Tape Solutions for Aircraft Carpet & Flooring

Aircrafts are an important part of today's mobility worldwide and require advanced solutions to improve efficiency, safety and comfort of passengers. Especially during embarking and disembarking of the plane but also during flight, various stressors like significant mechanical stresses, temperature, pressure and dimensional changes of the aircraft structure, different surface structures and other influences like moisture, dirt, vibration or chemicals require strong flooring tape solutions that provide highest quality, performance and protection. Saint-Gobain® flooring tapes are industry leading materials that provide added value like time and cost savings, increased efficiency and trouble-free handling that offer 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 proven to be the leading solutions for more efficient aircraft operation and maintenance for many years. Designed with unique features and properties, these tapes help to solve toughest challenges in aviation and provide significant advantages for different kinds of flooring applications:

1. Carpet Tapes: Our differentially coated UV cured acrylic adhesive carpet tapes have been industry leading since many years. Their unparallelled features like excellent balance of adhesion and cohesion, easy repositioning and clean peel removability that meet all safety requirements provide good 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 good adhesion to sub-flooring composite panels on one side and the back of vinyl, linoleum, or rubber covering on the other. Saint-Gobain liquid barrier solutions made with UV acrylic technology provide excellent resistance against moisture, chemicals and other stresses making them the ideal choice for harsh conditions in aircraft flooring applications in wet areas like kitchen or toilets.
    
3. Liquid Barrier Solutions: These solutions are used to seal gaps and joints in various aircraft components to prevent the ingress of liquid, moisture, and other contaminants. Our UV cured technology offers significant advantages as these pressure-sensitive adhesives create a strong bond to the surface, 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 floor, prior to carpet and NTF installation in the airplane. The removable adhesive is resistant to liquid and moisture ingress, providing good levels of tack and shear, as well as good initial reposition ability and clean peel removability, even after extended time of 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-, UV and other environmental stresses. These material properties result in various benefits that allow to:

• Save time and costs through fast and easy application and repositioning 
• Minimize maintenance efforts through clean-peel removability in one piece 
• Avoid composite damage and post-treatment with tools 
• Reduce risks of unwanted lift of flooring cover through strong bonds and reliable edge protection 
• Improve safety with materials and processes that meet aircraft quality and safety standards