Method for producing a flat, flexible composite material, and corresponding flat, flexible composite material

A method for producing a planar resilient composite material that has a carrier layer of a resilient material, in particular in the form of a textile material, and a cover layer of wood veneer which is connected to the carrier layer and is more rigid in comparison to the carrier layer, wherein a structure configured in a form of a plurality of grooves is engraved in the wood veneer of the cover layer via laser engraving, so as to increase a resilience of the wood veneer of the cover layer, the method comprising:

• establishing a structure to be engraved in the wood veneer of the cover layer;
• importing the structure into a control apparatus of a laser engraving device specified in programming terms;
• arranging the composite material on a worktable of the laser engraving device such that the wood veneer of the cover layer of the composite material is located on a side facing away from the worktable;
• activating at least one laser head of the laser engraving device that is connected to the control apparatus;
• and
• engraving the structure in the wood veneer of the cover layer of the composite material via the laser beam generated by the laser head,
• wherein at least two laser heads of the laser engraving device that are connected to the control apparatus are activated so as to, via the laser beam of a respective laser head, engrave the structure substantially simultaneously in adjacent regions of the wood veneer of the cover layer of the composite material that are assigned to a respective laser head,
• wherein the laser heads are controlled such that in a first overlapping portion of the adjacent regions of the composite material the structure is engraved in the wood veneer of the cover layer randomly in part by the laser beam of the one laser head and in part by the laser beam of the other laser head.