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Aircraft manufacturers and refurbishers have long relied on Trevira® CS upholstery fabrics for two reasons.   First, passengers benefit from comfortable, breathable, flame-retardant seats that have low pill quality and high shape retention. Second, aircraft owners favor Trevira CS because it delivers abrasion and crease resistance, protection from the elements of wind and water, high elasticity, colour fastness and, ultimately, low-maintenance costs.

            Lantal is now, for the first time ever, making all the benefits of Trevira CS available in its Melsky® brand aircraft carpet. This should be of particular interest to:

·         Manufacturers in the process of selecting carpet fabrics for their new aircraft and desiring full regulatory compliance and low-cost maintenance; and

·         Refurbishers tasked with remodeling aircraft interiors and seeking to recommend to their clients the highest-technology, longest-life, safest carpet brand available.

    Not only is Melsky the only synthetic carpet brand that meets all FAA/JAA specifications (including those for smoke and toxicity tests) and that complies with ABD 0031, FAR 25.853 and BMS 8-236 E; it is also, in style and appearance, the perfect complement to aircraft interiors that already use Trevira CS upholstery fabrics.  For these reasons, Melsky’s polyester fibre composition provides performance far superior to that of carpets made from polyamide. Of course, Melsky is available in a wide variety of customized patterns and production runs. 

Superior Performance Compared to Other Synthetics
 

            Beyond providing aircraft owners with full regulatory compliance and offering passengers and owners the benefits described above, Melsky’s superior performance as a carpet is grounded in the following attributes of the Trevira CS fibre:

• Flame-retardant properties embedded directly in molecular structure – unlike other carpets, those composed of Trevira CS have flame-retardant properties that never decrease over the carpet’s lifetime.  In contrast, flame retardance is not an inherent, molecular property of the typical carpet.
  
   
• Stain-repellent – in tests and experientially, Trevira CS offers unsurpassed stain resistance.  Aircraft operators can easily remove even difficult acidic stains, such as those due to coffee, cola, orange juice or red wine.
  
   
• Low electrostatic charge – polyamide carpets, in particular, are infamous for giving passengers static electricity “shocks.”  In contrast, Trevira CS carpets hold significantly lower electrostatic charges (200 – 600 V electrostatic loading), thus reducing both the likelihood and intensity of such shocks.
  
   
• High abrasion resistance – the polyester fibre structure of Trevira CS provides abrasion resistance equal to that of polyamide.
  
   
• Simple cleaning process and short drying time – unlike other washable carpets, Trevira CS’s properties, including dimensional stability, color fastness, and flame resistance, are unaffected by washing and drying, even though Trevira CS brand carpets can be cleaned much faster than competitive brands. The bottom line:  no carpet is easier to clean than one manufactured with Trevira CS.

Whether your most important criterion as a buyer of aircraft carpets is maintenance cost, compliance with current regulations, safety, ease of cleaning or resistance to abrasion, Melsky brand carpet, manufactured from Trevira CS fibre, should be on your short list.

For further information on Melsky brand carpet and Trevira CS, contact Stefan Näf, Director Sales Aviation, +41 62 916 71 71, www.lantal.com or tick Reader Enquiry Card.