Yokohama Rubber to exhibit at Aircraft Interiors Expo 2026

Hiratsuka, Japan—The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., announced that, together with its US sales subsidiary, Yokohama Aerospace America, Inc., it will participate in the Aircraft Interiors Expo 2026, to be held in Hamburg Messe in Germany over three days starting on April 14. The Aircraft Interiors Expo is a world-class trade show featuring aircraft interior products, related materials, and the latest innovative technologies. More than 450 companies from all over the world will exhibit at this event.

The YOKOHAMA booth will showcase the company’s lineup of aircraft lavatory products, including a prototype wheelchair-accessible lavatory unit and retrofit kits that can be installed in existing lavatories as an interior upgrade. These kits enhance the lavatories’ accessibility by upgrading both the flush switch and the faucet with touchless functionality. Yokohama Rubber aims to expand sales of its aircraft interior products by targeting aircraft manufacturers, airlines, aircraft maintenance companies, etc.

In addition to being a major global tire manufacturer, Yokohama Rubber is one of Japan’s leading aerospace products manufacturers. Since the 1980s, the company has manufactured and sold a wide range of products for commercial aircraft, including lavatory modules made from lightweight composite materials, potable water tanks, onboard stairways, thermal insulation materials, and honeycomb structural components. Yokohama Rubber has supplied approximately 17,000 lavatory modules for the Boeing 737 and 757 and continues to support those modules by supplying any needed repair and replacement parts to the airlines using them. Yokohama Rubber also offers custom-made replacement parts for airlines’ retrofit projects.