ANA supports development of a safer way to store electronics in flight

All Nippon Airways (ANA) and two different Japanese firms collectively developed a fire-resistant bag that can be utilized to securely retailer private digital gadgets throughout flights.

This distinctive product created collectively by ANA, Kikuchi Sheet Industries Ltd (Kikuchi Sheet), and TOPPAN Company protects passengers, crew, and plane from the danger of fires brought on by overheated batteries in digital gadgets.

The hearth resistant luggage are already in use on ANA plane, together with plane operated by AirJapan and ANA Wings. 

To additional encourage hearth security, ANA will make the luggage out there for buy by competing airways and different industrial clients on ANA Buying and selling from January 2025.

A vital suggestion

ANA cabin attendants instructed the necessity for secure storage choices in response to latest incidents on different airways involving hearth and smoke from deteriorating or poor high quality lithium-ion batteries. 

The hearth resistant bag was deliberate and developed in response to their suggestions.

The collectively developed storage luggage are distinctive as a result of they mix TOPPAN’s FSfilm which releases a fire-extinguishing aerosol in response to warmth, and Kikuchi’s hearth resistant bag, which is designed to shortly and safely stop hearth dangers from digital gear that exhibits indicators of irregular warmth technology or deformation. 

The bag’s light-weight and compact design was designed for set up in all ANA and AirJapan plane.

ANA’s position in creating and deploying the storage bag displays the airline’s sturdy dedication to security as a prime precedence. 

ANA Group, Kikuchi Sheet, and TOPPAN will collectively start to increase gross sales of the hearth resistant bag and proceed to advertise initiatives using the most recent know-how to maintain passengers and crew secure.