Luzzo Bespoke, a creative engineering specialist supplying highly-bespoke products to a range of customers in the automotive, marine, lifestyle and consumer luxury markets, has acquired a new Charmilles LASER P 1000U five-axis digital laser texturing and engraving machine from GF Machining Solutions, now United Machining.

The new machine, installed in early 2025, is proving to be transformative. It has increased and strengthened Luzzo Bespoke’s in-house design and manufacturing capabilities, and helped the company expand the range of 2D and 3D surface textures it can apply to machined products.

The machine, installed at the company’s 1000 m² manufacturing facility in Brackley in January 2025, is the first laser machine Luzzo Bespoke has acquired from GF Machining Solutions in its 28-year history. However, the company is no stranger to GF Machining Solutions’ machine tool technologies, having previously invested in a number of Mikron five-axis machining centres with integrated workpiece pallet changers.

Since 2022, Luzzo Bespoke has received request to produce laser textured patterns and details on complex 3D-shaped metal parts with concave and convex surfaces. To achieve the desired effects on such components it was clear that a five-axis fibre laser was the way forward. This ‘need’ was the catalyst behind Luzzo Bespoke’s LASER P 1000U investment.

“GF Machining Solutions were extremely supportive – they liked what we were doing and could see that we would be an ideal, UK-based, de-facto reference site for their laser technology,” explains Brian Challenger, Luzzo Bespoke’s managing director. “As a result, they offered us a great deal on a new LASER P 1000U and we decided, from a cost, machine specification and availability perspective, to place the order with GF.”

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