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

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

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A320s, a French airline based in

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. In 2015, Expliseat enlarged its product range to

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. In 2016,

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and Expliseat signed a buyer-furnished equipment (BFE) agreement for the supply of Expliseat's Titanium Seat with

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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

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in the

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. In 2017, during

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selected Expliseat to equip the seats of its

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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 airlines, as well as the needs of low cost or regional carriers on short-haul segments. Seat was selected by

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on 10

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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 single aisle market within the next two years. In 2020, Canada’s Nolinor Aviation has selected Expliseat’s TiSeat E2 on its Boeing 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 "Grand Prix" Sustainable Business, 2014 * Prix Entrepreneuriat

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Criteo, 2015 * Observeur du Design, Etoile, 2015 * Montgolfier Price, 2015 * INPI, 2017

References

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