CA BIN MA TER I A LS
Seating materials
Pill-free fabrics
aircraftinteriorsinternational.com
104 NOVEMBER 2019
ABOVE: BOXMARK OFFERS
NEARLY 300 STANDARD
LEATHER COLOURS
BELOW: COVERS TRIMMED
IN CRESPINO YARN
ARE GUARANTEED TO
REMAIN PILL-FREE
“ A guaranteed permanently
pill-free wool blend yarn”
INDIVIDUAL
COLOUR DESIGN
The aircraft cabin is the most important opportunity
for airlines to stand out from their competitors and
the best way to influence the brand experience of their
passengers. As colour is an integral component of cabin
design, Boxmark has developed an efficient programme
for custom leather colour designs that can enable
feasibility studies at an industrial level. In addition to
the personalised colour designs, the Austrian leather
specialist offers five leather collections in nearly 300
standard colours, all for the aircraft sector.
When the surface of a seat cover
becomes knotted, this effect is called
pilling and it can be common in
aircraft seats as passengers move
during flight. Lantal has developed
a guaranteed permanently pill-free
wool blend yarn named Crespino,
a high-performance, patented yarn
that is integrated in Lantal’s wool
blend seat cover fabrics. According
to Lantal the yarn has no influence
on the weight, feel, construction
or airworthiness of its fabrics
and extends the lifetime
and beauty optics of seat
covers, which remain
pill-free even after
years of cleaning.
A SOFTER FEEL
Engineered leather specialist,
ELeather, is working on a nextgeneration
material for aviation
seats, with a focus on customercentric
design. The design team
developed the material with an
emphasis on creating a softer
feeling material to improve
passenger comfort.
As engineered leather is
fully customisable, ELeather
offers airlines bespoke branding
and can match most colours
and grains to a
specific material
swatch of Pantone/
RAL colour reference.
The global aircraft
seat upholstery market
was worth US$1.12 billion
in 2018 and is expected
to reach US$2.33
billion by 2027
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