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Yarwood Leather eliminates risk
Yarwood Leather will brief visitors to Aircraft Interiors Expo 2008 about a forthcoming seat product carrying a groundbreaking money back guarantee
The company is so confident about its Supabloc product passing all relevant seat cover flammability tests, it will refund money customers have spent on their leather, if the substance is the direct cause of a product failure*. The offer is believed to be the first of its type ever unveiled in the industry.
Supabloc, which will become available later this year, is the result of collaboration between Yarwood, based in Leeds, northern England, and Pittards, another high-performance leather maker, whose headquarters are in Yeovil, in the south-west of the country. Originated by Yarwood, the product incorporates Pittards’ leading-edge Fireblock™
technology.
Yarwood managing director Matthew Nicholls said: “One of the biggest bugbears for people involved in seat manufacture for the aircraft industry historically has been meeting the flammability regulations, and we estimate about 40 per cent of the leather products developed currently fail at least one of the relevant tests. “But thanks to our state-of-the-art testing facilities in Leeds, we’re more than confident Supabloc will pass the examinations, including the vertical burn and kerosene burner tests, the latter being known as the seat oil burner test in the States.”
Mr Nicholls said Supabloc had been in development for about 18 months and one reason for the company’s belief in the quality of its product was its new, custom-built aviation burns test laboratory. The new burns test laboratory has a custom- made viewing booth with High Definition video, enabling staff and visitors to witness the tests in action and record the crucial parts of the test for later playback and analysis. The company plans to add thermal imaging later in the year, enabling
the customers to determine the heat flow around the cushion and determine which parts are subjected to the most intense heat. Mr Nicholls said: “We’re certain airlines, their interior designers and our other customers will find the money back guarantee very reassuring. Much funding has been wasted in the airline industry over the years developing leather-based seat products which never left the ground, as they failed the flammability tests, and Supabloc is a major step forward in ensuring this wastage becomes a thing of the past.” The unveiling of Supabloc follows Yarwood’s launch of its Supalite product at last year’s Aircraft Interiors exhibition. This is now a second generation seat constituent, with subsequent improvements including the ability to match its colour directly to any pantone reference and enhancements in the product’s cutting efficiency. Supalite has already been sold to several world- leading airlines and trials with others are planned. Mr Nicholls said: “Supabloc is the latest innovative product we have produced, but our research and development pipeline is now so well-established and strong that already we’re planning a dozen similar launches in the next decade. The new product is the latest evidence that we’ll continue blazing the trail in an industry sometimes lacking in innovation and sticking too much to doing things the traditional way. Its an exciting time at Yarwoods.”
www.yarwood.co.uk
Email:
aviation@yarwood.co.uk Tel: 0113 252 1014
*Subject to the leather being tested at an FAA/JAA/CS approved test house.
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