Tape Solutions for Aircraft Carpet & Flooring

Aircraft are an essential part of modern mobility worldwide and require advanced solutions to enhance efficiency, safety, and passenger comfort. Particularly during boarding and disembarking, as well as during flight, various stressors such as significant mechanical stresses, temperature, pressure, and dimensional changes to the aircraft structure, different surface textures, and other factors like moisture, dirt, vibration, or chemicals demand robust flooring tape solutions that deliver the highest quality, performance, and protection. Saint-Gobain® flooring tapes are industry-leading materials that provide added value, including time and cost savings, increased efficiency, and hassle-free handling, offering significant advantages beyond superior performance to manufacturers and MRO companies.

The Main Challenges Innovative Tapes Can Solve in Aircraft Flooring Applications

Saint-Gobain tapes have been proven as the leading solutions for more efficient aircraft operation and maintenance for many years. Designed with unique features and properties, these tapes help address the toughest challenges in aviation and provide significant advantages for various flooring applications:

1. Carpet Tapes: Our differentially coated UV-cured acrylic adhesive carpet tapes have been industry-leading for many years. Their unparalleled features, such as an excellent balance of adhesion and cohesion, easy repositioning, and clean peel removability that meet all safety requirements, provide strong adhesion to all carpet backings and are established as the leading solution for aircraft flooring.
    
2. NTF: Non-textile flooring (NTF) tapes must be moisture-resistant and provide strong adhesion to sub-flooring composite panels on one side and the back of vinyl, linoleum, or rubber coverings on the other. Saint-Gobain liquid barrier solutions, made with UV acrylic technology, offer excellent resistance to moisture, chemicals, and other stresses, making them the ideal choice for demanding conditions in aircraft flooring applications in wet areas such as kitchens or toilets.
    
3. Liquid Barrier Solutions: These solutions are used to seal gaps and joints in various aircraft components to prevent the ingress of liquids, moisture, and other contaminants. Our UV-cured technology offers significant advantages, as these pressure-sensitive adhesives create a strong bond to the surface and are also easy to remove and replace during maintenance or repair procedures.
    
4. Edge Protection Tapes: Special removable composite floor protection tape, designed to protect and seal the edges and gaps of composite flooring prior to carpet and NTF installation in the aircraft. The removable adhesive is resistant to liquid and moisture ingress, providing good levels of tack and shear, as well as excellent initial repositioning and clean peel removability, even after extended use.

Benefits of the Unique Biolink® Technology

Manufactured with special UV-cured acrylic adhesive technology, Saint-Gobain Biolink materials are solvent-free, highly resistant to moisture, a broad range of temperatures, most chemicals, mechanical stresses, UV exposure, and other environmental factors. These material properties result in various benefits, including:

• Saving time and costs through fast and easy application and repositioning
• Minimising maintenance efforts through clean-peel removability in one piece
• Preventing composite damage and post-treatment with tools
• Reducing risks of unwanted lifting of flooring covers through strong bonds and reliable edge protection
• Enhancing safety with materials and processes that meet aircraft quality and safety standards