Cabin Interior and Electronics
Nothing Wrong With Gold Plating, Says Tanury
U.S. plating company says the price of gold is not the main factor, it is the labor involved. So it gives customers three times the thickness.

Tanury Industries of Lincoln, Rhode Island, is displaying its aerospace coatings and metal finishing work here at MEBA 2014. Performed “primarily for VVIP and VIP jet interiors,” according to chairman Thomas Tanury, the company provides finishes for “cup holders, lights, vents, inlays, seat-belt buckle covers, basically any metal part on the inside of an aircraft. Our claim to fame is quality and service.”

Exhibiting at MEBA for the third time, the company (Stand 640, U.S. Pavilion) recently provided the gold plating for the interior of a head-of-state Boeing 747 completion, but confidentiality agreements forbid disclosing details of the work, Tanury said. Nonetheless, gold plating is one of the company’s specialties among the more than 150 aviation finishes it offers.

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