers

PathWorks® enables digitising of any two-dimensional shape from photographed, scanned or imported image files.

Roll feeding devices

There is a Pathfinder roll-feeding solution for every application.

Multi-ply cutters

The 16 models in the Pathfinder M-Series® range of automated fabric-cutting machines are known for precision, very high productivity, reliability, and lowest power consumption.

Automatic pattern nesting software

Optimal material utilisation can be achieved with PathWorks® unique nesting features.

Material spreading tables

The Pathfinder EasyLoader™ is a conveyorised table synchronised with the Pathfinder cutter, designed to increase productivity and profitability. 

Automatic spreading machines

To keep your business moving at top speed, Pathfinder manufactures and supplies a broad range of integrated material handling solutions, tailored to deliver impressive performance.

Testimonials about Pathfinder

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Both the company and its cutter convinced us right away and we decided to replace one of our machines with a Pathfinder. Since then, the cutter has been working without any problems for an average of 8-10 hours a day.

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Uwe Hübner
Production Management
ZCK Carbon and Cutting Tech
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The performance of the machine has been outstanding with labour requirements halving, cutting accuracy being excellent while achieving typically an 8% improvement in fabric yield.

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Graham Potter
Engineering Service Manager
RM Williams
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Our productivity has definitely increased. We would recommend Pathfinder computerised cutting machine as a reliable product that integrates easily with our existing CAD system.

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Anthony Halas
CEO
Seafolly
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The cutter is very user-friendly and requires very little maintenance. We have had very little downtime due to the durability of the machine as well as the quick and efficient Pathfinder support team.

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Harris L Brown
General Manager
Southern Classic Seating, LLC
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As our business grows and we outgrow our current capacity we will certainly purchase another Pathfinder because the quality, service and value are unmatched elsewhere in the market.

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Brent Fidler
President & CEO
outhern Glove Inc.
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The Pathfinder system integrated directly with the existing CAD software and over a short time we decommissioned both of the other machines as the Pathfinder has proven to provide the cutting capacity required (in replacement of both machines) with an operational cost 10 times lower.

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Ricky Cooper
IT Manager
Dunlop Living Ltd
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I quickly found out that the efficiencies we gained with your cutter have not only saved us time in our cutting and sewing but also allowed us to take on additional work because of the accuracy we are able to meet.

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Jim Kaiser
President
Kaiser Manufacturing, Inc.

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