Singapore Airlines promotes leather heritage

30/09/2013
Singapore Airlines has chosen leather from Muirhead for its new business class cabin, and features the group’s Glasgow factory  - where the leather is custom dyed to match the carrier’s new corporate identity - in a video to promote the quality and heritage of the material.

An initial eight B777-300ERs will feature the new cabin products, which will also be fitted on Airbus A350-900s in the years ahead, with Muirhead leather in business class. The specialist low-carbon aviation leather product from Muirhead is fitted to 40 business class seats per aircraft, covering the seat-front and ottoman throughout the cabin.

Muirhead sales director Archie Browning, said: “We are very proud to continue our long-standing relationship with Singapore Airlines with this new supply agreement for its new business class product.  The new cabins are designed and constructed with a very exacting attention to detail, and the finished product will delight the most discerning of passengers.”

Muirhead sources hides within a 300-kilometre radius of its Glasgow headquarters, each with a carbon footprint of 6kg CO2, representing a reduction of 46% since 2004.