Cabin Interior and Electronics
Carpet tiles now available with bizjet-level quality
Not so long ago, the owner of an executive Boeing 737 approached the aircraft carpeting specialists at Kalogridis International with a rather unusual reque

Not so long ago, the owner of an executive Boeing 737 approached the aircraft carpeting specialists at Kalogridis International with a rather unusual request. The floor of the foreign-registered airplane was covered in common stick-down felt carpet tiles, and he wanted the same thing in a replacement carpet.

Instead of dismissing the idea out of hand as not only impractical but perhaps aesthetically unattractive, and almost certain to fail any existing FAA fire-blocking codes, the carpet-makers at the Dallas-based company saw it as a challenge. The result is a new product that owner and founder George Kalogridis describes as. It is a line of carpet tiles, comparable to current aircraft carpeting in terms of price and quality, yet with the advantage of being more practical to maintain and replace.

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