Expliseat is an

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manufacturer based in

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, known for its very light aircraft seats, the TiSeat or Titanium Seat.

Development

Benjamin Saada, Jean-Charles Samuelian, and Vincent Tejedor created Expliseat in 2011. The company was registered as an approved design organization by

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in 2013. In March 2014, Expliseat has certified the first aircraft seat made of

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and

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at just 4 kg that offers a 50-percent saving compared with the lightest models made by other manufacturers like

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, Safran or

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which weigh between 10 and 11 kilograms. The same year, Expliseat has secured its first customer with

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on their

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Airbus A320 family, A320s , a French airline based in Toulouse. In 2015, Expliseat enlarged its product range to Regional airliner, regional aircraft. In 2016, ATR 72, ATR and Expliseat signed a buyer-furnished equipment (BFE) agreement for the supply of Expliseat's Titanium Seat with Air Tahiti acted as the launch customer. The lighter seat helps ATR operators to decrease fuel burn while allowing the carriage of more guests and cargo on board, it has been selected by multiple operators including major airlines like Cebu Pacific in the Philippines. In 2017, during Paris Air Show , Dassault Aviation selected Expliseat to equip the seats of its Dassault Falcon, Falcon Multirole combat aircraft, Multi-role Aircraft. The reduced weight of the seats will allow its Falcon aircraft to improve the range by 370 km or 25 minutes. In 2018, Expliseat has developed a new seat model, the TiSeat E2. While TiSeat E1 has attracted regional operators, Expliseat says that TiSeat E2 can satisfy the needs of medium-haul routes for Legacy carrier, legacy airlines, as well as the needs of Low-cost carrier, low cost or regional carriers on short-haul segments. Seat was selected by SpiceJet on 10 Boeing Boeing 737 Next Generation, 737 Next Gen and 25 new Bombardier Aviation, Bombardier De Havilland Canada Dash 8, Q400 aircraft in April 2018 In 2019, after Longview Aviation Capital Corp. agrees to Acquire Dash 8 Program from Bombardier Inc, De Havilland Canada announces Expliseat’s Ultra-light Seats as an optional feature for the Dash 8-400 Aircraft. The same year, Expliseat has also begun the Airbus Supplier Qualification process for the TiSeat E2 targeting to become a linefit supplier on the Narrow-body aircraft, single aisle market within the next two years. In 2020, Canada’s Nolinor Aviation has selected Expliseat’s TiSeat E2 on its Boeing Boeing 737 Classic, 737-400 fleet. Seats will be installed on Nolinor new Airline OWG. 40 per cent lighter than other certified seats, Prud’homme, the CEO of Nolinor, said the new seats will allow OWG aircraft to carry more payload than a 737-800

Customers

Expliseat have sold 50 cabins in 2017, list of Customers includes:

Specification

Awards

* JEC Innovation Award, 2014 * Titanium Application Development Award, 2014 * BFM TV, BFM "Grand Prix" Sustainable Business, 2014 * Prix Entrepreneuriat Mines ParisTech, MINES ParisTech Criteo, 2015 * Observeur du Design, Etoile, 2015 * Montgolfier Price, 2015 * INPI, 2017

References

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