TRB chosen to supply materials for Airbus A380 luxury suites

 

TRB Lightweight Structures (TRB; Cambridgeshire, U.K.) partnered with Safran (Paris, France) to create luxury “Skyroom suites” for Singapore Airlines. Available on board five new Airbus A380 passenger aircraft, these private suites were commissioned to celebrate the airline’s 70th birthday, and they feature more than 100 different phenolic panels manufactured by TRB.

According to TRB, the project required the production of more than 100 different types of complex, press-cured phenolic panels in a narrow timeframe. Every panel also needed to be supplied with a cure graph, and to undergo vigorous quality assurance checks to ensure a high standard finish. The collaboration allowed TRB to showcase its management capabilities, TRB says.

“We are pleased to have been chosen for this opportunity to demonstrate our engineering skills in the development of luxury facilities on board the A380 – one of the most advanced commercial aircrafts of its time,” says Tim Harrison, technical sales manager at TRB.

Following the success of this project, TRB has also been chosen to manufacture more than 100 doors as part of an ongoing scheme to fit Skyroom suites to the rest of the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 fleet.