A Portuguese hat factory uses laser cutters to shape visor panels, then sews stiff fabric into the crown for structure. The brim gets heated and pressed into a curve, dust is blown away, and quality checks happen throughout before packaging.
So over here he's die cutting visors, right? Exactly. If you come over here on the computer, you're going to see that they've actually laid out all of the panels, right? So if you come over to the machine, that's actively what's happening right now. We can see that the machine is cutting and it's very subtle because the laser is so precise. So this is, uh, definitely our sewing sector and, uh, where the magic happens. You can see that the front of the hat is very structured. They put this piece of fabric in which is very, very stiff, and when they insert it here along with the two panel that make up the front of the hat. That's how you get this very firm form on the hat. So this is the quality control, which is also really important when the cap is done. If it's not clear that the whole order is done, it goes back again to sewing part. Gotcha. You don't really realize that a hat starts off as a flat brim like this, and when it's put into this machine, that's where it gets the curve on the brim. This machine actually heats up the hat so that the plastic is more easily able to bend, correct? That's how you get the curved brim. So what that machine is doing is it's pressing it down on the crown it's shaping out the hat, and then this fan over here that's going really, really quickly is dispersing all dust, little threads, residue that's left behind on the hat. When it's all said and done, the hats are able to move over from here onto the line, and the end result is a beautiful hat, extremely clean.
